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- Mackinac Center Environmental Analyst Russ Harding Urges Reform of State Dioxin Policy Following Governor’s Veto of Dioxin Testing Bill
- 25 CCs of Adrenaline — 2005
- Lewis Cass: Conquering the Wilderness
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 20, 2005
- Are We Biased?
- My Ten Years
- Michigan Education Report (2005-03)
- Mackinac Center Praises Proposed State Constitutional Amendment on Eminent Domain Passed Today by Michigan Legislature
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 13, 2005
- Cable Franchises Raise Rates and Lower Quality
- Credit Conundrum
- Hope and Opportunity in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
- Making Promises That Can be Kept
- Mackinac Center Praises Ingham Circuit Judge’s Dismissal of MEA Lawsuit to End State Funding of Bay Mills Charter Schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 6, 2005
- Advancing the Cause of Educational Excellence
- IMPACT Fall 2005
- A Success in Private Welfare
- Can Detroit’s Problems Be Corrected by an Emergency Financial Manager?
- Globalization: What a Wonderful World
- Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Flashy Projects Have Not Helped Detroit
- Debate Workshops Shine with Enthusiasm and Spectrum of Ideas
- The U.S. Supreme Court Should Support Michigan Landowners and Democracy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 29, 2005
- Africans Whom Westerners Should Heed
- A Taking by Any Other Name
- Morey Dedication Remarks
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 22, 2005
- Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced
- More Diplomas, More Ivory Tower Research Won’t Cure Michigan’s Malaise
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 15, 2005
- Telecom Policy Staff
- Michigan: The France of North America
- Around the State - Introductory Report
- Economic Malpractice
- Revitalizing Detroit
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 8, 2005
- Create Michigan Jobs and Lower Gas Prices
- Is There a Statesman in the House? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Federal Regulations of Mercury Emissions Appear Adequate
- Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Shepherding Freedom
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 1, 2005
- Michigan Must Lower its ‘Rent’
- Battle Creek: Don’t Make the Living Wage Mistake
- Taking Liberties
- Reading Privatization
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 25, 2005
- Stevens Worldwide Van Lines: A Michigan Success Story
- New Economic Development Program Risky, Unnecessary
- Organ Shortage
- The Organ Shortage and Public Policy
- School Choice in the Empire State
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 18, 2005
- Telecom Reform: The Right Call for Michigan
- State of the State
- Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2005
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 11, 2005
- Michigan Wetlands Cases Allow U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Federal Regulatory Power That Is “Too Expansive,” say Mackinac Center Analysts
- A “Little Rebellion,” a Great Man
- Peter the Great
- Louis Schimmel: Revolutionary Public Servant
- A Brief History of State Economic Development
- A Wisconsin Telecommunications Policy Primer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 4, 2005
- New House “Jobs” Bill Would Allow State of Michigan to Invest in Private Equity Funds and Businesses
- Decisions About Great Lakes Drilling Should Be Left to the States
- "Poor Choices" Yield Better Education
- An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened?
- Liberalism and Freedom
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 27, 2005
- Think Tank President Calls on President and Congress to Cut Federal Pork Rather Than Increase Deficit for Katrina Relief
- State Policy, Federal Policy and Human Capital
- IMPACT Summer 2005
- Privatizing Water Works
- Elections Are a Poor Way to Change Schools
- Transforming Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 20, 2005
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 2005
- Best-Selling Writer and Lawyer Philip K. Howard To Propose “Special Health Courts” in Lansing Tuesday
- Little Consensus on Mercury Recommendations
- Is There a Statesman in the House? (General Article)
- Taking Measures
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 13, 2005
- The Principled Case for Grilling Judge Roberts
- An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (General Article)
- The Michigan Legislature Should Finish Deregulating Telecom
- Improving Michigan’s Regulatory Environment
- Tuition Hikes at Michigan Universities Demonstrate Need for Reform
- Michigan Supreme Court Ruling on “Beachwalking” Erodes Property Rights
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 6, 2005
- The Northwest Strike and the Twilight of Organized Labor
- Forging Consensus Comments by George Clowes and Jay Greene
- Number Cruncher
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 30, 2005
- Pain Threshold
- The Minimum Wage Is Hardest on the Poor
- Private Scholarships: a New Beginning for Detroit’s Kids
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 23, 2005
- Scotland: Seven Centuries After William Wallace
- A Michigan Catholic School Remains Union-Free
- Michigan Needs to Jump Start its Economy with Tax Cuts
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 16, 2005
- Michigan Education Report (2005-02)
- MEA Goes Nuclear in Charter School Suit
- Retirement Planning for Social Security
- Where’s the Beef?
