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1. 25 CCs of Adrenaline
2. Wine Sellers and Protectionism
3. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 21, 2004
4. Price-Fixing Versus the Poor
5. Unwrapping Privatization
6. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 14, 2004
7. Dancing Around Education: A 170-Year Waltz With Reform
8. Asian Food for Thought
9. Solve the Problem Any Way We Can
10. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 7, 2004
11. Intelligent Design?
12. Profit Has a Role in Public Schools
13. New Year’s Resolution: A Taxpayer Bill of Rights
14. The Changing UAW
15. Veterans’ Woes Illustrate Problem With Government Health Care
16. Slicing Municipal Golf from Government Balance Sheets
17. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 30, 2004
18. Ironic Choices
19. From Cranberries to Acrylamide — 45 Years in the Anxiety Industry
20. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 23, 2004
21. Bequeathing Freedom
22. The Legacy Society: Nurturing the Tree of Liberty
23. Patient Approach
24. Capitalizing Trouble
25. Michigan Needs to Become Freer to Become Richer
26. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 16, 2004
27. Undereducated Today, Outsourced Tomorrow?
28. The Granny Clause
29. Profit, Loss and Pluto
30. Lawrence Reed on Public Policy Principles
31. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 9, 2004
32. Son of Richard H. Headlee Comments on His Father’s Passing
33. Mackinac Center President Honors the Memory of Richard H. Headlee
34. Remembering a Giant: A Tribute to Richard H. Headlee
35. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: The British Connection
36. Fiscal Policy in Michigan
37. An Outsourcing Parable
38. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 2, 2004
39. From Arbroath to Austin
40. The Golden Calf of Democracy
41. Mental Health Care Reform Should Put Patients First
42. Should You Fear School Choice?
43. Just Pay Me Tuesday, Warren
44. Well-InformedVotes.org
45. Courts Limit Selective “Economic Development”
46. IMPACT Fall 2004
47. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 26, 2004
48. The Cause and Perils of Inflation
49. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, October 2004
50. Spending Fix?
51. Striking Out
52. Teaching by Example
53. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 19, 2004
54. Recycling Garbage
55. Gaining Ground
56. Bay Mills Charter Crews
57. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 12, 2004
58. Tax Cut Stories Miss the Picture
59. Fewer Students = More Money?
60. Storm Drain
61. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 5, 2004
62. Freeing to Choose
63. An Anchor to Windward
64. “Milking the Cow” of State Development Departments (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
