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- County Prevailing Wage Law Could Add Millions To Taxpayer Costs
- Vernuccio Discusses Beck Rights
- The Best of the Best
- Sifting Through History’s Dustbin
- National Review Highlights Center's Effort on RTW
- Call a Taxi
- December 21, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Judge Bork R.I.P.
- Mendacity Writ Large
- IMPACT January/February 2013
- Terrible Track Record
- Cutting the Union Cord: A Cautionary Tale
- Numbers Game
- Per-Pupil Spending About Even
- Right-to-Work Laws Can Make Unions Stronger
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
December 18, 2012
- December 14, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Forced Unionism an Assault on Liberty
- An Inspiration and a Warning from Michigan
- Vernuccio, Lehman Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
- Right-to-Work: What Now for Schools?
- Skorup Cited in Wall Street Journal
- Union Steward Paid $100K By Taxpayers Attends Rally Advocating Against Them
- BCBS Money Should Fund People, Not Programs
- Union Speaker to Michigan Governor: 'We'll Be At Your Daughter's Soccer Game!'
- The False Social Concerns About Right-to-Work
- Final Passage, Text and Roll Call Votes on RTW
- Easy Rider
- State, National Media Turn to Mackinac Center on RTW
- Hold on a moment, we're forwarding you to the videos ...
- RTW Passes; Congratulations to Dr. William Wilson
- From Long Shot to Victory
- Union Rates Not Dropping Faster In RTW States
- A 'Date' With Destiny
- Protest Over Pupils
- An Open Letter to Sen. Gretchen Whitmer
- Michigan Becomes 24th Right-to-Work State in the Nation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
December 11, 2012
- The Intellectual Firepower Against Right-to-Work
- Labor Expert on Fox News, CNN Discussing RTW
- Obama Voters Break Ranks on Labor Policy
- Taxpayer-Funded Stadiums a Lose-Lose Proposition
- A Tale of Two Stalins
- Labor Expert Explains Right-to-Work in Bay City Times
- School Officials Fearful of 'Segregation'
- The Human Side of Right-to-Work Legislation
- December 7, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Vernuccio Cited on CNN About Right-to-Work
- Right-to-Work Right for Business
- Michigan Legislature Passes Right-to-Work Bills
- Vernuccio Op-Ed in USA Today on Right-to-Work
- Vernuccio Cited in Wall Street Journal
- Work Slowdowns and 'Free Riders'
- Wall Street Journal Cites Center on RTW Statistics
- Vernuccio in Reuters, on Fox Business Talking RTW
- Union Intimidation at Michigan Capitol
- Legislation Announced to Make Michigan the 24th Right-to-Work State in the Nation
- Governor: Bill Will Be Introduced To Make Michigan 24th Right-To-Work State
- Michigan Still Worse Economically Than RTW Oklahoma
- Teachers Shouldn't Be Fired For Not Joining Union
- Follow the Money
- Right-to-Work Draws Attention
- Major Newspapers Highlight Center RTW Video
- Right-to-Work Laws Influence Migration
- Vernuccio on Economic Benefits of Right-to-Work
- LaFaive: Put Subsidies for Detroit Red Wings on Ice
- The Voices of Right-to-Work
- WSJ Cites Center on Detroit's Fiscal Problems
- The 'Pro Big Business' Myth Put to Rest
- Media Shouldn't Whitewash Big Labor's Past
- Vernuccio Explains Right-to-Work in Detroit News
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
December 4, 2012
- Another Look at Hydraulic Fracturing
- State Budget Issues Big and Small
- Stealth Unionization: The Walking Dead
- Why Michigan Needs a Right-to-Work Law
- Schools Put Unions Ahead of Teachers on Right-to-Work
- November 30, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- State, National Media Cite Center on
Right-to-Work
- MEA Misleads on Oklahoma Right-to-Work Numbers
- What Is Right-to-Work?
- Unions On The Offensive Against Possible Right-To-Work Bill in Michigan
- What Is Right-to-Work?
- Right-to-Work and the Mackinac Center
- Michigan Could Become 24th Right-to-Work State
- A Quick Lesson on School Vouchers
- Another GOP Gov. Refuses Obamacare Exchange
- Grand Rapids TV Viewers May Experience Blackouts
- WSJ: Legislators as Obamacare 'Fall Guys'
- Van Beek Discusses Education Reform
- Media Plays Into 'Unfounded Hysteria' Over School Reforms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
November 27, 2012
- Vernuccio on Fox Business Black Friday
- Ideas For Fixing the Financial Manager Law
- November 23, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- There'd Be No Thanksgiving Without the Profit Motive
- The V-Word
- No State Obamacare Exchange Still Best Choice
- Court Rules in Favor of Land Bank
- How to Fix the Emergency Manager Law
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
November 20, 2012
- Police Called to Monitor Dam Removal Meeting
- Connecticut Now Struggling With Caregiver Unionization Efforts
- Red Dawn Finally Rising In Michigan
- Vernuccio Talks Prop 2 on Fox Business
- Proposal 2 Power Grab Demands Review of Government Unionism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
November 13, 2012
- Michigan Would Fall Hardest Over 'Fiscal Cliff'
- Families Forced Into SEIU Scheme Relieved and Thankful After Proposal 4 Defeat
- November 9, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Only Two Counties Voted for Proposal 2
- NYT: Prop 2 'An Embarrassing Loss for Labor'
- Voters Avert Disaster by Rejecting Proposal 2
- An End Finally in Sight for the SEIU Dues Skim
- LaFaive Discusses Ballot Failures
- Prop 1 Defeat a Loss for Struggling School Districts
- All Five Constitutional Amendments Soundly Defeated
- Labor Expert in Chicago Tribune
- The Michigan 'Truth Squad' Problem With Facts
- Prop 2 a Desperate Power Grab by Government Unions
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
November 6, 2012
- Vernuccio on Prop 2 in Forbes
- Why Statewide Education Policy Is Limited
- Real Merit Pay for Michigan Teachers
- Shouldn’t Enhancing Your Neighborhood Be Up to You?
- Media Resoundingly Rejects Prop 2, Prop 4
- Behind the Campaign to Lure Businesses to Support Proposal 2
- MLive Prop 4 Live Chat Transcript
- Vernuccio on Prop 2 in Huffington Post
- Center Expert Cited by State, National Media
- Union Electrician and Wife: 'The SEIU Never Did Anything For Us'
- Vernuccio in The Daily Caller
- Prop 2 Supporters Misled on Other States
- Jacques Barzun, R.I.P.
