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- Price Fixing and Sotheby's
- Mackinac Center Champions Tax Cuts in Lansing
- Is Christmas Inefficient?
- Tank Heaven
- Making the Case for Liberty Stick
- How Does the MEAP Measure Up?
- The Michigan Union Accountability Act:
- IMPACT! Winter 2002
- MEA Forms Group to Attack Mackinac Center Research
- Michigan Education Report (2001-04)
- Remembering a Classic That Demolished a Myth
- Foundation Awards $480,000 to Mackinac Center
- Fix Michigan Schools with Proposal A+
- Don't Wait Until the War Ends to Roll Back the Federal Establishment
- Child Labor and the British Industrial Revolution
- An Alternative Proposal for Philadelphia
- State Provision of Internet Access: A Bad Idea Whose Time Shouldn't Come
- "Preserving" History at Bayonet Point
- Church's Campaign Against Sprawl May Do More Harm Than Good
- Gas "Gouging" Brouhaha Ignores Lessons of Economics 101
- The (New) Three R's: Recycling, Rationing, and Regulation
- Michigan Broadband Facts
- There'd Be No Thanksgiving without the Profit Motive
- Of "Gouging" and Gasoline
- Who Owes What to Whom?
- Four Principles and a Challenge
- Tocqueville, We Are Here
- The Case for School Choice
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, November 2001
- Cities Quietly Use Center Ideas to Help Solve Budget Woes
- Setting a Higher Standard of Accountability in Public Education
- Michigan's Prevailing Wage Law Forces Schools to Waste Money
- New Web Tool Enhances Accountability in Michigan State Government
- Is Michigan Public Education Improving?
- Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Re-Thinking Mandatory Minimums
- School Funding, Proposal A, and Property Taxes
- Research Institute Questions State Broadband Plan
- The State Should Mind Its Own E-Business
- Supply and Demand and the Labor Market
- Charter School Ousts MEA Union in Historic Vote
- Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy
- Reining in Ritalin
- Planning for Michigan's Urban Future
- Tax Cuts: Tonic for an Ailing Economy
- John Stossel: Freedom and its Enemies
- The Michigan Education Association's Sept. 27 Attack on Mackinac Center for Public Policy Research
- Slump Pushes Tax Cut Back into Spotlight
- "Maximum Wage" Law
- Why Energy Conservation Efforts Fail
- New Web Site May Help Inform Voters
- New Web Site May Help Inform Voters
- Freedoms Worth Fighting For
- School Finance Reform Lessons from Michigan
- Gold Reserves and the Dollar
- Cash-Strapped Motor City Needs a Budgetary Tune-Up
- How to Make Social Security Secure for More Americans
- "Streamlined Sales Tax" Just Another Government Grab for Cash
- Less Government, Not More, Is Key to Academic Achievement and Accountability
- Freedom, Security and the Roots of Terrorism against the United States
- Area students discuss terrorism
- Michigan Education Report (2001-03)
- Timely Debate Workshops Receive Massive Media Exposure
- Mackinac Center Launches Unique Legislative Information Web Site
- Setting an Example for Charitable Giving
- IMPACT! Fall 2001
- Tax "Fairness" and the Internet
- Privatization: Economies of School
- Politicians and Protectionism
- PBS Doesn't Tell Whole Story on Schools
- Drop the Microsoft Suit!
- Savings Rates and Living Standards
- Private Prepaid Tuition Programs Can Help Make College Affordable
- Mackinac Center
- State Land Use Planning: Less Is More
- Are We Going the Way of Rome?
- School Funding: Lack of Money or Lack of Money Management?
- Michigan Economy Needs to Join the Information Age
- "Comparable Worth" vs. Supply and Demand
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, August 2001
- System fails to educate students adequately
- Union Scam
- Enjoy Your New Washing-ton Machine
- With Pension System a Mess, China Calls Cato
- State's ante lands on the table
- A Month To Live in Infamy
- Germany and the Great Depression
- Why the Population Bomb Is a Bust
- Running on Empty: The Failure of Ethanol
- Local comment: Letting parents help pick teacher is a step in the right direction
- Private Property, "Overfishing," and "Market Failure"
- Political Labels Are a Poor Substitute for Critical Thinking
- Tax Rebates and Spending
- Conserve Gas: Scrap the Ethanol Program
- Markets, Not Mandates, Best Way to Set Fuel Efficiency Standards
- Let's Have Full Disclosure of Union Finances
- Michigan Settlers vs. Malaria, or How the Midwest Was Won
- Why Not Allow a Market in Vanity Plates?
- Schools in need run up debts
- Lavish meal or coneys all year? U.S. tax rebates pose hard choices
- Back to School
- Don't blame unions for Detroit's morass
- An Open Letter to Statists Everywhere
- Save Us from People With "Great Ideas"
- Currency and Inflation
- Listening to Truth
- Bond Prices and Interest Rates
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, July 2001
- Trimming School Budget Frames Spending Issue
- Mackinac Center Research Curbs Wasteful State Spending
- Incentives and Disincentives: They Really Do Matter!
