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- Legislators Miss 1,626 Votes in 2014
- R.I.P. Paul Gadola
- If Sales Tax is Passed, Michigan Would Have the Second Highest in the U.S.
- 2013-2014 Legislature Last Day Roll Call Report
- Department Reorganization is New Wine in Old Skin
- December 17, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Top 25 of 2014
- No 'Replacement Revenue' for Taxpayers on Roads
- Corporate Welfare for Hollywood Comes First
- The State Budget and Civil Society
- LaFaive: How to Cut $2.1 Billion in Spending
- IMPACT November/December 2014
- More Money for Roads Without Raising Taxes
- Michigan's Parole Policies Waste Money, Need Reform
- Parole, Sentencing Bills Can be Better
- Gov. Snyder’s Detroit Victory Dance Premature
- Economic Freedom Gains in Michigan
- One Step Toward 'Reinventing' Michigan
- Statewide Media Reporting on MEA Salary Hikes
- Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws Need Reform
- Bringing Democracy Back to the Workplace
- Senior Olympics Subsidy Getting Old
- The 12 Fiscal Policy Days of Christmas
- December 5, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Prohibition Repealed 81 Years Ago Today
- Economists Agree: Ride-Sharing Benefits Consumers
- When a School 'Cut' Is an Increase
- How Outraged Is the Right, Really?
- Our Guild-Ridden Labor Market: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
- House Road Plan Is Solid
- RTW 'Freeloader' Claim Still a Farce
- Property Seized, Money Taken – But No Crime
- Mackinac Center Receives Two-Year, $1 Million Research Grant from The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation
- Property Seized, Money Taken – But No Crime
- Top 10 Charter High Schools in 2014
- Vernuccio on Fox News, in The Hill
- Job Churn Shows Futility of Corporate Welfare
- Voters have Diminished Clout in Lame Duck
- Media Reporting on H.S. Report Card
- November 21, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- LaFaive Addresses National Foundation of Women Legislators
- Issues & Ideas Forum Dec. 4 in Lansing
- Second Edition of Michigan High School Report Card Gives ‘Apples-to-Apples’ Comparison of School Performance by Adjusting for Students’ Family Poverty Levels
- The 2014 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card
- Senate Should Take Up HB4001
- Senate Can Promote Accountable Government with House Bill 4001
- Film Subsidy Supporters: Mich. Program a Failure
- Vernuccio Op-Ed in Detroit News
- Bringing Democracy Back to the Workplace
- No, the GOP Did Not Win Because of Gerrymandering
- November 14, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Michigan Bill Could Give Ride-Sharing an Uber Lift
- Winning by Default
- Morris Hood Jr. Educator Development Program
- Vernuccio Cited on Tennessee VW Labor Talks
- Is VW the First Model for 21st Century Unionism?
- Sound Road Funding
- Unionization for the 21st Century: Solutions for the Ailing Labor Movement
- New Study Details How Unions Can Adapt for the 21st Century, Stem Membership Decline
- Mackinac Center and Acton Institute luncheon with F.H. Buckley
- Bankruptcy Judge Calls for Better Pension Funding
- Lehman Discusses Legislative Priorities
- Reitz Cited on Criminal Sentencing Reform
- November 7, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Vernuccio on Unions' Election Day Failure
- Modernizing the Open Meetings Act
- Hey, Tim Skubick!
- 2014 Election Aftermath
- Had Enough of the Political Class Cash Machine? Compact for a Balanced Budget
- Budget Cutting Ideas Abound
- UAW Dues Hike Was Unnecessary
- October 31, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Caught With Their Swimming Trunks Down
- State Budget Follies
- Corporate Welfare and the Michigan Business Tax
- Michigan Education Digest
- IMPACT September/October 2014
- The Science Behind Political Polls
- A 'Silver Lining' to Potholes?