- Do Teachers Really Need More 'Protection?'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
October 30, 2012
- Unions Rig Proposal 2 Business 'Support' List
- Archive of webinar on Michigan's Ballot Proposals
- Key Word Missing from Prop 2: Mandatory
- Prop 3: A Push Backward
- Center Experts Address Props 1, 2 and 4
- Prop 4 Not About Home Care
- Mackinac Center on Fox Business: The Union Battle for Michigan
- Don’t Forget the Supreme Court Races
- October 26, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Prop 2 Supporters Putting Out Questionable Info
- Vernuccio in L.A. Times, New York Times
- Michigan Governed by 'Political Careerists'
- What Would Proposal 5 Do?
- Proposal 5 of 2012: An Assessment of the Supermajority Tax Vote Requirement
- Proposal 5 Likely to Help Limit State Taxes and Improve State’s Economy
- Prop 3 Will Cost Michigan
- IMPACT Fall 2012
- Super-Seniority
- 'Protect Working Families' Lists Proposal 2 Business Supporters Without Their Knowledge
- Proposal 5: Raw Media Soundbites with Michael LaFaive
- 'Non-Teaching' Staff Up 702 Percent Since 1950
- Prop 3 Can't Change the Laws of Economics
- Prop 2 Means More Arbitrary Teacher Placements
- Michigan Press Association Questions Prop 2
- Free Press Live Chat on Prop 4
- Union Member Says Proposal 2 is an 'Over-reaching Power Grab'
- SEIU Members Protest SEIU Healthcare Michigan
- New Graduation Requirements Mean Fewer Grads
- Michigan Press Association and Mackinac Center Joint Statement on Proposal 2 and the Freedom of Information Act
- Proposal 1 of 2012: The Referendum on Public Act 4
- An Analysis of Proposal 4 of 2012: The Unionization of In-Home Caregivers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
October 23, 2012
- Study Finds Rejecting Proposal 1 Will Not Preserve Local Control, but Will Affect Powers Given to State-Appointed Managers of Local Governments in Financial Crisis
- Proposal 2 Is Not Simply About Collective Bargaining
- Michigan 4th-Greatest 'Wage Gap' in US? Hardly
- October 19, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Prop 4 Op-Ed in Detroit Free Press Ungrounded
- Schools Ignoring Merit Pay Law
- Another One: Stimulus-Backed Battery Company Workers With No Work To Do — Playing Cards, Watching Movies, Reading Magazines
- Dead Batteries
- Legislators Propose More Corporate Welfare
- Collective Bargaining a 'Right' to Coerce
- Who's Cheating Who?
- About Those Judicial Candidates
- Lawsuit Filed Against Kent County Land Bank
- While Helping Out Injured Ex-Wife, Man Forced Into Union
- Media Looks to Center on A123 Bankruptcy
- New High School Performance Database
- A123 Files for Bankruptcy
- Analyst Cited on Prop 1
- The Murky Role of MERC in SEIU Scheme
- Districts Ignoring Merit-Pay Law
- Are Caregiving Relatives 'Public Employees'?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 16, 2012
- Prop 2 Analysis Gets State, National Coverage
- What's in a Teachers Union Contract?
- Nearly 80 Percent of School Districts Appear in Violation of Michigan's Merit-Pay Law
- Prop 4 Supporter Calls Dad 'An Idiot'
- Proposal 6: Who Is Right About New Bridge?
- Proposal 4 Ads: Fact or Fiction?
- Paying for Performance, Two Schools Ink New Deals
- School Districts Value Best Teachers $1 More Than The Worst
- Making Sense of Michigan's Ballot Proposals
- October 12, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- MEDC's Lack of Transparency Goes National
- The Easiest Way to Fire a Teacher
- Merit Pay Survey
- Prop 5: Protecting Taxpayers from the Government
- Schools Create Their Own FOIA Interpretation
- Prop 2 Would Change at Least 170 Laws
- Prop 4 Would Put Union Scam in Constitution
- Michigan Ballot Proposals Grid
- Renewable Energy Mandate Backers Have Deep 'Green' Pockets
- More Windmill-Related Environmental Concerns
- Video Confirms Negative Union Stereotypes
- Prop 3 Would Cost Taxpayers Billions
- 'Concerned Scientists' Not Very Scientific
- Labor Expert on Fox Business, in Washington Times
- Merit Pay in Mattawan
- Proposal 2: More Power for Government Unions
- Pontiac Phoenix Center in Ashes
- Labor Director Vinnie Vernuccio on Fox Business's 'Cavuto' Show
- What Would Proposal 4 Do?
- Proposal 1: Raw Media Soundbites with Michael LaFaive
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 9, 2012
- Proposal 4 Would Lock Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers Into Michigan Constitution
- MEDC Removes Video of Obama, Top Dems Praising Failed Battery Company
- Proposal 1 a Referendum on PA 4
- Prop 4 a 'Money Grab'
- A123 Video Shows President Obama, Top Politicians Praising Failed Green Company
- School District Allows Union, Employees To Exclude Material From FOIA Requests
- $1.6 Billion in Savings Lost Under Prop 2
- Prop 2 May Put FOIA on Ice for Media, Others
- What the Emergency Manager Referendum is About
- Vernuccio Discusses Prop 2 in Marquette County
- Freep Cites Fiscal Expert on Prop 5
- October 5, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Prop 2: An End to Teacher Tenure?
- What Would '25 x 25' Do?
- Emergency Manager Law Makes Pontiac Reforms Possible
- Why Statewide Education Policy Fails
- Exhibits List for Patricia Haynes and Steven Glossop v. Service Employees International Union Healthcare Michigan and the Michigan Quality Community Care Council
- Counting on Us for Count Day
- NEA Recognizes Need for STEM Teachers
- Sticky Data in Item Pricing 'Study'
- Raw Comments for Media Use Proposal 3
- Predators Back In the Classroom? It Could Happen
- Complaints About 'Parent Trigger' Miss the Mark
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 2, 2012
- ‘Won’t Back Down’ Triggers Petty Responses
- Center's Prop 3 Study Cited
- Proposal 2 Would Allow Government Union Contracts to Invalidate Existing and Future State Laws
- State, National Media Turn to Mackinac Center Analysts and Research for Details, Comments on Proposal 2
- Center Work on Prop 4 Cited
- Is the Horseshoer on Strike?
- Proposal 2 of 2012: An Assessment
- September 28, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Sunshine Review Touts LaFaive Op-Ed on Prop 2
- Wind Subsidies Upon Mandates Upon Subsidies
- Union Contract: Teachers Can Be Caught in School Drunk Five Times and On Drugs Three Times Before Being Fired
- Proposal 1 Has Nothing to Do With Local Control
- UAW Video Shows Political Influence
- From Feminism to FOIA
- Students' ZIP Code Should Not Limit School Choice
- Littmann Calculates Cost of NHL Lockout
- Stop the Presses! All of Michigan's Problems Solved
- Van Beek Discusses Teacher Evaluations
- Is 5076 Montauk Blighted?
- Who Is Rep. Ken Yonker?
