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- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 26, 2006
- The Top 25 Current Comments of 2006
- Private Compassion is the Best Cure for Michigan’s Pain
- Driving Privatization Excitement
- IMPACT Winter 2007
- The Failure of Government Intervention: Buy Union this Christmas
- John Riecker Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
- Statesmanship Initiative
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 19, 2006
- Two Who Made a Difference
- Venezuela’s Destiny
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 12, 2006
- From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
- ‘Economic Icon’ Dale M. Haywood
- Incentives Matter, at Any Age
- Greeley and Bobsy: Wellsprings of Freedom
- A Shared Destiny
- Governor’s Mercury Proposal Lacks Sound Science
- Study Finds Cabela’s Has No County Jobs Impact
- Governor’s Mercury Directive Lacks Sound Scientific Basis
- Assessing Stricter Mercury Controls in Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 5, 2006
- Internet Policy Strictly a Federal Prerogative
- Businesses Taxes: A Pernicious Sham
- Property Owners Hit by Regulatory Takings Deserve Compensation
- Time to Get Serious About School Employee Pension Reform
- The AFL-CIO Picks the U.N. Over the Constitution
- Youth Violence and the Media
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 28, 2006
- Thankful for Think Tanks
- Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 21, 2006
- Michigan Education Report (2006-04)
- How Milton Friedman Influenced Michigan and the World
- Mackinac Center in the New York Times
- New York Times Story Describes Mackinac Center President as “Johnny Appleseed” of Free-Market State Policy Think Tanks
- In Memory of Milton Friedman
- Around the State 2006-02
- Proposal 5 Defeat Means Voters Want Changes
- Mackinac Center Launches New Science Magazine
- MichiganScience No. 1
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 14, 2006
- Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes
- Is it Smarter to Lower Michigan’s Investment Disincentives a Lot or a Little?
- Trash Talkin’ Politicians
- Michigan’s Gross State Product Plummet Shows Need for Changes
- Let Market Decide Tiger Stadium’s Fate
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 7, 2006
- Subsidized Art Isn’t Free Expression
- Proposal 5 and the Fine Print
- Bold Changes Needed in State Permitting
- Public Bans on Private Actions
- Arrest Pontiac Police Costs
- Don’t Expect Much From Politics
- Proposal 5: K-16
- Proposal 4: Eminent Domain
- Mission Creep: Prop 5 Cash Isn’t About Classrooms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 31, 2006
- Why Government Should Not Be in the Business of Subsidizing Businesses
- A Proposal for Property Protection
- It’s Time for Michigan to Go to Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 24, 2006
- “The Wire”: A Barbed Portrayal of Urban Public Schools
- Understanding Public Opinion Surveys (short version)
- Prop 1: The Forgotten Proposal
- Growing Up Means Resisting the Statist Impulse
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 17, 2006
- Choice and Accountability in Public Schools
- Woe Be Gone, Taxpayers
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 10, 2006
- The Flint Sit-Downs: A Striking Lesson
- Decades of Dollars and Disappointment
- Proposal 4 Would Place “Reasonable and Significant Restrictions” on Michigan’s Use of Eminent Domain
- How the Late Great Detroit Statler Lives On
- Environmental Doomsayers Can Breathe Easy
- Get Rid of the Labels
- Proposal 4: A Legal Review and Analysis
- Ending Cable Monopolies Would Benefit Consumers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 3, 2006
- “I Am Going to Arrest You”
- IMPACT Fall 2006
- School Choice Snapshot: A 2006 Survey of U.S. Policy and Advocacy Organizations
- Michigan: A Taxing Place To Do Business
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 26, 2006
- Universities and Economic Development
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 21, 2006
- The “Stop Overspending” Proposal Would Have Provided a “Meaningful Restraint” on State Spending Growth
- The Stop Overspending Michigan Initiative: A Review and Analysis
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 19, 2006
- Municipal Control of Franchising Inflates Cable Rates and Impedes Broadband Investment
- Yet Another Regulatory Burden on Electricity Supply in Michigan
- Assessing the Case for Cable Franchise Reform
- Hayek Was Right: The Worst Do Get To The Top
- Minimum wage hike claims first casualty
- A Superintendent Provides Choice in Edmonton
- Around the State 2006-01