- False Pretenses Should be Put to Rest
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Oct. 28, 2014
- Michigan’s Criminal Code Most Expansive in Region
- Beckmann Cites CapCon on Film Incentives
- Overcriminalizing the Wolverine State: A Primer and Possible Reforms for Michigan
- October 24, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- CapCon Wins Journalism Awards
- Checking the Facts
- Brighton Teachers Union, School Board Acquiesce to Center Lawsuit, Strike Illegal Language from Contract
- Senate Votes to Continue Film Subsidies
- Two-Thirds of School Districts Contract for at Least One Major Support Service, According to Center’s 2014 School Privatization Survey
- Michigan School Privatization
Survey 2014
- Free the Food
- Michigan Education Digest
- Planning for Life Workshop
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Oct. 21, 2014
- Center Research Cited in Daily Caller
- October 17, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- BEA President Unsure What Her Contract Says
- Media Coverage of Center's Latest Lawsuit
- Michigan Has Fewer Film Jobs Than it Did Prior to Incentive Program
- One Sector Grew Last Decade: Corporate Welfare
- Mackinac Center Secures Teacher’s Right to Work
- Brighton Teacher Who Served in Afghanistan Sues Union, School District Over Right-to-Work Violation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Oct. 14, 2014
- October 10, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Detroit News, Free Press Catch Up to CapCon
- Amazon Smile
- Obamacare Could Negatively Impact Women
- Failing to Counter the Big Lie
- Michigan Education Digest
- $2.1 Billion in Michigan Budget Reforms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Oct. 7, 2014
- More Michigan Cities Meeting Financial Needs
- Now Lansing Politicians Want a Poet Laureate!
- LaFaive Cited by Fox News
- Vernuccio Cited in Washington Examiner
- Budget Reform Ideas for 2015 and Beyond
- Making Michigan Right-to-Work: Encouraging School Districts to Follow the Law
- Close MPSERS to Stretch Dollars Further
- October 3, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Michigan Education Digest
- State Legislators Take Care of Themselves
- Center Adds Two New Scholars to Board
- Teacher 'Effectiveness' Ratings Gutted
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Sept. 30, 2014
- Bureaucracy in Iambic Pentameter?
- September 26, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Why the UAW Didn't Need to Hike Dues
- UAW Dues Hike was Unnecessary
- Michigan Education Digest
- MEA Can't Keep Story Straight on Union Bullying
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Sept. 23, 2014
- Right-to-Work Will be Blamed
- SEIU Allowed to Keep Millions in ‘Dues’ Money it Siphoned Away from Medicaid in Stealth Unionization, Court of Appeals Rules
- PBS Series Ignores Damage of 'The New Deal'
- September 19, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Senate Approves 'Talk Like a Pirate' Resolution
- Scots Say 'Yes' to Independence
- Feeling Fine About the End of the World
- Happy Constitution Day
- Michigan Education Digest
- Government Transparency Bill Stalled in Senate
- CapCon Takes Former Clinton Official to Task
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Sept. 16, 2014
- Economic Freedom: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Grasping At Taxes to Pay for Pensions
- September 12, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Economic Freedom and Prosperity
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Sept. 9, 2014
- Wright on Sunday Morning Program Talking RTW
- Where $100 Million Buys Little: Michigan School Employee Pension Fund
- State Budget Has Low-Hanging Fruit, Too
- What Proposal 1 Means for Michigan Going Forward
- September 5, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Disdain for Politics Gov. Snyder's Undoing?
- News Coverage of MEA's Illegal 'August Window'
- Labor Law Judge Rules MEA’s So-Called ‘August Window’ Is Illegal
- Michigan Education Digest
- Survey Finds Issues With One-Quarter of Teacher Contracts Regarding Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law
- Making Michigan Right-to-Work: Implementation Problems in Public Schools
- Making Michigan Right-to-Work:
Implementation Problems in Public Schools
- Officials Caved to Red Wings on Corporate Welfare
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
Sept. 2, 2014
- Detroit City Council, State Legislature Caved to Red Wings' Demands
- Media Continues Reporting on Teacher Opt Outs
- More Teachers Than Ever Now Know Opt-Out Rights
- The Story of a True Hero Spreads
- A Uniquely Overqualified Candidate
- Right-to-Work, Tax Rates Paint Interesting Picture
- MEDC Approves Corporate Welfare for Dealership
- Michigan Education Digest
- Vernuccio: UAW Facing Big Problems
- Vernuccio in 'Great Communicators Tournament'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
August 26, 2014
- AP Story on Teacher Opt Outs Goes National
- Gov. Granholm Teaching Class on Job Creation
- August 22, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Report
- Media Continues to Cover MEA's 'August Window'
- Small Tent or Big Tent?
