All 2005 Publications

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1. Mackinac Center Environmental Analyst Russ Harding Urges Reform of State Dioxin Policy Following Governor’s Veto of Dioxin Testing Bill
2. 25 CCs of Adrenaline — 2005
3. Lewis Cass: Conquering the Wilderness
4. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 20, 2005
5. Are We Biased?
6. My Ten Years
7. Michigan Education Report (2005-03)
8. Mackinac Center Praises Proposed State Constitutional Amendment on Eminent Domain Passed Today by Michigan Legislature
9. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 13, 2005
10. Cable Franchises Raise Rates and Lower Quality
11. Credit Conundrum
12. Hope and Opportunity in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
13. Making Promises That Can be Kept
14. Mackinac Center Praises Ingham Circuit Judge’s Dismissal of MEA Lawsuit to End State Funding of Bay Mills Charter Schools
15. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 6, 2005
16. Advancing the Cause of Educational Excellence
17. IMPACT Fall 2005
18. A Success in Private Welfare
19. Can Detroit’s Problems Be Corrected by an Emergency Financial Manager?
20. Globalization: What a Wonderful World
21. Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
22. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. United States Army Corps of Engineers
23. Flashy Projects Have Not Helped Detroit
24. Debate Workshops Shine with Enthusiasm and Spectrum of Ideas
25. The U.S. Supreme Court Should Support Michigan Landowners and Democracy
26. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 29, 2005
27. Africans Whom Westerners Should Heed
28. A Taking by Any Other Name
29. Morey Dedication Remarks
30. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 22, 2005
31. Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced
32. More Diplomas, More Ivory Tower Research Won’t Cure Michigan’s Malaise
33. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 15, 2005
34. Michigan: The France of North America
35. Around the State - Introductory Report
36. Economic Malpractice
37. Revitalizing Detroit
38. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 8, 2005
39. Create Michigan Jobs and Lower Gas Prices
40. Is There a Statesman in the House? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
41. Federal Regulations of Mercury Emissions Appear Adequate
42. Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
43. Shepherding Freedom
44. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 1, 2005
45. Michigan Must Lower its ‘Rent’
46. Battle Creek: Don’t Make the Living Wage Mistake
47. Taking Liberties
48. Reading Privatization
49. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 25, 2005
50. Stevens Worldwide Van Lines: A Michigan Success Story
51. New Economic Development Program Risky, Unnecessary
52. Organ Shortage
53. The Organ Shortage and Public Policy
54. School Choice in the Empire State
55. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 18, 2005
56. Telecom Reform: The Right Call for Michigan
57. State of the State
58. Insurance Demagoguery Drives Rates Higher, Not Lower
59. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2005
60. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 11, 2005
61. Michigan Wetlands Cases Allow U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Federal Regulatory Power That Is “Too Expansive,” say Mackinac Center Analysts
62. A “Little Rebellion,” a Great Man
63. Peter the Great
64. Louis Schimmel: Revolutionary Public Servant
65. A Brief History of State Economic Development
66. A Wisconsin Telecommunications Policy Primer
67. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 4, 2005
68. New House “Jobs” Bill Would Allow State of Michigan to Invest in Private Equity Funds and Businesses
69. Decisions About Great Lakes Drilling Should Be Left to the States
70. "Poor Choices" Yield Better Education
71. An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
72. Does the Headlee Tax Cap Need To Be Tightened?
73. Liberalism and Freedom
74. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 27, 2005
75. Think Tank President Calls on President and Congress to Cut Federal Pork Rather Than Increase Deficit for Katrina Relief