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 13, 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 12, 2006
- Proposal 5 Could Aggravate School Finance Problems and Reduce Schools’ Incentives To Improve
- An Analysis of Proposal 5: The ‘K-16’ Michigan Ballot Measure
- Public Schools Can Provide a Choice to Every Parent
- Teachers’ Strikes, Court Orders and Michigan Law
- “What’s Going On” Redux: A Motown Classic Hijacked
- A Student’s Tribute to a Hero
- Michigan Education Report (2006-03)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 5, 2006
- Reforming America’s Secret Collectivism: The System of Compelled Union Representation
- An Unhealthy Policy Prescription
- Survey 2006: School Outsourcing Continues to Grow
- Jazzing Up Civil Society
- Mackinac Center Survey:
Michigan School Privatization Increases
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 29, 2006
- Want Economic Growth? Make Incentives Available to All
- Taxes Do Matter
- Frank Knox: Prescient and Principled
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 22, 2006
- Scientific Minds are a Terrible Thing to Waste
- A Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
- The Difference One Can Make (Original Version)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 15, 2006
- On a “Lost City” and a Lost Perspective
- "It Can Happen to You"
- Creating Compensation for Regulatory Takings
- A Blighted History of Property Rights Protection
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 8, 2006
- The City of Pontiac: a “Going Concern”?
- Tributes to Stephen P. Dresch
- The School Choice Movement’s Greatest Failure
- Michigan Dithers on Medicaid Estate Recovery
- Seeking Opportunity
- Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Seminar Provides a ‘Kelo’ of Prevention
- Twenty-Nine Seconds That Changed History
- Michigan Court of Appeals Ruling in Bay Mills Lawsuit “Terrific News for More Than 10,000 Schoolchildren”
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 1, 2006
- On Carbon Dioxide Emissions, the Supreme Court Should Look to the Law
- How to resign your union membership
- NEA, AFT Annual Meetings Resemble Political Conventions
- Summer of Privatization
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 25, 2006
- SOS: Sensible Spending with Taxpayer Protection
- Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (General Article)
- Gasoline Prices in Perspective
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2006
- The Price of Abandoning Principle
- Katz Roils Waters at U.S. Senate
- Romney Care: Bad Medicine for Michigan?
- Appeals Court Hears MEA Union Suit Involving Bay Mills Public Charter Schools
- Data Show Michigan is #1 in Resident Departures
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 11, 2006
- Government Putts
- Guidance Directives: Regulation by Bureaucratic Fiat
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2006
- IMPACT Summer 2006
- What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore: Remove Destructive Taxes
- Why Colorado Matters to Michigan
- The Property Rights Fight Since Kelo
- Character Makes the Difference (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- The Pursuit of Happiness
- Congress Seizes on Net Neutrality
- Restoring Our Heritage of Property Rights
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 27, 2006
- The Contemporary Litigation Environment
- A Convenient Deceit?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 20, 2006
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Attorney General v. Michigan Public Service Commission
- Court Properly Restrains Feds’ Worst Wetlands Excesses, But Ruling Could Ultimately Leave Federal Agencies With Broad Wetlands Authority
- Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part Two
- Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part One
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 13, 2006
- Wise spending pays for killing biz tax
- Is Every "Choice" a Good One?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 6, 2006
- Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
- Grover Cared
- Federal-Mogul Lesson: Get Rid of the SBT and Fix the Fundamentals
- Double-but-Nothing: More Education Spending Hasn't Yielded Better Results
- Making State Agencies More Accountable
- Detroit Should Sell Tiger Stadium As Is
- Memorial Day: for the Love of Liberty
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 30, 2006
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, May 2006
- Character Makes All the Difference in the World
- Michigan Education Report (2006-02)
- Michigan Should End Its Tax Favoritism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 23, 2006
- Sinking fund legislation could balloon local property tax millages
- Secret Ballot?
