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1. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 26, 2006
2. The Top 25 Current Comments of 2006
3. Private Compassion is the Best Cure for Michigan’s Pain
4. Driving Privatization Excitement
5. IMPACT Winter 2007
6. The Failure of Government Intervention: Buy Union this Christmas
7. John Riecker Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
8. Statesmanship Initiative
9. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 19, 2006
10. Two Who Made a Difference
11. Venezuela’s Destiny
12. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 12, 2006
13. From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
14. ‘Economic Icon’ Dale M. Haywood
15. Incentives Matter, at Any Age
16. Greeley and Bobsy: Wellsprings of Freedom
17. A Shared Destiny
18. Governor’s Mercury Proposal Lacks Sound Science
19. Study Finds Cabela’s Has No County Jobs Impact
20. Governor’s Mercury Directive Lacks Sound Scientific Basis
21. Assessing Stricter Mercury Controls in Michigan
22. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 5, 2006
23. Internet Policy Strictly a Federal Prerogative
24. Businesses Taxes: A Pernicious Sham
25. Property Owners Hit by Regulatory Takings Deserve Compensation
26. Time to Get Serious About School Employee Pension Reform
27. The AFL-CIO Picks the U.N. Over the Constitution
28. Youth Violence and the Media
29. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 28, 2006
30. Thankful for Think Tanks
31. Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency
32. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 21, 2006
33. Michigan Education Report (2006-04)
34. How Milton Friedman Influenced Michigan and the World
35. Mackinac Center in the New York Times
36. New York Times Story Describes Mackinac Center President as “Johnny Appleseed” of Free-Market State Policy Think Tanks
37. In Memory of Milton Friedman
38. Around the State 2006-02
39. Proposal 5 Defeat Means Voters Want Changes
40. Mackinac Center Launches New Science Magazine
41. MichiganScience No. 1
42. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 14, 2006
43. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes
44. Is it Smarter to Lower Michigan’s Investment Disincentives a Lot or a Little?
45. Trash Talkin’ Politicians
46. Michigan’s Gross State Product Plummet Shows Need for Changes
47. Let Market Decide Tiger Stadium’s Fate
48. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 7, 2006
49. Subsidized Art Isn’t Free Expression
50. Proposal 5 and the Fine Print
51. Bold Changes Needed in State Permitting
52. Public Bans on Private Actions
53. Arrest Pontiac Police Costs
54. Don’t Expect Much From Politics
55. Proposal 5: K-16
56. Proposal 4: Eminent Domain
57. Mission Creep: Prop 5 Cash Isn’t About Classrooms
58. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 31, 2006
59. Why Government Should Not Be in the Business of Subsidizing Businesses
60. A Proposal for Property Protection
61. It’s Time for Michigan to Go to Work
62. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 24, 2006
63. “The Wire”: A Barbed Portrayal of Urban Public Schools
64. Understanding Public Opinion Surveys (short version)
65. Prop 1: The Forgotten Proposal
66. Growing Up Means Resisting the Statist Impulse
67. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 17, 2006
68. Choice and Accountability in Public Schools
69. Woe Be Gone, Taxpayers
70. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2006
71. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 10, 2006
72. The Flint Sit-Downs: A Striking Lesson
73. Decades of Dollars and Disappointment
74. Proposal 4 Would Place “Reasonable and Significant Restrictions” on Michigan’s Use of Eminent Domain
75. How the Late Great Detroit Statler Lives On
76. Environmental Doomsayers Can Breathe Easy
77. Get Rid of the Labels
78. Proposal 4: A Legal Review and Analysis
79. Ending Cable Monopolies Would Benefit Consumers
80. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 3, 2006
81. “I Am Going to Arrest You”
82. IMPACT Fall 2006
83. School Choice Snapshot: A 2006 Survey of U.S. Policy and Advocacy Organizations
84. Michigan: A Taxing Place To Do Business
85. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 26, 2006
86. Universities and Economic Development
87. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 21, 2006
88. The “Stop Overspending” Proposal Would Have Provided a “Meaningful Restraint” on State Spending Growth