- Placing School Bureaucrats Before Children
- State, Nation Have a Long Way to Go
- Raw Soundbites for Media Use Proposal 2
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 25, 2012
- The Perils of Politicians' Promises
- Deciphering Michigan's Ballot Proposals
- WJR: Beckmann Radio Interview with Michael LaFaive
- Mackinac Center: Vinnie Vernuccio Highlights on Ballot Proposals, Part 2
- Mackinac Center: Vinnie Vernuccio Highlights on Ballot Proposals
- The Projected Economic Impact of Proposal 3 and Michigan’s Renewable Energy Standard
- 'It's hard to believe the union could get away with something like this'
- News from Lake Wobegon:
- September 21, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Prop 3’s Renewable Energy Standard Could Cost Michigan 10,540 Jobs, According to New Mackinac Center-Beacon Hill Institute Study
- Study: Proposal 3 Would Result in Lost Jobs, Higher Costs
- Center Legal Expert Discusses SEIU Case
- Vernuccio Cited in Investor's Business Daily
- Home Help Providers Saved From Illegal Dues
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks MERC to Reverse Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers
- Raw Soundbites for MERC Legal Case
- Glossop Family Caregiver Wants Out of SEIU
- Legal Foundation Seeks End to Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers
- LaFaive Discusses Prop 5
- Prop 2 Supporters Change Name
- Commentary: Prop 4 Supporters Promise Programs That Already Exist
- Vernuccio Discusses Prop 2 on 'The Big Show'
- Do Prop 4 Supporters Know What It's About?
- They Said, We Said: Claim and Reply
- Roscommon teachers leave Michigan Education Association
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 18, 2012
- Time to Rethink ISDs
- Which Ballot Proposals Are 'Grassroots'?
- $1.6 Billion in Savings Lost Under Prop 2
- DPS teachers awarded bonuses
- Achievement Gaps the Wrong 'Focus'
- Detroit high school students to try virtual learning
- Chicago strike sparks discussion about teacher evaluations
- Liberty Seminar canceled
- Economic Development a Campaign Tool
- Grosse Pointe's Costly Nonresident Crackdown
- September 14, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- College stats in for Kalamazoo Promise’s first class
- Most of Michigan is 'Poor' or 'Marginal' For Wind Energy
- How Not to Measure Charter School Quality
- School District Requiring Parents To Pay For Magazine Subscription May Be Breaking State Law
- Excuses Don't Change Facts
- Roscommon Teachers Quit MEA
- Raw Soundbites for Media Use with Patrick Wright
- 'They Are A Bureaucratic Machine That Got Out of Control'
- Roscommon Teachers Vote to Decertify From the MEA
- Proposal 6: The International
Bridge/Tunnel Voting Requirement
- Vernuccio on Fox Business
- Count Day Could Become an Outdated Gimmick
- Sweeping collective bargaining proposal on November ballot
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 11, 2012
- What the Emergency Manager Referendum is About
- SEIU Draws Attention Over Dues Skim
- Granholm's DNC Performance Full of Tall Tales
- F. Vincent Vernuccio on Varney & Co Fox Business 9/10/2012
- Teacher pension reform law signed
- Teacher pension reform law signed
- On Being Designated ‘Focus Schools’
- Highland Park student plaintiffs return to school
- Number of Michigan charter public schools continues to grow
- SEIU Dues Skim All About Politics
- Prop. 1: Emergency Manager Repeal
- Some Flint students begin year without class assignments
- 'Protect Our Jobs' Could Increase Gov't Secrecy
- VIDEO: Vinnie Vernuccio on Supreme Court Decision
- Voters Face Tough Decision on POJA
- Nathan's First Day of Business
- POJA Supreme Court Decision
- Supreme Court Rules: Union Power Grab Proposal Will Be On Ballot
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Proposal Approved by State Supreme Court
- 'Protect Our Jobs' Draws National Scrutiny
- Vincent Vernuccio on Michigan Unions' POJA Power-Play
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 4, 2012
- School Districts Increase Taxes On Residents Without A Vote
- LaFaive: Why Michigan Needs a Right-to-Work Law
- Sorry Kids — Say Goodbye to Count Day Goodies
- Tax Limitation Amendment May Greet Voters in November
- School Support Services Contracting Increases to 61 Percent of Districts
- School District Imposes Taxation Without Representation
- State Spends $42.8 Million on Disability Payments, Recipients' Afflictions Unknown
- Meaningful School Reform Needed
- Vernuccio on WPHM AM1380
- Happy Birthday Indeed for Saginaw Fire Department Union Members
- Center Attorney on Zoning, Economic Prosperity
- School tax rates in Kalamazoo County go up without a vote
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 28, 2012
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Proposal Approved by Court of Appeals; State Supreme Court May Have Final Say
- SEIU Ballot Language Disconnected From Reality
- 'Protect Our Jobs' Doesn't Protect Taxpayers
- Center Scholar in Free Press
- Oxford district’s AstroTurf could cost some their homes
- Whitehall saves by switching to high-deductible health plan
- Michigan districts start testing teacher evaluation methods
- August 24, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Audit alleges Genesee district administrator misspent funds
- Teen Entrepreneur's
'New Challenge Is Ahead of Him'
- Gov. Snyder's Obamacare 'Partnership' Misguided
- Nathan's Hot Dog Stand Back in Business
- Analysis: 25 by 2025 'Green Energy' Studies Ignore Costs
- 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur to Reopen Hot Dog Stand in Holland, Mich., Thursday Morning
- GQ Hit Piece on GR ArtPrize
- Land Bank Powers Abused, Costly to Taxpayers
- 13-Year-Old to Reopen Hot Dog Cart
- CapCon Story Goes Viral
- Teaching Teachout on the DIA Deception
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 21, 2012
- Raw Soundbites for Media Use
- What Would 'Protect Our Jobs' Do?
- Most tax increases pass, increases for schools least popular
- Inconvenient Truths on School Choice
- Appeals court rules against deduction for teacher health costs
- No Horses, But Detroit Water Department Employs 'Horseshoer'
- Blended learning school to open in Detroit this fall
- DPS shakeups continue, split power between board and manager
- August 17, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Debt Program for Public Schools Has Gone Too Far
- Madison Heights district settles with teachers union
- A Welcome First Step in Holland
- Let Online Learning Flourish
- Center Expert in Chicago Tribune
- Legislature passes school pension reform
- The 'Collective Bargaining' Amendment
- Detroit Makes Lemons Out of Lemonade
- School Privatization Up, According to Freep
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Proposal Is Not Certified by State Board of Canvassers; Court May Have Final Say
- Michigan Ballot Proposals
- Per-Pupil Spending Little To Do With Performance
- GOP Fumbles: On Verge of Giving MEA Huge Pension Win
- Center’s 2012 School Privatization Survey Shows Largest Increase Ever; State ‘Best Practices’ Incentives May Be Working
- Film Subsidy Money Has to Come From Somewhere
- NEW VIDEO - Homeless Teen and Family Struggle After City of Holland Shuts Down His Hot Dog Cart
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 14, 2012
- Center Coverage Draws Nat'l, Internat'l Attention
- Really? A 150 Percent Business Tax Hike?