- Mackinac Center President Comments on Passing of Herbert D. Doan, Chairman of the Dow Foundation
- Municipal Finance Expert Louis Schimmel Joins Mackinac Center
- City of Sylvan Lake
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 16, 2006
- State College Money Should Follow Students, Not Lobbyists
- The State of the Great Lakes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 9, 2006
- Union Monitor
- The Wrong and Right Approaches to Michigan’s Economic Malaise
- Fair Share Plans Are Anything But
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 2, 2006
- 42 Days of Infamy? (General Article)
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Education Association v. Superintendent of Public Instruction et al
- 42 Days of Infamy? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Great Values, Great Movies
- Averaging Our Way to Average (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- How Big Is Bush’s Big Government?
- A Voter’s Checklist for School Elections
- Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in MEA Lawsuit Involving Bay Mills Charter Schools
- Law of the Land
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 25, 2006
- MEGA Grant Requests: What Companies Say
- Earth Day in Michigan: Room To Celebrate
- The Final Phase of the Great Depression
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 18, 2006
- A Window Into Lawmakers’ Souls
- Around the State
- Federal Mogul: More Evidence that “Targeted Incentives” Don't Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 11, 2006
- The Best Way To Support the Arts
- Regulation’s Real-World Impact
- The Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative: “Enlightened Self-Interest”
- A Magnificent Exposition
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 4, 2006
- An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- How To Replace the SBT With Nothing (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Protecting Art From Politicians
- An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy
- Replacing the Single Business Tax With – Nothing
- Support the Arts: Just Don’t Use Other People’s Money
- IMPACT Winter/Spring 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 28, 2006
- MSAs Increase Freedom and Choice
- Irony in Ironwood
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 21, 2006
- Michigan’s Lemon Industrial Policy
- Testimony of Diane Katz Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Happy Anniversary, Free Speech!
- The Downside of a Minimum Wage Increase
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 14, 2006
- Entertaining Art: To Tax or Not To Tax — That Is the Question
- Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
- MESSA Reference Page
- Melville W. Fuller: A Model Chief Justice
- Time to Revive Competition in Electricity Supply
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 7, 2006
- Michigan Education Report (2006-01)
- Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2006 Edition
- Proposed Limitations and Expansions of Government
- Michigan’s Russian Roulette
- Change To Win What?
- A Supreme Court To Be Proud Of
- Putting the Government's Cart Before the People's Horse
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 28, 2006
- How To Replace the SBT With Nothing
- Michigan Can't Afford the Status Quo
- Around the State
- The Money Myth
- Today’s Oral Arguments in U.S. Supreme Court Wetlands Cases Suggest Court Is “Concerned About Federal Encroachment”
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 21, 2006
- Michigan Cases in U.S. Supreme Court To Define Scope of Federal Wetlands Regulation
- Corn Flakes and Greatness
- Celebrating Black History Month, 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 14, 2006
- Patterson: Blow Up the Single Business Tax
- The State of the Michigan Economy
- We’ve Only Just Begun?
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, February 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 7, 2006
- Supporting Companies That Oppose Eminent Domain Abuse
- Banks and Credit Unions: The Unlevel Playing Field
- Government Broadband: Unnecessary and Unfair
- Government Golf: Unfair Competition Hurts Business, Taxpayers
- Parents Still Have an Option to Check Kids’ Safety
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 31, 2006
- Change To Win What?
- Past as Prologue: Will We Learn From History?
- State of the Statist
- Around the State
- Mackinac Center To Tally New Granholm Initiatives Tonight
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 24, 2006
- Time to Park Old Thinking
- The Great Communicator
- Takeover of Detroit Schools Shows Few Intended Results
- Mackinac Center Reiterates Its Policy on Toyota Land Case
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 17, 2006
- The First Phase of the Great Depression
- Keeping the Lights on for Privatization
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in DPG York v. Michigan
- Mackinac Center Files Legal Brief in Toyota Land Case
- Navigating Wetlands to the Supreme Court
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 10, 2006
- Wal-Mart Exposes Contradictions on the Left
- New Data Shows Michigan Citizens Still Fleeing State
- Demography is Destiny
- The Sun Sets on “Opportunity Scholarships” in the Sunshine State
- An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 3, 2006
- Happy 300th Birthday, Ben!
- Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced (Viewpoint on Policy Issues)
- Public Pension Plans Need To Reflect Reality
- Michigan Landowners To Be Heard at U.S. Supreme Court