76. State Policy, Federal Policy and Human Capital
77. IMPACT Summer 2005
78. Privatizing Water Works
79. Elections Are a Poor Way to Change Schools
80. Transforming Michigan
81. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 20, 2005
82. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 2005
83. Best-Selling Writer and Lawyer Philip K. Howard To Propose “Special Health Courts” in Lansing Tuesday
84. Little Consensus on Mercury Recommendations
85. Is There a Statesman in the House? (General Article)
86. Taking Measures
87. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 13, 2005
88. The Principled Case for Grilling Judge Roberts
89. An Agenda for the Next Mayor of Detroit (General Article)
90. The Michigan Legislature Should Finish Deregulating Telecom
91. Improving Michigan’s Regulatory Environment
92. Tuition Hikes at Michigan Universities Demonstrate Need for Reform
93. Michigan Supreme Court Ruling on “Beachwalking” Erodes Property Rights
94. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 6, 2005
95. The Northwest Strike and the Twilight of Organized Labor
96. Forging Consensus Comments by George Clowes and Jay Greene
97. Number Cruncher
98. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 30, 2005
99. Pain Threshold
100. The Minimum Wage Is Hardest on the Poor
101. Private Scholarships: a New Beginning for Detroit’s Kids
102. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 23, 2005
103. Scotland: Seven Centuries After William Wallace
104. A Michigan Catholic School Remains Union-Free
105. Michigan Needs to Jump Start its Economy with Tax Cuts
106. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 16, 2005
107. Michigan Education Report (2005-02)
108. MEA Goes Nuclear in Charter School Suit
109. Retirement Planning for Social Security
110. Where’s the Beef?
111. Former DPS CEO Grudgingly Testified to the Benefits of Educational Liberty
112. Legislative Sunlight — in Michigan and Elsewhere
113. It's Called "the Initiative"
114. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 2, 2005
115. Judge McKeague and the Cost of Confirmation
116. Revised Great Lakes Agreement Should Be Rejected
117. Supreme Court Ruling Shows Telecom Regulation Should Be Abolished
118. The Sound of Freedom
119. Survey: School Outsourcing Grows
120. Furthering Freedom from Michigan to Mongolia
121. Competitive Sourcing on an Individual Basis
122. Proposed Water Legacy Act: A Bad Idea for Michigan
123. The Price of Cool
124. A Der Spiegel Interview with James Shikwati
125. Is the NEA Really a NUT?
126. Proportioning Water
127. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2005
128. Voice of "Treason"
129. Founding Disneyland: An Entrepreneurial Milestone
130. A Governor Cries “Treason”
131. A Dispatch from Mongolia
132. Court Building
133. The Privatized Accident Fund of Michigan Turns 10
134. Money for Nothin’?
135. The Sound of Freedom (Long Version)
136. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2005
137. Granholm’s Task Force Report: Wrong Prescription, Critical Disease
138. Bad Food at a Good Price!
139. Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
140. The Parent Trap
141. U.S. Supreme Court Vacancy Should Be Filled With Justice Dedicated to Rule of Law and Constitutionally Protected Freedoms
142. Smoke and Terrors
143. Education Policy in Okemos?
144. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 28, 2005
145. Sticks-and-Stoning Michigan’s Economy
146. Property Damage
147. U.S. Supreme Court Today Delivered Flawed Decision in Kelo v. New London
148. Jen and the Art of Education
149. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 22, 2005
150. Michigan Reforms Election Calendar
151. Rally for the Classroom, Not the Budget Process
152. Thatcher of the West
153. Thou Shalt Have No Other School System Before Me
154. Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2005 Edition
155. House “Omnibus Budget” Overview
156. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 14, 2005
157. Why Students Need “A Patriot’s History of the United States”
158. Telecom Law in Michigan: Change, or Get Left Behind
159. Dioxin Agreement Needs Sound Science and Protection for Property Owners
160. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 7, 2005
161. Remembering Reagan
162. The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
163. Catholic Schools and the Common Good
164. Schmeling K.O.’d by Louis! Louis K.O.’d by the U.S. Government!
165. Jobs Tomorrow: Deja Vu
166. The Good Old Days of Cheap Gas Are Here Now!
167. Responding to Michigan’s Population Slide
168. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 31, 2005
169. "21st Century Jobs Fund": Lessons From the “Clean Michigan” Bond Program
170. An Ethical Business Climate, or a Business Climate of “Ethics”?
171. A Looming Charter School Re-Union?
172. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 24, 2005
173. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, May 2005
174. Notes on Michigan’s Economy
175. Coupons or Value?
176. The Inspiring Story of Thomas Clarkson
177. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 17, 2005
178. How Much Is Enough?
179. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 10, 2005
180. The Class is Always Keener on Our Own Side of the Street (General Article)
181. Socialists at War
182. Despite Governor’s Claims, Proposed Water Legacy Act Unnecessary, Existing Groundwater Laws Ample, Says Former DEQ Director