- 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur vs. City Hall
- School Support Services Contracting Increases to 61 Percent of Districts
- August 10, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- BREAKING NEWS - Boy Whose Hot Dog Cart Was Shut Down by the City of Holland Now Homeless
- Michigan Legislators vs. Liberty and Human Flourishing
- Commentary: A Different Kind of 'Waste'
- High-Scoring High Schools
- Detroit Tries to Salvage Water Department
- Unnecessary State Rule Enriches Crony Capitalists
- Van Beek on WJR With Beckmann
- Instead of Focusing on Gaps, Focus on Growth
- Scaffolding for Plunder Part II
- Top 10 Charter High Schools
- Proposal 3: The '25 x 25' Renewable Energy Standard
- Top 10 Conventional High Schools
- Attorney General: ‘Protect Our Jobs’ should be kept off ballot
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 7, 2012
- Dr. Paul McCracken, RIP
- Standard Fair
- Michigan Department of Education releases school grades
- Ballot Proposal Would Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients for Union’s Political Agenda
- Emergency Managers:
A Distasteful Necessity
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Would Make Union Bosses the Most Powerful People in Michigan
- New charter public school focused on entrepreneurial education
- Is the National Education Association facing a pension crisis?
- Dearborn district must provide transportation to better schools
- Grand Traverse Residents 'Occupy' the Boardman
- August 3, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Kent County Taxpayers Question Land Bank
- Top 10 Rural High Schools
- Center Pension Analysis in Oakland Press
- Back-to-School Shopping
- Top 10 Town High Schools
- Proposal 5: The Two-Thirds Majority Tax Limitation
- Tax Limitation Amendment May Greet Voters in November
- Proposal 1: Referendum on the Emergency Manager Law
- Proposal 4: The Unionization of
Home-Based Caregivers
- Henry Payne Explains the Greatness of Friedman
- Poll: Voters Support Senate Pension Reform
- Affordable HSA Insurance Growing
- Time to Give Up Golf Courses, Pools
- A Better Choice, Less Than a Mile Away
- Top 10 Suburban High Schools
- Michigan Chamber president opposes POJA
- Mackinac Center Interns Celebrate Milton Friedman
- Friedman Sets Phil Donahue Straight
- Top 10 City High Schools
- Milton Friedman and School Choice
- Center's Vinnie Vernuccio on Fox Business
- AFT wants to end to ‘high-stakes testing,’ increase taxes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 31, 2012
- A Personal Statement About
‘Free to Choose’
- School Performance Analyses Useful
- Center Expert Cited in Chicago Tribune
- Center Scholar in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Teachers unions give $1 million to 'Protect Our Jobs' initiative
- Who pays the most for minimum wage?
- City Shuts Down Teen's Hot Dog Vendor Cart!
- Should U.S. math curriculum and standards be revised?
- Michigan’s teaching population aging
- Overton Window Cited in WSJ
- July 27, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Michigan’s Teaching Population Aging
- Center Story Goes National
- Ann Arbor district balks at written superintendent evaluation
- More Money and More Problems
- Green Energy Mandate Supporter Claims Individuals 'Do Not Have Rights to Quiet'
- Detroit Charters Outperform DPS
- Vernuccio on Fox Business
- Capitalism and Feminism Not Mutually Exclusive
- SEIU Ballot Proposal Raises Questions
- Legislature fails to pass school pension reform
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 24, 2012
- Lehman: No Rush on Obamacare
- Michigan granted NCLB waiver
- Detroit targets vacant buildings near schools for demolition
- MSU study: Americans support local control of school districts
- 'Master'-ing Compensation for Michigan Teachers
- July 20, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Michigan Media Busy Reading 'CAP' Scores
- Highland Park Schools the Best Alternative?
- Work group begins updating education finance laws
- New School Report Card Produces 'Apples-to-Apples' Comparison of Michigan Public High School Performance by Adjusting for Student Family Poverty Levels
- Battle Creek's Player's Dilemma
- City Shuts Down Teen's Hot Dog Vendor Cart
- The 2012 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card
- Charterized school system contract details posted
- Official Calls Obamacare Implementation “A Mess”
- $131,000 for Five Students?
- Public Pensions — Lemons, Leaky Basements and a Losing Bet
- Policymakers Still Tripped Up By Pension Transition Costs
- Is Agriculture One of Michigan's "Big 3"?
- Teacher's Pet
- Fox News Cites Center Analyst
- Highland Park Reform May Have to Begin With Finances
- July 13, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- MLive Reports on Center Blog Post
- Governor's Letter Reveals Obamacare Drowning
- Center Scholar in Freep
- Why 'What' Is Where It's At
- Emergency Managers Are Bad, Bankruptcy Far Worse
- Top 5 Reasons to Repeal Obamacare
- Ballot Proposal to Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients
- Can Charter Public School Operator Improve Student Performance?
- House GOP, Pension Officials Scheme to Dupe Investors
- Muskegon ISD school board supports emergency manager’s reforms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 10, 2012
- State’s Alcohol Reform Ideas are Diamonds in a Very Big Rough
- SEIU Skim Scheme Draws Media Attention
- Reforming School Employee Pensions
- Center Study Cited by Fox Business News
- Canada offers international school choice to Michigan students
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Would Protect the 3 Percent at the Expense of the 97 Percent
- Emergency Managers Fill the Role of Modern-Day Cincinnatus
- The Legislature Must Fix Teacher Pensions the Right Way
- DPS union president says union won’t honor new contract
- Achievement gap grows for Michigan high school students
- Wind Noise Dispute Pits Scientists Against State Officials
- July 6, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Watch Jonah Goldberg Live!
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center: Featuring Jonah Goldberg
- National Education Association director criticizes Gov. Snyder
- Union Health Care Ballot Supporters Say They Have Enough Signatures for a Vote
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center: Featuring Jonah Goldberg
- IMPACT Summer 2012
- Center Analyst Discusses Obamacare
- Liberal Clichés 101: Abstract Democracy and Unity
- Ballot Petition Signatures Submitted in Home Health Aide Scheme
- State Spending More to Take Your Tax Dollars
- Rockets' Red Glare
- Teacher Pension Reform: The Myth of 'Transition Costs'
- Jonah Goldberg on WJR with Frank Beckmann
- Fix the Real Problem of the Pension System
- Center Analyst in Detroit News
- DPS chief implements new contract
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 3, 2012
- Center Analyst Cited in Detroit Free Press
- Liberal Clichés 101: Dogmatism
- Manchester looking for alternatives to MESSA
- Battle Creek could privatize busing
- Michigan denied NCLB waiver
- State sets new list of ‘best practices’
- What the Obamacare Decision Means for You
- What the Obamacare Decision Means for You
- Let Michigan Jobs "Bloom"
- Michigan Per-Pupil Revenues Hit All-Time High in 2011; $13,400 per Student
- llegal teacher strike possible in Detroit
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 26, 2012
- Are You Prepared for 'Taxmageddon'?