- Michigan Education Digest
- Teacher Explains Why He Left the MEA
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
August 19, 2014
- Detroit News Editorial on MEA's 'August Window'
- Unintended Consequences: Cigarette Excise Taxes and Smuggling
- August 15, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- 'Competitiveness' Outlook Ranks Michigan 12th Best
- Spalding Writes on Worker Freedom at Townhall
- Michigan Education Digest
- Texas Looks to Decrease Occupational Licensing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
August 12, 2014
- Flanagan Goes too Far on Charter Schools
- Mackinac Center Joins Nationwide Effort to Celebrate Employee Freedom Week
- August 8, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Pension Systems Hurt Workers, Taxpayers
- Skorup on WSJ's 'Opinion Journal Live'
- Vernuccio Discusses 'August Window' for Teachers
- Michigan Education Digest
- Job Announcements Don't Equal Job Creation
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
August 5, 2014
- Enter the 'Great Communicators Tournament'
- State, National Media Report on MEA Opt Out
- Truth Squad’s Failed Proposal 1 Fact Check
- Teachers’ Window of Opportunity Is Now Open
- Supreme Court Ends ‘Dues Skim’ Nationwide
- State Budget Savings Idea: Eliminate Revenue Sharing
- August 1, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Remembering Milton Friedman on His 102nd Birthday
- IMPACT July/August 2014
- Dr. Friedman's Vision for Education
- F. Vincent Vernuccio cited in Teacher Freedom Article
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
July 29, 2014
- Dire Predictions of Right-to-Work Didn't Come True
- Mackinac Center's effectiveness cited on Fox News and Watchdog.org
- July 25, 2014, Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Why are RTW States Gaining Population?
- Hohman on Personal Property Tax in Detroit News
- New Evidence: Right-to-Work Laws Work
- More Confusion Over 'Affordable Care Act'
- Obamacare's Survival up to State Legislators
- Exploring the Political Climate of Climate Change
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
July 22, 2014
- School Support Service Privatization: Saving Money, Improving Quality
- Statewide Media Cite Center on Prop 1
- July 18, 2014, Michigan Legislature Roll Call Report
- Sentencing Reforms Could Save Tax Dollars
- Hohman to talk at 'Detroit Rising' Panel Friday
- Pension Malpractice and Fund Raids
- Michigan Future Report Doesn't Add Up
- Michigan Education Digest
- Andrew Kaluza, RIP
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
July 15, 2014
- What Do Teachers Want to Support?