183. Groundwater Regulation: An Assessment
184. Charter Schools: 13 Years and Still Growing
185. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 3, 2005
186. Remembering George Sutherland: Defender of the Constitution
187. Is the Governor’s Water Legacy Act All Wet?
188. MEGA: 10 Years With Little To Show
189. Abandoning Prison Privatization Will Cost Michigan Taxpayers
190. Ann Arbor Trailblazers
191. Catholic Schools and the Common Good
192. Freedom and the Organ Shortage
193. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 26, 2005
194. Great Lakes Legislation Ill-Conceived and Ill-Advised
195. Multiplying the Power of Informed Citizens
196. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, April 2005
197. Testimony by Michael D. LaFaive to the Michigan House Commerce Committee
198. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 19, 2005
199. Limit Government; Don’t Run It Like A Business
200. April 18: Another Day of Reckoning
201. April 15
202. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 12, 2005
203. Extensive Study of Michigan Economic Growth Authority Finds Weak Track Record and No Significant Economic Effects
204. MEGA: A Retrospective Assessment
205. Michigan’s Math Standards Receive a “C”
206. Michigan Education Report (2005-01)
207. Government, Poverty and Self-Reliance: Wisdom From 19th Century Presidents
208. John Paul II: Affirming the Importance of Refuge from the State
209. Breaking the Business Tax Deadlock
210. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 5, 2005
211. Freedom to Learn: Rebooted
212. To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question
213. Her Own Personal Autoworld (Viewpoint of Public Issues)
214. From Hospitals to Tsunami Relief: Lessons of Charles Hackley
215. Judge Paul Gadola: A Win for the Federalists
216. Wage Law: The “Right to Work”
217. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 29, 2005
218. States’ English Standards Still Need Improvement, Study Says
219. The Visionary and the Reactionary
220. Right-Sizing Military Infrastructure
221. No Cop-Out Left Behind
222. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 22, 2005
223. Tax Breaks for Hybrid Buyers
224. Happy Anniversary, Free Speech
225. MEGA Promises Versus MEGA Realities
226. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 15, 2005
227. Wetlands Law Mired in a Bog
228. The Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage
229. The Price of Leadership
230. Analyst: “Site Selection rankings provide only a limited picture of a state’s economy”
231. Site Selection Rankings Are Questionable Indicator of Success
232. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 8, 2005
233. A Quick Guide to the Scholarly Literature on School Choice
234. A Fair Comparison: U.S. Students Lag in Math and Science
235. Watkins Debacle Shows Need for Basic Education Reforms
236. The “Payless Payday”
237. Trying Too Hard to Be Cool
238. Prudent Investor
239. Job Search
240. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 1, 2005
241. Her Own Personal "Autoworld" (General Article)
242. To Own or Be Owned: That Is the Question (Original Version)
243. Government Encouragement
244. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 22, 2005
245. Liberty at the Threshold
246. David L. Littmann Encourages State Legislators “To Sort Wheat From Chaff” in Book “Price of Government”
247. Reinventing a Broken Wheel
248. 4M: The Real Structural Problem
249. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 15, 2005
250. IMPACT Winter 2005
251. School Budgets: A Crisis of Management, Not Finance
252. Water Softener
253. Borrowing Time?
254. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 8, 2005
255. “200 Pounds of Rock-Solid Muscle, Sir!”
256. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Liberty
257. Creating Clear Signals on Telecom
258. The Great Emigration
259. By the Time I Got Back From Phoenix...
260. How Ideology Perpetuates the Achievement Gap
261. In Celebration of Black History Month, 2005
262. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 1, 2005
263. Mackinac Center President Calls for Eliminating SBT Through Spending Cuts, and for Deregulation of Telecom
264. Michigan at the Crossroads
265. Issues & Ideas Luncheon, January 2005
266. Regulating the Regulators: Adopt a “No-More-Stringent” Law
267. Dare We Compare?
268. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 25, 2005
269. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick cites Mackinac Center
270. Lansing Must Embrace Basic Reform Following the Watkins Debacle
271. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 18, 2005
272. Revisiting Cobo
273. The $200 Million Question
274. Toyota Land Deal: Unequal Treatment, Awful Outcome
275. Presidential Demeanor?
276. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 11, 2005
277. A New Beginning: Ending the Single Business Tax
278. Michigan at the Crossroads
279. Watkins Gets It Right
280. Ending the Evolutionary War
281. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 4, 2005
282. Jack McHugh Discusses the State Legislature's 2004 Tax Hikes on WAAM's "The Careful Capitalist"