- Merit-Based Teacher Pay Rewards Everyone
- Hudson cuts teacher pay 6 percent
- Galesburg-August considers privatization to save money
- Highland Park could charterize district
- MPSERS and MSERS:
Three Pension Policy Briefs
- Public-Sector Pension Reform
- June 22, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- School Takeovers: Much Criticism, No Solutions
- Mount Pleasant alternative school could go online
- School Funding at All-Time High
- Littmann: Detroit Finances Need Stability
- SEIU Dues Skim Continues
- Commentary: Health Care Exchange Issue Won't Go Away
- Lessons from Allen Park
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center: Featuring Arthur Brooks
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center: Featuring Arthur Brooks in Birmingham
- Million-Dollar Beer Babies
- School Union Asks For Members' Bank Account, Credit Card Numbers to Guarantee Dues Payments
- Schools Aren't a 'Jobs Program'
- Illinois Cigarette Tax Hike Raises Concerns
- Center Analyst Discusses Michigan Jobs
- Remembering Vincent Chin
- Unions Push to Protect the 3 Percent
- Black charter school students top host district counterparts
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 19, 2012
- Legislature Should Be Bold on Tax Cuts
- The Lottery: Really Helping Schools?
- DPS to lose $4 million due to low attendance
- DeWitt to sell timber to help solve overspending crisis
- Lear gives $1.5 million to Detroit tutoring program
- June 15, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Cost Recovery Fees a Double-Edged Sword
- Senate opts not to vote on school pension reform bill
- House GOP Hides Behind Rigged 'Study'
- Jobs Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
- National Media Cites Center Analyst
- The Shortage of Generic Sterile Injectable Drugs: Diagnosis and Solutions
- Million-Dollar Beer Babies
- Outsourcing Isn't the Problem
- Center Research Cited in Wall Street Journal
- ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Backers Submit Petition Signatures
- Comparing Apples to Lemons in Pension Reform
- House Pension Reform Savings are Phony
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center: Featuring Arthur Brooks
- An Evening With the Mackinac Center: Featuring Arthur Brooks in Grand Rapids
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 12, 2012
- Governor backs $4 million teacher evaluation pilot program
- Michigan Needs Different Tack on
Alcohol Control
- Utah Incurred No Pension Reform ‘Transition Costs’
- Detroit teachers union threatens lawsuit over hiring practices
- Unemployment fraud uncovered at Detroit Public Schools
- Zeeland superintendent suspended for plagiarism
- A 'Business as Usual' Comeback?
- June 8, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Minimum Wage, Maximum Harm
- Snyder Recall Leader Pushing 'Protect Our Jobs'
- Muskegon Heights could become charter district
- Mackinac Center President Invites Bob King to Debate ‘Protect Our Jobs’ Ballot Proposal After UAW Chief a No-Show at Policy Conference Debate
- Ray Bradbury: Poet of Science and Sanity
- Lehman Invites UAW Boss to Debate
- Center Scholar Testifies Before Congress
- Public-Private Education Partnership: Unlikely Consensus, Promising Result
- Constitutional Pension Reform,
50 Years On
- State Lawmakers Invite a Local Emergency Manager by Disregarding Michigan’s History
- Telling Tales Out of School
- Michigan Already Diverges From GASB Rules
- Walker Lesson: We Can Stand Up To Big Unions
- President Joseph G. Lehman Debates 'Protect Our Jobs' Ballot Proposal at the Mackinac Policy Conference
- Retail Alcohol Density and Public Safety
- Freep, MLive Cover Lehman Debate
- Gifts for You on Keynes' Birthday
- Governor backs $4 million teacher evaluation pilot program
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 5, 2012
- Center Study Cited in Huffington Post
- Center Cited on Belle Isle, New Windsor Bridge
- Detroit News Cites Center on 'Release Time'
- Detroit teachers union threatens lawsuit over hiring practices
- Unemployment fraud uncovered at Detroit Public Schools
- Zeeland superintendent suspended for plagiarism
- Battle With 'Overzealous' Tax Hunters Continues
- June 1, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Teacher Pension Underfunding Hits $22B
- Lansing Builds a 'Scaffolding for Plunder'
- Muskegon Heights could become charter district
- Commentary: Michigan Licensing Laws Must Change
- Lehman Debates Union Power Grab
- Union Uses Students as Pawns
- Taxpayers Pay Twice for Union 'Release Time'
- SEIU Sues State, Governor to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing
- Governor’s Occupation Reform Proposals Sound
- The Big Lie of Government Pensions
- 'Green' Energy Agenda Exposed
- Michigan Pension Underfunding Gaps Widen
- The Longest Yard
- Paint by Numbers
- Cheeseheads Agree: 401(k)s for New Hires
- Goodrich refuses to outsource, cuts 17 teachers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 29, 2012
- Playing Chicken With the World’s Economies
- Bill would require teachers unions to pay for union work
- School leaders scared of competition from online charters
- SEIU Dues Scheme Must End
- Senate bill would change kindergarten cutoff
- McHugh Reponds to Chuck Moss on Pension Reform
- May 25, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Littmann Lays Out Teacher Pension Reform Facts
- Center Analysis Cited in Detroit News
- AEI: 'Pension Industrial Complex'
- Flexible charter public school increases test scores
- Attorney General Orders Home Health Dues Skim to End
- GOP Budget Spends More on Film Subsidies
- Gov. Snyder, Gov. Wise Talk Online Learning
- Union's Scare Tactics Exposed
- Tecumseh schools spending tax dollars on tourism campaign
- Improve Michigan’s Economy with Alcohol Sales at Farmers Markets
- Ecorse: Regaining Control
- The Online Learning Revolution
- Former Center Chairman Honored by JA
- House GOP on Verge of Surrendering to MEA
- House GOP Would Stick Taxpayers With Billions
- Muskegon Heights emergency manager says no consolidation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 22, 2012
- Michigan Lags Nation on School Choice
- Former W.Va. Gov. Bob Wise in Freep
- Van Beek Explains How Flipped Classrooms Work
- Senate passes school employee pension reform
- Intimidation, Threats Take Place of Civil Discourse
- State to rate school performance using colors
- Utica schools to save millions with private custodians
- May 18, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Two Cheers for Teacher Pension Reform Bill
- DFT: Ignore district interview procedures
- Michigan Senate Takes Up Bill to Ban Government Union Stewards Working on Taxpayers' Dime
- There Are Options to Address 'Transition Costs'
- SEIU's Vicious Circle
- Sen. Richardville: 'Tell the Mackinac Center that, OK?'