- Former DPS CEO Grudgingly Testified to the Benefits of Educational Liberty
- Legislative Sunlight — in Michigan and Elsewhere
- It's Called "the Initiative"
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 2, 2005
- Judge McKeague and the Cost of Confirmation
- Revised Great Lakes Agreement Should Be Rejected
- Supreme Court Ruling Shows Telecom Regulation Should Be Abolished
- The Sound of Freedom
- Survey: School Outsourcing Grows
- Furthering Freedom from Michigan to Mongolia
- Competitive Sourcing on an Individual Basis
- Proposed Water Legacy Act: A Bad Idea for Michigan
- The Price of Cool
- A Der Spiegel Interview with James Shikwati
- Is the NEA Really a NUT?
- Proportioning Water
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2005
- Voice of "Treason"
- Founding Disneyland: An Entrepreneurial Milestone
- A Governor Cries “Treason”
- A Dispatch from Mongolia
- Court Building
- The Privatized Accident Fund of Michigan Turns 10
- Money for Nothin’?
- The Sound of Freedom (Long Version)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2005
- Granholm’s Task Force Report: Wrong Prescription, Critical Disease
- Bad Food at a Good Price!
- Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
- The Parent Trap
- U.S. Supreme Court Vacancy Should Be Filled With Justice Dedicated to Rule of Law and Constitutionally Protected Freedoms
- Smoke and Terrors
- Education Policy in Okemos?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 28, 2005
- Sticks-and-Stoning Michigan’s Economy
- Property Damage
- U.S. Supreme Court Today Delivered Flawed Decision in Kelo v. New London
- Jen and the Art of Education
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2005
- Michigan Reforms Election Calendar
- Rally for the Classroom, Not the Budget Process
- Thatcher of the West
- Thou Shalt Have No Other School System Before Me
- Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2005 Edition
- House “Omnibus Budget” Overview
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 14, 2005
- Why Students Need “A Patriot’s History of the United States”
- Telecom Law in Michigan: Change, or Get Left Behind
- Dioxin Agreement Needs Sound Science and Protection for Property Owners
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 7, 2005
- Remembering Reagan
- The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Catholic Schools and the Common Good
- Schmeling K.O.’d by Louis! Louis K.O.’d by the U.S. Government!
- Jobs Tomorrow: Deja Vu
- The Good Old Days of Cheap Gas Are Here Now!
- Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 31, 2005
- "21st Century Jobs Fund": Lessons From the “Clean Michigan” Bond Program
- An Ethical Business Climate, or a Business Climate of “Ethics”?
- A Looming Charter School Re-Union?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 24, 2005
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2005
- Notes on Michigan’s Economy
- Coupons or Value?
- The Inspiring Story of Thomas Clarkson
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 17, 2005
- How Much Is Enough?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 10, 2005
- The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (General Article)
- Socialists at War
- Despite Governor’s Claims, Proposed Water Legacy Act Unnecessary, Existing Groundwater Laws Ample, Says Former DEQ Director
- Groundwater Regulation: An Assessment
- Charter Schools: 13 Years and Still Growing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 3, 2005
- Remembering George Sutherland: Defender of the Constitution
- Is the Governor’s Water Legacy Act All Wet?