89. The Stop Overspending Michigan Initiative: A Review and Analysis
90. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 19, 2006
91. Municipal Control of Franchising Inflates Cable Rates and Impedes Broadband Investment
92. Yet Another Regulatory Burden on Electricity Supply in Michigan
93. Assessing the Case for Cable Franchise Reform
94. Hayek Was Right: The Worst Do Get To The Top
95. Minimum wage hike claims first casualty
96. A Superintendent Provides Choice in Edmonton
97. Around the State 2006-01
98. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 13, 2006
99. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 12, 2006
100. Proposal 5 Could Aggravate School Finance Problems and Reduce Schools’ Incentives To Improve
101. An Analysis of Proposal 5: The ‘K-16’ Michigan Ballot Measure
102. Public Schools Can Provide a Choice to Every Parent
103. Teachers’ Strikes, Court Orders and Michigan Law
104. “What’s Going On” Redux: A Motown Classic Hijacked
105. A Student’s Tribute to a Hero
106. Michigan Education Report (2006-03)
107. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 5, 2006
108. Reforming America’s Secret Collectivism: The System of Compelled Union Representation
109. An Unhealthy Policy Prescription
110. Survey 2006: School Outsourcing Continues to Grow
111. Jazzing Up Civil Society
112. Mackinac Center Survey: Michigan School Privatization Increases
113. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 29, 2006
114. Want Economic Growth? Make Incentives Available to All
115. Taxes Do Matter
116. Frank Knox: Prescient and Principled
117. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 22, 2006
118. Scientific Minds are a Terrible Thing to Waste
119. A Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
120. The Difference One Can Make (Original Version)
121. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 15, 2006
122. On a “Lost City” and a Lost Perspective
123. "It Can Happen to You"
124. Creating Compensation for Regulatory Takings
125. A Blighted History of Property Rights Protection
126. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 8, 2006
127. The City of Pontiac: a “Going Concern”?
128. Tributes to Stephen P. Dresch
129. The School Choice Movement’s Greatest Failure
130. Michigan Dithers on Medicaid Estate Recovery
131. Seeking Opportunity
132. Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
133. Seminar Provides a ‘Kelo’ of Prevention
134. Twenty-Nine Seconds That Changed History
135. Michigan Court of Appeals Ruling in Bay Mills Lawsuit “Terrific News for More Than 10,000 Schoolchildren”
136. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 1, 2006
137. On Carbon Dioxide Emissions, the Supreme Court Should Look to the Law
138. How to resign your union membership
139. NEA, AFT Annual Meetings Resemble Political Conventions
140. Summer of Privatization
141. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 25, 2006
142. SOS: Sensible Spending with Taxpayer Protection
143. Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (General Article)
144. Gasoline Prices in Perspective
145. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2006
146. The Price of Abandoning Principle
147. Katz Roils Waters at U.S. Senate
148. Romney Care: Bad Medicine for Michigan?
149. Appeals Court Hears MEA Union Suit Involving Bay Mills Public Charter Schools
150. Data Show Michigan is #1 in Resident Departures
151. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 11, 2006
152. Government Putts
153. Guidance Directives: Regulation by Bureaucratic Fiat
154. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2006
155. IMPACT Summer 2006
156. What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore: Remove Destructive Taxes
157. Why Colorado Matters to Michigan
158. The Property Rights Fight Since Kelo
159. Character Makes the Difference (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
160. The Pursuit of Happiness
161. Congress Seizes on Net Neutrality
162. Restoring Our Heritage of Property Rights
163. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 27, 2006
164. The Contemporary Litigation Environment
165. A Convenient Deceit?
166. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 20, 2006
167. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Attorney General v. Michigan Public Service Commission
168. Court Properly Restrains Feds’ Worst Wetlands Excesses, But Ruling Could Ultimately Leave Federal Agencies With Broad Wetlands Authority
169. Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part Two
170. Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part One
171. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 13, 2006
172. Wise spending pays for killing biz tax
173. Is Every "Choice" a Good One?
174. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 6, 2006
175. Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
176. Grover Cared
177. Federal-Mogul Lesson: Get Rid of the SBT and Fix the Fundamentals
178. Double-but-Nothing: More Education Spending Hasn't Yielded Better Results
179. Making State Agencies More Accountable
180. Detroit Should Sell Tiger Stadium As Is
181. Memorial Day: for the Love of Liberty
182. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 30, 2006
183. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, May 2006
184. Character Makes All the Difference in the World
185. Michigan Education Report (2006-02)
186. Michigan Should End Its Tax Favoritism
187. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 23, 2006
188. Sinking fund legislation could balloon local property tax millages
189. Secret Ballot?
190. Mackinac Center President Comments on Passing of Herbert D. Doan, Chairman of the Dow Foundation
191. Municipal Finance Expert Louis Schimmel Joins Mackinac Center
192. City of Sylvan Lake
193. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 16, 2006
194. State College Money Should Follow Students, Not Lobbyists
195. The State of the Great Lakes
196. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 9, 2006
197. Union Monitor
198. The Wrong and Right Approaches to Michigan’s Economic Malaise
199. Fair Share Plans Are Anything But
200. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 2, 2006
201. 42 Days of Infamy? (General Article)
202. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Education Association v. Superintendent of Public Instruction et al
203. 42 Days of Infamy? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
204. Great Values, Great Movies
205. Averaging Our Way to Average (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
206. How Big Is Bush’s Big Government?
207. A Voter’s Checklist for School Elections
208. Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in MEA Lawsuit Involving Bay Mills Charter Schools
209. Law of the Land
210. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 25, 2006
211. MEGA Grant Requests: What Companies Say
212. Earth Day in Michigan: Room To Celebrate
213. The Final Phase of the Great Depression
214. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 18, 2006
215. A Window Into Lawmakers’ Souls
216. Around the State
217. Federal Mogul: More Evidence that “Targeted Incentives” Don't Work
218. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 11, 2006
219. The Best Way To Support the Arts
220. Regulation’s Real-World Impact
221. The Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative: “Enlightened Self-Interest”
222. A Magnificent Exposition
223. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 4, 2006
224. An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
225. How To Replace the SBT With Nothing (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
226. Protecting Art From Politicians
227. An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy
228. Replacing the Single Business Tax With – Nothing
229. Support the Arts: Just Don’t Use Other People’s Money
230. IMPACT Winter/Spring 2006
231. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 28, 2006
232. MSAs Increase Freedom and Choice
233. Irony in Ironwood
234. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 21, 2006
235. Michigan’s Lemon Industrial Policy
236. Testimony of Diane Katz Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
237. Happy Anniversary, Free Speech!
238. The Downside of a Minimum Wage Increase
239. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 14, 2006
240. Entertaining Art: To Tax or Not To Tax — That Is the Question
241. Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
242. MESSA Reference Page
243. Melville W. Fuller: A Model Chief Justice
244. Time to Revive Competition in Electricity Supply
245. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 7, 2006
246. Michigan Education Report (2006-01)
247. Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2006 Edition
248. Proposed Limitations and Expansions of Government
249. Michigan’s Russian Roulette
250. Change To Win What?
251. A Supreme Court To Be Proud Of
252. Putting the Government's Cart Before the People's Horse
253. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 28, 2006
254. How To Replace the SBT With Nothing
255. Michigan Can't Afford the Status Quo
256. Around the State
257. The Money Myth
258. Today’s Oral Arguments in U.S. Supreme Court Wetlands Cases Suggest Court Is “Concerned About Federal Encroachment”
259. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 21, 2006
260. Michigan Cases in U.S. Supreme Court To Define Scope of Federal Wetlands Regulation
261. Corn Flakes and Greatness
262. Celebrating Black History Month, 2006
263. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 14, 2006
264. Patterson: Blow Up the Single Business Tax
265. The State of the Michigan Economy
266. We’ve Only Just Begun?
267. Issues and Ideas Luncheon, February 2006
268. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 7, 2006
269. Supporting Companies That Oppose Eminent Domain Abuse
270. Banks and Credit Unions: The Unlevel Playing Field
271. Government Broadband: Unnecessary and Unfair
272. Government Golf: Unfair Competition Hurts Business, Taxpayers
273. Parents Still Have an Option to Check Kids’ Safety
274. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 31, 2006
275. Change To Win What?
276. Past as Prologue: Will We Learn From History?
277. State of the Statist
278. Around the State
279. Mackinac Center To Tally New Granholm Initiatives Tonight
280. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 24, 2006
281. Time to Park Old Thinking
282. The Great Communicator
283. Takeover of Detroit Schools Shows Few Intended Results
284. Mackinac Center Reiterates Its Policy on Toyota Land Case
285. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 17, 2006
286. The First Phase of the Great Depression
287. Keeping the Lights on for Privatization
288. Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in DPG York v. Michigan
289. Mackinac Center Files Legal Brief in Toyota Land Case
290. Navigating Wetlands to the Supreme Court
291. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 10, 2006
292. Wal-Mart Exposes Contradictions on the Left
293. New Data Shows Michigan Citizens Still Fleeing State
294. Demography is Destiny
295. The Sun Sets on “Opportunity Scholarships” in the Sunshine State
296. An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities
297. MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 3, 2006
298. Happy 300th Birthday, Ben!
299. Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced (Viewpoint on Policy Issues)
300. Public Pension Plans Need To Reflect Reality
301. Michigan Landowners To Be Heard at U.S. Supreme Court