- Littmann Cited on Michigan's Unemployment Rate
- Commentary: Productivity Leads To Prosperity
- Pennies on the Dollar
- Quo Vadis, Michigan?
- Gov. Snyder clarifies, vows to enforce higher cyber charter cap
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 15, 2012
- There's No School Retiree Health Benefit 'Entitlement'
- Alcohol Control Reform
and Public Health and Safety
- Ypsilanti school board approves deficit-elimination plan
- International Academy named 5th best high school in country
- Alcohol-Market Controls Like Michigan’s Do Not Appear to Advance Public Health and Safety, Study Finds
- How CapCon Uses Transparency Laws to Hold Government Accountable
- Grand Rapids expects enrollment to decline by 400 to 600
- Van Buren public schools raises athletic GPA requirement to 2.0
- May 11, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Occupy to Protest Mackinac Center
- Corporate Welfare Backers Change Tune
- Oxford Community Schools: The Great Recession — and the 'Greatest Gift'
- Taylor, Huizenga Join Center Board
- Teacher Made Over $80K Per Year, Retires With a Pension of Over $40K — Claims 'Violation of Trust'
- Mackinac Center Speaker on WJR
- CapCon Story Draws National Attention
- Revenue vs. Profits
- Mackinac Center Hosting Arthur Brooks in June
- Crime Hinders Economic Development
- Congressman Dave Camp's Speech at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
- Bill raising cyber charter cap moves to senate
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 8, 2012
- Carnac Predicts:
- Center Scholars Featured in Free Press
- Michigan's Job Loss Apocalypse Averted!
- Detroit Consent Agreement: Another Kick of the Can?
- The Public School Pension Fund’s Problem Is Not Charter Schools
- Making the Whole Class Flip: The Online Learning Revolution
- Grand Rapids charter school to focus on fine, performing arts
- MEA PAC is fourth biggest political fundraiser in 2012
- Former Pontiac administrator accused of spending $300K
- Snyder/Wise Private Luncheon
- 'Skim Tracker' Hits $30 Million
- May 4, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Michigan Poets
- Few People Stay Poor
- Preliminary financial review for Pontiac schools
- School Pension Contributions Hurt Taxpayers
- There Are Alternatives to PA4 ...
- 'Free' College Tuition Plan Questioned
- Renewable Energy Standard Driving Prices Higher in States, Europe
- Former Center Scholar in 'Governing' Magazine
- PLAs, Student Loans, Welfare Subsidies
- Lawmakers, Governor Seeking To Get Project Labor Agreement Ban Back In Place
- Madison teachers threaten lawsuit over retroactive pay cuts
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 1, 2012
- Movie Reviews
- McHugh on Legislators' Benefits
- Flint-area teachers ‘flip’ their classrooms
- Two Michigan schools on federal ‘Green Ribbon Schools’ list
- Flint charter public school to lose authorization
- April 27, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Spencer Discusses SEIU Dues Skim
- Educrats Spin Conspiracy Theories
- More Charter Public School Expansion
- Trenton schools now accepting schools of choice students
- House Votes To Raise Cyber School Cap
- Prisons Not an 'Economic Development' Program
- Fact Checking the MEA President
- SEIU Dues Skim Scheme Continues
- Wright on WJR With Beckmann
- School Employee Retirement Benefits
- State Supreme Court lets DPS emergency manager stay
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 24, 2012
- Union Lawsuit Claims 'Slavery'
- Littmann to Speak on $58M School Bond Vote
- Some Michigan teachers could receive $1,600 bonuses
- Adrian teachers reject contract proposed by mediator
- 4,100 DPS teachers get layoff slips
- Missouri House Votes to 'Nullify' Obamacare
- CapCon Highlights Teachers' 'Issues'
- April 20, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Fowlerville considers privatization to avoid budget deficit
- 'Stranded Costs' Will Always Be Paid by Taxpayers
- CapCon Story Gets National Attention
- Van Beek on Schools' Long-Term Debt
- Center Scholars Cited in Detroit News
- Teacher Upset She Can't Retire at 47
- Center Analyst in Investor's Business Daily
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 17, 2012
- Financial emergency declared in Muskegon Heights
- Where A Pay Freeze Is a Pay Raise
- Hohman Op-Ed in Free Press
- Gas Prices Are Complex, but Not Mysterious
- Crystal Falls students to compete in robotics championship
- 1,200 Hours To Be a Lawyer, But 2,000 To Be a Barber
- Ann Arbor school to host Michigan’s first Muslim spelling bee
- Ypsilanti, Willow Creek discuss district consolidation
- April 13, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Flashy Projects Flash Back
- Same Old Story on Energy Policy
- DPS to experiment with 10 ‘self-governing’ high schools
- Charter Schools Average Smaller Class Sizes
- There's No Such Thing as Free Parking
- Pontiac's Fiscal Revolution
- Allen Park Residents Call for Change
- Union Workers Would be Better Off With a 401(k)
- Breaking News!
- SEIU Scheme Ends
- The Source of Schools' Pension Problems
- Hohman on Teacher Pensions in Detroit News
- Union Members Down, Money For SEIU Up
- An Answer to the MEA's Lawsuit
- New Law Frees Home Health Care Providers From Stealth Unionization, Dues Skim
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 10, 2012
- Pfizer Story Cited
- Collective Bargaining Initiative Is About Power, Not Rights
- Close the State School Employee Pension Fund
- Reform Needed to Curb Rising School District Debt Levels
- Prison Spending Ripe for Reform
- Hohman Commentary in Dearborn Paper
- CapCon Coverage Gets National Media Attention
- You Had to Figure This Would Happen...
- April 5, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Kersey Cited on Right-to-Work Laws
- Advanced Search Help
- University Budget Transparency vs. Secret 'Appropriations Mud Pit'
- Other Big State Universities Tighten Their Belts — U-M Has Much To Learn
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 3, 2012
- Don’t Milk Charter Schools for Pension Contributions
- Director of Labor Policy Cited on CNBC.com
- Commentary: Country Cannot Afford Obamacare
- March 30, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Two Bills, Two Standards
- Center Cited in National Review
- David Littmann on Fox Business News
- Center Analyst on Pension Reform
- Lehman: U.S. Can't Afford Obamacare
- 'Flipped Classrooms' Aid Student Learning
- Flipped Classrooms Underline Student Learning
- Center Cited on Tourism Subsidies
- Tuition Subsidies Offer Too Few Benefits
- Detroit Unions Dislike Manager Law?
- Unions in Perpetuity
- Commentary: Tourism Study Flawed
- Center Analyst Discusses Right-to-Work Issues
- Justices' Questions Provide Insight In Obamacare Debate
- IMPACT Spring 2012
- Center Analyst Cited on Early Spring
- DFT: Up to 900 Detroit teachers expected to retire this summer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 27, 2012
- Detroit Bankruptcy: America’s Leading Indicator?