- MEGA: 10 Years With Little To Show
- Abandoning Prison Privatization Will Cost Michigan Taxpayers
- Ann Arbor Trailblazers
- Catholic Schools and the Common Good
- Freedom and the Organ Shortage
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 26, 2005
- Great Lakes Legislation Ill-Conceived and Ill-Advised
- Multiplying the Power of Informed Citizens
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, April 2005
- Testimony by Michael D. LaFaive to the Michigan House Commerce Committee
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 19, 2005
- Limit Government; Don’t Run It Like A Business
- April 18: Another Day of Reckoning
- April 15
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 12, 2005
- Extensive Study of Michigan Economic Growth Authority Finds Weak Track Record and No Significant Economic Effects
- MEGA: A Retrospective Assessment
- Michigan’s Math Standards Receive a “C”
- Michigan Education Report (2005-01)
- Government, Poverty and Self-Reliance: Wisdom From 19th Century Presidents
- John Paul II: Affirming the Importance of Refuge from the State
- Breaking the Business Tax Deadlock
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 5, 2005
- Freedom to Learn: Rebooted
- To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question
- Her Own Personal Autoworld (Viewpoint of Public Issues)
- From Hospitals to Tsunami Relief: Lessons of Charles Hackley
- Judge Paul Gadola: A Win for the Federalists
- Wage Law: The “Right to Work”
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 29, 2005
- States’ English Standards Still Need Improvement, Study Says
- The Visionary and the Reactionary
- Right-Sizing Military Infrastructure
- No Cop-Out Left Behind
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 22, 2005
- Tax Breaks for Hybrid Buyers
- Happy Anniversary, Free Speech
- MEGA Promises Versus MEGA Realities
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 15, 2005
- Wetlands Law Mired in a Bog
- The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage
- The Price of Leadership
- Analyst: “Site Selection rankings provide only a limited picture of a state’s economy”
- Site Selection Rankings Are Questionable Indicator of Success
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 8, 2005
- A Quick Guide to the Scholarly Literature on School Choice
- A Fair Comparison: U.S. Students Lag in Math and Science
- Watkins Debacle Shows Need for Basic Education Reforms
- The “Payless Payday”
- Trying Too Hard to Be Cool
- Prudent Investor
- Job Search
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 1, 2005
- Her Own Personal "Autoworld" (General Article)
- To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question (Original Version)
- Government Encouragement
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 22, 2005
- Liberty at the Threshold
- David L. Littmann Encourages State Legislators “To Sort Wheat From Chaff” in Book “Price of Government”
- Reinventing a Broken Wheel
- 4M: The Real Structural Problem
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 15, 2005
- IMPACT Winter 2005
- School Budgets: A Crisis of Management, Not Finance
- Water Softener
- Borrowing Time?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 8, 2005
- “200 Pounds of Rock-Solid Muscle, Sir!”
- Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Liberty
- Creating Clear Signals on Telecom
- The Great Emigration
- By the Time I Got Back From Phoenix...
- How Ideology Perpetuates the Achievement Gap
- In Celebration of Black History Month, 2005
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 1, 2005
- Mackinac Center President Calls for Eliminating SBT Through Spending Cuts, and for Deregulation of Telecom
- Michigan at the Crossroads
- Issues & Ideas Luncheon, January 2005
- Regulating the Regulators: Adopt a “No-More-Stringent” Law
- Dare We Compare?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 25, 2005
- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick cites Mackinac Center
- Lansing Must Embrace Basic Reform Following the Watkins Debacle
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 18, 2005
- Revisiting Cobo
- The $200 Million Question
- Toyota Land Deal: Unequal Treatment, Awful Outcome
- Presidential Demeanor?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 11, 2005
- A New Beginning: Ending the Single Business Tax
- Michigan at the Crossroads
- Watkins Gets It Right
- Ending the Evolutionary War
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 4, 2005
- Jack McHugh Discusses the State Legislature's 2004 Tax Hikes on WAAM's "The Careful Capitalist"