65. Did Anybody Really Know What Time It Was?
66. Why Socialized Health Care in Canada Is Not the Model to Follow
67. Honoring John and Ranny Riecker
68. The Silver Lining to the Toyota Deal
69. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 28, 2004
70. Economic Development's Dismal Record in Michigan
71. School Board Self-Help
72. Translating Ideas Into Success
73. Should You Fear School Choice?
74. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 21, 2004
75. Counties Held “Hostage” to Wasteful State Spending
76. Mackinac Center Analyst Suggests Balanced-Budget Solutions
77. Charter Schools: Left Untried
78. Back to Budget Basics
79. Mackinac Center Scholar to Debate Michigan AFL-CIO President
80. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, September 2004
81. "60 Minutes" in September
82. Detroit News Editorial Reaches Same Conclusion as Mackinac
83. Outsourcing Benefits Michigan Economy and Taxpayers
84. Mongol Khan-Quest
85. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 14, 2004
86. Does Teacher Certification Matter?
87. County Tax Shift: It Quacks, It Waddles; It’s a Duck
88. Certifiable Numbers?
89. Labor Gains
90. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 7, 2004
91. Going Broke by Degree
92. The Record of “Economic Development” Policy in Michigan
93. When Politics Trumps Science
94. Shortchanging Michigan
95. U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Ohio’s Targeted Investment Tax Credit Unconstitutional
96. Union Members' Attitudes Toward Their Unions' Performance
97. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 31, 2004
98. Pivotal? Probably Not
99. Power to the People?
100. A State Gas Tax That Should Run Out of Fuel
101. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 24, 2004
102. Michigan’s Budget Deficit Calls for Structural Reforms
103. Carpenter Helps Build Jobs With Snow
104. Michigan Education Report (2004-01)
105. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 17, 2004
106. Student Debaters To Study United Nations Peacekeeping Resolution at Annual Mackinac Center Workshops
107. The Blackout of 2003 Doesn’t Justify Regulation in 2004
108. A Telecommunications Policy Primer
109. When Will Conventional Public Schools Be as Accountable as Charters?
110. Re-regulating Electricity Could Shock Michigan’s Economy
111. America’s Scientific Leadership Imperiled by Weakened Curricula
112. Free Markets Blossom in Vietnam
113. Democracy Isn’t Nirvana
114. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 10, 2004
115. Symbolic Victories?
116. Wetlands You Can't Bank On
117. “Milking the Cow” of State Development Departments (General Article)