- Stockbridge students use underwater robot to search for remains
- Populist 'Free Gas' Bill Comes At A High Cost
- State approves Pontiac deficit elimination plan
- Next round of EduJobs funding to be dispersed next month
- Governments Already Impose Hunger Games
- March 23, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Center Legal Analyst on WJR
- Highland Park EM ‘fully expects’ district to be open next year
- State Senate Passes Legislation to Define Home Health Care Providers as Private Individuals
- The Alliance for Retired Americans
- BREAKING NEWS: Michigan Senate Stops Home Health Care 'Dues Skim'
- Land Banking: An Old Idea With A Poor Track Record
- Center Cited on Student Victory
- LaFaive Viewpoint Garners Media Attention
- Legal Analyst: 'Monitoring' SEIU
- East Detroit opens to Wayne County ‘schools of choice’ students
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 20, 2012
- Michigan Should Reform School Lending System
- Commentary: Bailout of Student Loan Debt Is Not the Answer
- How Cost Effective Are Michigan’s Universities?
- Analyst Talks About Michigan Gas Tax
- Center Analyst: College Subsidy Plan Won't Work
- Schools can decline ‘pink slime’ beef next year
- Stealth Unionization Scheme Bleeds Medicaid
- Flanagan receives vote of confidence, contract extension
- Teacher concessions will save Marysville $950,000
- March 16, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- The Economic Opportunity Institute
- James Hohman On Teacher Retirement System
- Ypsilanti public schools facing $14 million deficit
- Oakridge Schools Lets the Sunshine In
- Kos Media
- Center Analyst Discusses Union Ballot Proposal
- Do Government Unions Really Need All That Money?
- The Edward M. Kennedy Institute
- Victory for U-M Grad Students
- Closing the School Employee Retirement Fund
- Cigarette Tax Hike Brings Smuggling, Other Unintended Consequences
- Jobs with Justice
- Mackinac Center releases study on closing underfunded MPSERS
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 13, 2012
- Law Signed by Gov. Snyder Confirms Legal Precedent, Protects Graduate Student Research Assistants From Forced Unionization
- Study Discusses Five Ways to Close State’s Badly Underfunded Public School Employee Pension Plan
- Why Don’t Superintendents Have Tenure?
- Five Options for Addressing
‘Transition Costs’ When Closing
the MPSERS Pension Plan
- The Center for American Progress Action Fund
- Dim Bulbs
- House committee considers increased number of count days
- Gov. Snyder calls for renewed efforts to reduce truancy
- Muskegon Heights may close without emergency manager
- Bill prohibits schools from collecting union dues
- March 9, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Americans United for Change
- Why the 'Michigan2020' Plan is a Poor Investment
- U-M Graduate Students Blue Over Unionization
- Benenson Strategy Group
- Center Analysts Discuss Illegal Unionization
- School Districts in Deficit are Top Heavy
- Free Press Writer Praises Center Scholar
- Colorado WINS
- Paul Kersey Discusses New Labor Proposal
- Self-Centered and Reckless
- Kersey: Union Ballot Plan a 'Power Grab'
- Mackinac Center Video Posted at Breitbart.com
- A Tale of Two States: Indiana and Michigan
- America Votes
- DPS to run Highland Park’s nonteaching services
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 6, 2012
- Exports Critical For Michigan's Recovery
- The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
- Increasing Tobacco Taxes Brings Negative Results
- GM Suspends Volt Production
- Health Care Caps Will Help Students
- Bad Axe hires consulting firm to boost test scores
- Time to Scotch Michigan’s Wholesale Alcohol Monopolies
- Nation’s Highest Gas Tax Coming to Michigan?
- Michigan Senate Should Help End Illegal Unionization
- House bill requires board members physically attend meetings
- Muskegon Heights deficit plan called unrealistic
- SEIU Healthcare Michigan
- March 2, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- MCLF Joins Supreme Court Brief
- SEIU Dues Skim Explained
- DPS sees decrease in violent crime
- Remove Needless Mandates on Teachers
- Change.org
- Analyst Questions Democracy of Unions
- Littmann Discusses '9-9-9' Tax Reform Plan
- Do We Let Unions Bankrupt Governments?
- Public School Welcomes All
- Center Analysts Discuss Emergency Manager Law
- The Atlas Project
- According to Beneficiaries, All Government Spending Is Worth the Investment
- Train Wreck: Amtrak Is a Case Study in Government Waste
- The Brave New Foundation
- LaFaive Cited on Government Golf Courses
- Niles teachers protest contract offer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 28, 2012
- GOP Hopefuls Square Off
- Analyst Cited on GM Bankruptcy
- The Applied Research Center
- Bill to ban grad student unionization moves to Senate floor
- School claims township implementing ‘neo-Jim Crow’ in lawsuit
- State grants emergency $4 million for Highland Park students
- Feb. 24, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- ‘Change that Works’
- Endowments up at Michigan colleges and universities
- Upside-Downside of “9-9-9” Income Tax Reform
- Celebrating Black History Month
- The Clean Economy Development Center
- Center Expert Discusses Genesee School Lawsuits
- Detroit News Editorial Supports GSRA Autonomy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 21, 2012
- All “MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report” Votes for 2012
- Unemployment Rate Not as Rosy as It Appears
- Digital Learning Day
- Prohibition by Price
- Michigan's First Digital Learning Day
- Despite Deficit, Some Dearborn Top Officials Got Boosts in Pay
- Feb. 17, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Michigan Vulnerable to Indiana
- Center Analyst Discusses Gas Taxes
- Center Cited on Fox Business
- MEA's Hyperbole About Cyber Charter Schools
- Dividing Ourselves From All That
- Editorial Cites Hohman on Chevy Volt Subsidies
- Online Charter School Spending Trends
- Center Expert Outlines Right-to-Work Issue
- Would Michigan Have Been Better Off if the Sit-Down Strike had Failed?