- July 11, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Agricultural Price Controls are the Pits
- Unions' Bark Worse Than Their Bite
- Vernuccio, Spalding on WILS in Lansing
- Labor's Unfired Shot Heard Round the Country
- McHugh: Campaign Finance Laws 'Weaponized'
- Political Free Speech on the 'Down Escalator'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
July 8, 2014
- The Free Enterprise Philosophy
in a 12-Cell Matrix
- August Opt Out Featured in Detroit News
- Lehman Cited in National Review
- MEA Upset at Having to Follow State Law
- Fears of Right-to-Work Proving False
- The Machinations Behind Michigan’s Minimum Wage Hike
- What the 4th of July Means to Me
- July 3, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Supreme Court Ends Dues Skim Nationwide
- Happy Birthday, America
- Detroit News: MERC Ruling a 'Win' for Students
- Wilcox in Detroit News
- Policy Brief: Proposal 1 Would Result in Net $500 Million Tax Break Annually
- Proposal 1 of 2014:
Summary and Assessment
- Reitz in The American Spectator
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
July 1, 2014
- Supreme Court Takes One Step Away from Forced Unionization
- Media Cite Center on Supreme Court Case
- Insurance 52% to 119% Costlier Under Obamacare
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Home-Based Caregivers in Nine States Free from Union Dues Skim
- June 27, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- MEA Embraces More Outsourcing
- TTB a Poor Measure of Charter Performance
- Vernuccio Discusses the MEA's 'August Window'
- Thinking Outside the School Box
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
June 24, 2014
- Gongwer, MIRS Cover MERC Ruling
- June 20, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Tax Foundation Takes On Michigan Future Report
- Michigan Employment Relations Commission Rules Again that Graduate Student Research Assistants Cannot be Unionized
- Repeal Post and Hold Alcohol Rules
- Fox Covers MEA's Attack on Teachers
- Mackinac Center Requests Michigan Liquor Control Commission Rescind Rule Requiring ‘Post and Hold’ for Beer and Wine Prices
- MEA Upset at Having to Follow State Law
- Oh, The Things You Will Learn
- Vernuccio Discusses MEA's Attack on Teachers
- Michigan vs. Minnesota Report Says Little About What Policies To Pursue
- Washington Examiner: MEA Attacking Teachers
- Skorup on WNEM-TV5
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
June 17, 2014
- A Vision for Michigan's Future
- June 13, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Raising the Minimum Wage
- Low-Hanging Fruit Can Help Fund Roads
- RTW States Lead the Way
- Media Details Center Efforts to Help Teachers
- Reitz Cited on Government Transparency
- Grazed and Confused
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
June 10, 2014
- How to Mitigate the Damage Caused by Michigan’s New Minimum Wage Hike and Why More Labor Reforms Are Necessary
- Mackinac Center Unveils New Website to Help MEA Members Opt Out During ‘August Window’
- Agenda for Detroit: What Role Should State Play Post-Bankruptcy?
- Teacher Unions Agree to Faulty Contracts in Order to Maintain Mandatory Dues
- Detroit’s Dilemma Tests Lansing’s Leadership
- June 6, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Media Reports on Center Request
- May 30, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Fears of Right-to-Work Proving False
- Mackinac Center Requests Michigan Employment Relations Commission Create New Rule Requiring Public-Sector Unions to Notify Members of Opt-Out Windows
- UAW v. Green
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
June 3, 2014
- Lehman, LaFaive in Wall Street Journal
- IMPACT May/June 2014
- Lawmakers Misrepresent Detroit Pension Bill
- Select Few Benefit from Film Subsidies
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
May 27, 2014
- Thank Heaven We Have a Full-Time Legislature
- May 23, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Media Misinterpreting Detroit Pension Bill
- Legislature Lacks Credibility in Detroit Bailout
- Money For Detroit Is Clearly a Bailout
- False Fears About Fracking
- Gov's Immigration Reform Isn't Bold Enough
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
May 20, 2014
- The Detroit Bailout and Meaningful Pension Reform
- Gov. Snyder Is Right
- Detroit Bailout Discussion at Noon Tuesday
- LaFaive in Free Press
- Detroit Bailout Without Pension Reform Is Political Malpractice
- LaFaive Discusses Detroit Bailout
- Minimum Wage Issue a Battle of Election Year Gimmicks
- Center in Wall Street Journal Consecutive Days
- MEA: Too Many People Making $ Off Public Schools
- Closing Pensions a Litmus Test for Detroit Reform
- Alleged ‘Transition Costs’ Avoidable In Detroit
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
May 13, 2014
- Detroit Bailout Package
- Wage Hike Bad for Tipped Workers
- Skorup Discusses Hollywood Corporate Welfare
- Wage Hike Would Hurt Tipped Workers
- Reforming Michigan's Civil Asset Forfeiture Law
- Detroit Bailout Solved: Sell Just ONE Painting
- Corporate Welfare for 'Millionaire Movie Makers'
- Statewide Taxpayers on the Hook for Detroit?