118. The Real Lessons of Walter French Academy
119. Reform Efforts Can Bring Budget Solutions (long version)
120. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 3, 2004
121. Vindicating Property Rights
122. Make America Safer by Making Government Smaller
123. Detroit Schools’ Deficit Appears Linked to Adding Staff During Enrollment Decline, Says Analyst
124. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 27, 2004
125. Vouchers or Tuition Tax Credits:
126. Offshoring State Services Benefits Michigan
127. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 21, 2004
128. New Study Warns Against Re-regulating Michigan’s Electricity Market
129. Assessing Electric Choice in Michigan
130. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, July 2004
131. National Survey Suggests Union Workers at Odds With Union Officials Over Organizing Tactic
132. Checking the Premises of “Card Check”:
133. State Economic Development:
134. Playing Monopoly With Detroit’s Kids
135. Eminent Domain Extremism Runs Into Judicial Brick Wall
136. Union Subjects Religious Objector to Modern-Day Inquisition
137. Lansing Bureaucracy Threatens New Communications Technology
138. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 13, 2004
139. Cities that Cry Poverty Should Sell Their Money-Losing Ski Areas
140. Detroit Schools Should Take Advantage of Teacher Placement Program
141. When Will Conventional Public Schools Be as Accountable as Charters?
142. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 6, 2004
143. Are Targeted Incentives Constitutional?
144. The True Meaning of Patriotism
145. Michigan Privatization Report Spotlights
146. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 29, 2004
147. Cigarette Tax Increase Should Go Up in Smoke
148. Government Spending Lobby Has 200 Service Taxes for You
149. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2004
150. Is Affirmative Action the Right Fight?
151. Bob Lyons, R.I.P.
152. Competition for a Prize Launches the New Space Race
153. Lower Gas Prices by Scrapping Counterproductive Regulations
154. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 15, 2004
155. What Is Real Compassion?
156. Cut Train Subsidies to Re-connect Rural Michigan
157. Governor’s Water Scheme Is All Wet
158. Government Policies Make Gas Situation Worse
159. Strange Lessons in School Discipline
160. Analyst Lauds Governor’s Decision to Wait for Dioxin Data
161. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 8, 2004
162. Bioavailability Study Needed for Dioxin
163. On the Passing of Ronald Reagan, America’s 40th President
164. Education for All: Choice, Reform, and Optimism
165. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 1, 2004
166. Setback for Workers: Granholm Administration Doesn’t Want State Employees to Know Their Rights
167. Why Limit Government?
168. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 25, 2004
169. Cities Need Less Government, Not More
170. Home Schooling: An “Encouraging and Robust” Movement
171. Making a Difference for Liberty in the World
172. Cut Taxes on Smokeless Tobacco Products to Improve Health
173. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 18, 2004
174. What Can't Brown Do for You?
175. Groundwater Regulation Would Threaten Michigan’s Economy
176. AFL-CIO Says: Union Rules Hurt Us
177. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 11, 2004
178. 100,000 Public School Employees Near Deadline to Save $200 Each
179. Back to Basics: State Tax Policy and Economic Development
180. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 4, 2004
181. Recommendations to Strengthen Civil Society and Balance Michigan’s State Budget — 2nd Edition
182. Lawmakers Could Balance Budget by Cutting Spending and Selling State Assets
183. Jobs Outsourcing: Beneficial Trade by Another Name
184. Real World Entrepreneur Gives Economics Lesson to Government Officials
185. Wetlands Case Proves Need to Curtail Abuse
186. Are Jobs the Object?
187. Picturing a Successful Government
188. Forging Consensus
189. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 27, 2004
190. Privatization Could Have Michigan Seeing Green
191. Legislature May Give Away $1.6 Billion ‘Racino’ Windfall
192. Adam Smith's Principles of Sound Tax Policy
193. Earth Day, Not Doomsday
194. Adam Smith’s Principles of a Proper Tax System
195. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 20, 2004
196. No More Czars, Please
197. “Not Yours to Give”
198. Seven Principles for Selecting a New DNR Director
199. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 13, 2004
200. Victory for Free Speech Against MEA Lawsuit: Interview with Lawrence Reed and Joseph Lehman
201. Of Architecture, Philosophy and Individualism: The Alden B. Dow Story
202. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 6, 2004
203. Laptops for Sixth Graders?
204. Drain Code Bill Harnesses Unconstrained Tax Power to a New Environmental Mission
205. Time to Take Another Look at Teacher Certification
206. Remembering a Classic, and the Man Who Wrote It
207. Sinful Sin Taxes
208. Michigan on the Wrong Track?
209. Has Proposal A Been a Success?
210. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 30, 2004
211. Threat to Jobs Is Politicians, Not “Outsourcing”
212. China's Break from Serfdom
213. Michigan Education Association Sues Mackinac Center for Public Policy for Quoting the Union's President
214. Proposed Landfill Fee Really a Tax
215. Spurring Economic Growth and Jobs in Michigan
216. $1.2 Billion State Deficit Is Really Only $327.4 Million
217. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 23, 2004
218. Victory for Free Speech: Michigan Appeals Court Sides With Think Tank, Rejects Teachers Union’s Lawsuit
219. Brownfield Redevelopment and “Cool Cities”
220. Why a Statewide Property Tax Increase is a Bad Idea
221. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 16, 2004
222. Political Correctness Suppresses Education
223. Entrepreneur’s Son Gives Government an Economics Lesson
224. Seven Environmental Challenges Facing Michigan
225. The Taxing Power of Michigan's Drain Code
226. Michigan Can’t Afford Tuition Grant Program
227. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 9, 2004
228. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, March 2004
229. The Trade Deficit: Much Ado About Nothing
230. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 2, 2004
231. Why Are Mighigan's School Districts Borrowing More?
232. Privatize the University of Michigan (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
233. Michigan's Poor: How Much Do Numbers Alone Really Tell Us?
234. Michigan Consumers Will Lose if the Legislature Fixes Gas Prices
235. Granholm Would Resurrect Michigan’s Un-Dead Death Tax
236. Civil Society Is Working in Northville
237. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 24, 2004
238. Senate Majority Leader Sharply Condemns Regulatory Agency Power
239. High School Fiddlers’ Group Goes Private (General Article)
240. Why Are Schools Borrowing More?
241. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 18, 2004
242. Tax Shots Across the Budget Bow
243. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 10, 2004
244. What Impact Do Tax Increases Have on Employment?
245. Privatizing Air Traffic Control: Safer and Cheaper
246. In Celebration of Black History Month, 2004
247. MichiganVotes.org Assembles Database of Votes Lawmakers Missed in 2003
248. City of Saginaw May Trash Current Refuse Collection System
249. Rotary Tribute, January 28, 2004
250. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 3, 2004
251. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, February 2004
252. "Proposal A," 10 Years Later
253. Black History Month: Remembering Ralph Bunche
254. Alexander Graham Bell Meets George Eastman
255. Union President Praises Institute, Then Files “Don’t Quote Me” Lawsuit
256. More Privatization In Plymouth’s future?
257. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 27, 2004
258. Making the Grade
259. States Hiring Private Consultants to Manage State Property
260. Money and Red Tape
261. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 20, 2004
262. Mackinac Center Hires Former DEQ Director Russ Harding
263. Michigan’s Renewable Energy Program: Still Tilting at Windmills
264. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 13, 2004
265. Just Show Up, And We’ll Give You Better Grades
266. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 7, 2004
267. MichiganVotes.org Provides the Only Complete Description of Legislature’s 2003 Actions
268. Let Cintas Workers Make Up Their Own Minds
269. Why School Districts Can’t Save on Health Care
270. The Granholm Administration: A Review of Year One
271. Ask The Economist