- Illinois Woman Charged With Making Death Threats Against Mackinac Center
- Detroit to close some schools, turn others into charters
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 14, 2012
- Detroit Could Sell Off Assets to Avoid Insolvency
- Wright Discusses SEIU Scheme
- Center Expert Cited on UAW Politics
- Magnet programs drive increased enrollment in Jackson
- Bill to expand cyber school choice passes house committee
- Kalamazoo-area schools shift to full-day kindergarten
- Tax Foundation Rates Michigan
- Feb. 10, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- 'Best Article on Wind Farms You Will Ever Read'
- Corporate Welfare to Increase $20M
- Governor ties increased school funding to district performance
- A growing list of things the staff likes
- Elementary Students Forced to Write Advocacy Letters to Governor Criticizing Education Cuts
- Center Experts on School Spending
- Center Analyst Discusses Gas Tax
- Myth 5: The Unequal Funding Myth
- Benefit Costs Sunk Benton Harbor's Finances
- Pete Hoekstra Ad Misses the Mark
- Rep. Ray Franz: Hero of Home Repair Tradesmen
- Beaverton teachers drop MESSA for Blue Cross Blue Shield
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 7, 2012
- Right to Work: Right for Oregon, Right for Michigan
- The Unequal School Funding Myth
- LaFaive Cited on Indiana Right-to-Work Law
- Comcast expands eligibility for ‘Internet Essentials’
- Research Shows Right-to-Work Laws the Right Way to Go
- State Behind on School Employee Pension Reform
- How Corporate Welfare Hurts People
- What Right-to-Work Means for Indiana
- Portage declines to fully privatize custodial work
- The Price of Government Unions (It's High)
- MCLF Attorney Discusses U-M Case
- Portage Schools Turns Down $270K Savings
- Taxpayer Costs For Average State Employee Increased From $79K in 2001 to $95K in 2011
- The Unstoppable Teacher Pension Fund Monster
- If the Monopoly Title Fits, Wear It
- Center Pension Study Cited
- Comcast expands eligibility for ‘Internet Essentials’
- Award-Winning Reporter, Editor Joins Michigan Capitol Confidential as Managing Editor
- Nation’s Highest Gas Tax Coming To Michigan?
- It's Official: Indiana Is a Right-to-Work State
- Indiana Governor Signs Right-to-Work Law; Michigan’s Fragile Economy Faces New Competition
- Landmark Right-to-Work Bill Passes in Indiana House
- Universities extend application window for new charter schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 31, 2012
- Virtual Learning Can Improve Outcomes and Save Money
- Right-to-Work-for-Yadda-Yadda-Yadda
- Catholic Schools Week
- Muskegon Heights privatizes some positions, saves $1.2 million
- Center Scholar, Wife, Pen New Book
- Niles secretaries take 2.5 percent pay cut
- Saline will wait for state decision on ‘Pledge’ mandate
- Bringing Freedom to Afghanistan
- Jan. 27, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- The Debate About Online Charter Schools
- Kersey Cited in Wall Street Journal
- 'Birthday Tax' Unveiled in Lansing
- Congressman Addresses Mackinac Center Audience
- Some CMU faculty suspicious about union contract vote
- Court Denies U-M Students Their Say
- Happy Birthday, Michigan!
- Center Scholar's Commentary in Financial Post
- Loar v. Michigan Department of Human Services Brief
- INDIANA HOUSE PASSES RIGHT-TO-WORK BILL
- What You Should Know About School Choice
- Online Revolution: Grand Rapids
- Online Revolution: Grand Traverse
- Online Revolution: Southeastern Michigan
- Catching Up With an Old Friend
- Issues & Ideas Forum: The Future of Unionized Government
- Issues and Ideas Forum: The Future of Oil and Gas
- Indiana Right-to-Work Bill Still Stalled
- Michigan's Solyndra?
- Bay City Repeals Prevailing Wage Ordinance
- Michigan celebrates 'School Choice Week'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 24, 2012
- National School Choice Week
- Individual districts can now ‘Race to the Top’
- Center Analysts' Op-Eds Address Right-to-Work Law, Charter Public School Discrimination
- Michigan school’s ‘flipped classrooms’ featured on CNN
- Center Analyst in CS Monitor
- Schools funding increases tied to improvement
- Center Expert Gives Economic Forecast
- Jan. 20, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Workers Are Wonderful, But Where's the Union?
- Center Analyst in Free Press on Film Subsidy Failure
- LaFaive Cited on Emergency Manager Law
- What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean For Indiana
- LaFaive Cited in Bloomberg Businessweek
- Lehman Cited on Gov. Snyder's First Year
- CapCon Cited in Muskegon Chronicle
- Michigan public universities have $4.2 billion in unrestricted assets
- Gov. Snyder’s 2012 State of the State Address Included Five Proposed Government Expansions, One Limitation
- Count of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Available Wednesday Night
- Detroit Public Schools trying to keep Children’s Museum open
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 17, 2012
- MEDC Consultant Busted for ‘Recycling’ Reports
- Trust Us, We Won
- Center Analyst on State of the State Address
- LaFaive Cited on Indiana Right-to-Work Battle
- Saline schools considers mandating ‘Pledge of Allegiance’
- 48 districts post budget deficits, 22 larger than $1 million
- Jan. 13, 2012 MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call
- Number of charter schools to increase slowly
- Opposition to Online Charters Misguided
- A Digital Learning Success Story
- Senator Wants to Track Legislators' Voting Records
- Financial emergency declared in Highland Park School District
- District Refuses to Sell Unused Building to Public Charter School — Despite Receiving $250K Asking Price
- Taxpayers Fund Bureaucratic Back Slapping
- Bay City Amends Prevailing Wage Ordinance
- Congress Mandates the Impossible
- Hohman Cited by Fox on Chevy Volt
- Award-Winning Investigative Reporter Anne Schieber Joins Mackinac Center Communications Team
- Emergency manager needed for Highland Park Schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 10, 2012
- How Long Is Too Long For Unemployment Benefits?
- Breaking News!
- Kersey: End Prevailing Wage
- Carpenters Union Targets Builder Again
- What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean for Indiana — and Michigan
- Schools Should Fund Learning, Not Insurance Companies
- The Puzzling Differences Between Michigan and Indiana in This Recession
- State Alcohol Control Law Expensive, Unfair, Ineffective
- Charter public schools save state $36 million to $52 million
- Michigan public universities under scrutiny
- Bill introduced to expand physical education requirements
- Indiana Leads the Manufacturing Belt
- Federal Judge Rules Against Day Care Owners
- Members named to school quality workgroup
- GlobalWatt: How Corporate Welfare Hurts Real People
- University of Michigan: More Staff, Higher Revenue, Higher Pay ... Wants More Money From Taxpayers
- Kersey Talks RTW on Beckmann
- Book Highlights Failings of Enviro Trends
- LaFaive Op-Ed on State of the State Address
- Every Roll Call Vote by Every State Legislator Tallied for 2011
- Strong Support for Right-to-Work Measures in the Michigan Legislature
- Connecticut School Leaders Propose Bold Reforms
- Surplus, or Excess?
- Michigan's Migration Status Improves
- State halts takeover of Benton Harbor schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 4, 2012
- Right-to-Work Legislation Possible in Indiana
- 'It Really Is Up to the Companies'
- Center Quoted in Wall Street Journal
- LaFaive Cited on GlobalWatt Eviction
- MichiganVotes.org Cited by Several Media Outlets
- Gov. Snyder: School cuts ending
- Schools of choice has led to improved opportunities
- Charter public school cap lifted