Mackinac Center Praises the End of Ineffective Subsidy Program
Reapproved vetoed funds puts final budget above 10-year average
Partisan interpretations of economic data harms policy development
The Mackinac Center is pleased to host a Q&A with Grover Norquist to discuss these issues and more. The conversation will cover tax, regulatory and political changes at the state and federal level and what big issues are on the horizon.
A conflict between a Republican Legislature and a Democratic governor led to restrained growth in the state budget.
Michigan has reformed some of the many licenses it requires for people to hold a job. Lawmakers should continue that work in the new year.
A set of regulations and laws that a high school student proposed as part of a biology class suggests that Michigan schools should take a closer look at the environmental impact of renewable energy sources when teaching about the benefits.
December 6 MichiganVotes Roll Call Report
Meticulous administrative rules can make criminals of the well-intended
Online schools can benefit teachers too
New report highlights the problems with regulatory crimes
This report explains why assigning criminal penalties to administrative rules and regulations should worry anyone concerned about the rule of law and the potential for abuse in the administration of criminal justice. It describes several reasons why allowing administrative agencies determine what is criminal behavior is problematic, using examples from Michigan’s administrative rules. It also outlines some basic principles that should help guide efforts to reform Michigan’s regulatory code and practice.
State continues to loosen up licensing laws
A special edition of MichiganVotes
Western provinces rely heavily on energy-intensive industries
Political debate should be an attempt to persuade, not overcome
November 15 MichiganVotes Roll Call Report
Entrepreneurs drive employment and prosperity
MLive errs in comparison of academic performance
Not all families can afford adequate transportation to access better schools
The debate has reinforced the blue-green divide
Without the Legislature’s timely intervention, the commission’s decision threatened to make it more difficult for cancer patients in rural areas of Michigan to access this treatment.
Some Michigan classrooms lack a teacher with full credentials, even though many people with teaching credentials aren’t teaching. Rather than focusing heavily on producing more teachers, the state should find ways to entice some of those teachers into the classroom.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was right to veto funding for the Pure Michigan advertising campaign in the new state budget.
November 8 MichiganVotes Roll Call Report
Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue could overturn Blaine amendments
Efforts to eliminate flavored cigarettes or vaping products won't succeed
Reforms will help improve public safety
Plan would reduce barriers to school choice for low-income families
Michigan could support low-income families’ efforts to transport their children to better schools and boost these children’s chances for upward socioeconomic mobility by creating Student Mobility Scholarships. A transportation scholarship plan is rooted in the idea of providing a more level playing field for Michigan's most economically disadvantaged families. The idea is for the state to assist qualifying families in paying some of the costs incurred from transporting a student to a school of their choice.
Budgets generate a lot of conflict, but not a lot of partisan spending
November 1 MichiganVotes roll call report