- School Districts: Is Less More?
- Hall of Justice's Price Tag to Rise
- Certified Isn't Always Best
- Central Banks and Interest Rates
- A New Direction for Education Reform
- Fighting Urban Blight or Trashing Property Rights?
- Who will control schools?
- Navigating the Maze of Michigan's Sales Tax
- Economic Growth Is Key to Environmental Quality
- Myths of the 1980s Distort Debate over Tax Cuts
- Leave Land-Use Issues to Local Citizens, Scholar Says
- An Analysis of the "Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Administration Act"
- Education Leaders Council Changes Focus, Membership
- Clash in the States
- Separation of Powers
- Failing drug war requires new strategy
- Bill fosters a blight on property rights
- IMPACT! Summer 2001
- Government, the Media, and Youth Violence
- NLRB too slow to protect workers' rights
- Laissez Faire and Economic Growth
- Privatization: Road to Privatization
- Advancing Privatization and People
- Verdict Still Out on Term Limits
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, June 2001
- Environmental Protection and Economic Growth
- Vouchers or Tax Credits for Full School Choice?
- Local Comment: Old-Time Mayor Focused on Finance for City's Success
- An Anniversary All Michigan Citizens Can Celebrate
- Save a Life, Buy an SUV
- WNEM5 Report: Schools and Privatization
- Jeffords's False Parallel
- Bush's education package threatens local control
- Terms of Use
- It's Time to Give Overtaxed Americans a Break
- Future Detroit Mayor Could Learn from Motor City's Past
- Public Money for Private Charity?
- The Case for Keeping Taxes Low
- Alternatives to the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Greenspan and Gold
- Thinking Through a Successful Think Tank
- Choice program has few options for students
- Big state spending that brings small rewards
- The Case for Keeping Taxes Low
- Workers need a choice
- Voluntary Unionism: An Essential Part of School Reform
- Policy and Politics
- The Appeal of Socialism
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2001
- Privatized programs cut costs in public education
- Market Holds Little Risk for Privatized Social Security Accounts
- Homework Requires Teamwork--Between Teachers and Parents
- Canadian Health-Care System Is No Model for Prescription Drug Reform
- Mental Health Parity Could Decrease Access to Affordable Insurance
- Does the President Run the Economy?
- Voters Petition State to Investigate Financial Practices of the Highland Park Board of Education
- Michigan Education Report (2001-02)
- Mackinac Center Attorneys Champion Worker Rights in the Classroom and on the Beat
- Slow Learners
- Striking at the Root
- "Urban Sprawl" and the American Dream
- Democracy or Republic?
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, April 2001
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- State announces SmartZone locations
- School Choice Groups Team Up
- Deal Boosts Mechanics' Pay 37%
- Tax Cuts and the Economy
- Are Michigan Citizens Undertaxed?
- A School Board President Speaks Out
- Limited School Choice in Michigan: How Is It Working?
- A Reminder to Politicians: It's Not Your Money!
- Help for Redford Union
- Have Michigan Legislators Learned from California's Mistakes?
- Unions, Think Before Striking
- Campaign Finance Reform Must Recognize Workers' Rights
- "Gladiator" Should Remind Us of Lessons from Ancient Rome
- Working Capital
- State-Run Internet Job Boards: Wasteful, Redundant, and Unfair
- Cooler Heads Prevail on Global Warming
- Taxation by Other Means
- Must "Independent" Think Tanks Be Unprincipled?
- Privatization: Operation Privatization
- Should Michigan Become a Right-to-Work State?
- Keep the Electoral College!
- Redford
- Mackinac Center Guarantees $350,000 to Save Public School Teachers' Jobs
- Does Charity Begin at Home-or with Government?
- "Urban Sprawl" for Dummies?
- Electricity Deregulation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Michigan Senator James Couzens's Wrongheaded Opposition to Tax Cuts
- What Constitutes a Failing School?
- Labor strife may ground four airlines
- Celebrating the Achievements of Black American Entrepreneurs
- Voluntary Unionism Puts Interests of Students and Teachers First
- Parents Should Have More Options When Schools Commit Academic Fraud
- Prohibition-Era Law Is Example of Nanny State at Its Worst
- Mackinac Center: Engler Administration Unaware of Impact of Tax Favoritism
- The Case for Choice in Schooling:
- Michigan Education Report (2001-01)
- A Mixed Message to Children: Say "No" to Drugs, but "Yes" to Ritalin?
- New Year's Resolutions for Michigan's New Legislature
- Does Giving Government Unlimited Power Really Protect the Environment
- Failed E-Business Deal Underscores Futility of State Economic Planning
- Is the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Liberal? Libertarian? Conservative?