- The Debate Over School Spending
- Detroit 'Openly and Notoriously' Went Bankrupt
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
May 6, 2014
- Mackinac Center Experts Available to Discuss Gov. Snyder’s Detroit Bailout Plan
- More Detroit Favors Piled On Top of Other Favors
- Teamsters Local 214 Drops Legal Claims Against Dearborn Employees Who Exercised Worker Freedom Rights
- Privatizing Detroit Department of Transportation Would Save City Millions
- Cigarette Smuggling Still Rampant in Michigan, Nation
- Michigan Taxpayers Paying More Money for Fewer Workers
- State, National Media on SEIU's Downward Spiral
- Cigarette Smuggling Undermines Tax Revenue
- 'Binding' Taxpayers to Detroit
- Detroit Should Sell Some Paintings and More
- SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent
- Art Sales and Angry Journalism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
April 29, 2014
- Can Detroit Bailout Sneak Past GOP Legislature?
- Detroit Charter Student a Potential Ivy Leaguer
- A Center-Right Candidate Questionnaire that Digs Deeper
- How to Pass a Detroit Bailout the Majority Party Opposes
- Public-Private Partnerships: The Good, Bad and Ugly
- Seventy-Five Percent of Michigan Voters Think Local, Family-Owned Businesses Will Have More Difficulty Adjusting to Higher Minimum Wage
- Everyone Should Have an Opportunity to Prosper
- Utah's Lessons for Michigan Pension Reform
- Corporate Welfare for Hockey Pucks or Burgers?
- Center Files Brief at U.S. Supreme Court
- How States Are Fixing Pension Problems – And Michigan Can Too
- How to Make Michigan Schools More Expensive
- More Good News for Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
April 22, 2014
- Ticket Sales a Matter of Property Rights
- It's All in How You Ask the Question
- Perry: Ticket Resales Should be Unregulated
- Detroit Should Sell Some Paintings
- Detroit Bailout Makes for Strange Bedfellows
- Mackinac Center Executive Vice President Michael J. Reitz Joins Board of Michigan Coalition for Open Government
- Michigan State Budget Process Allows For Plausible Deniability
- More State Favors for Detroit
- Michigan Capitol Confidential honored by Detroit Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists
- Minimum Wage Hike About Politics, not People
- Center Experts in Detroit News
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
April 15, 2014
- Detroit EM Considering Center Proposals
- Large Majority of Republican, Independent Voters Object to Gov. Snyder’s Detroit Bailout Plan, According to New Polling Numbers
- Detroit’s Special Favors Add Up
- Government Subsidies Run Amok
- More Higher Ed Spending Questionable
- Road Funding: Getting the Priorities Right
- Vernuccio Cited on President's Ann Arbor Visit
- Amtrak Subsidy Takes Money from Roads
- Maine Cigarette Tax Hike Would Have Undermined Health Goals
- Center Adds New Scholar to Team
- Center Scholar in Wall Street Journal
- IMPACT March/April 2014
- The Winners and Losers in Detroit Bankruptcy
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
April 8, 2014
- A Letter to Ranny Riecker on 50 Years of Service
- RIP Ranny Riecker
- April 4, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Trim Corporate Welfare to $0
- Pension Debt: Not Just a Problem in Detroit
- Legislative Reforms in 2013 Leave Much to be Desired
- Corporate Welfare for New Red Wings Arena Won't Spur Economic Development
- A Better Way to Protect Detroit Pensioners
- Collective Bargaining Reform:
Are Districts in Conflict With State Law?
- March 28, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Michigan Education Association Misleading Voters
- MEA President's Math in Detroit News Questioned
- Medicaid Expansion Studies Weren't Trustworthy
- Center Scholar's Commentary at MLive.com
- Right-to-Work States See Larger Gains
- Happy Birthday Norman Borlaug
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
March 25, 2014
- Emergency Manager Model Brings Fiscal Security to Pontiac
- College Spending Results Questioned
- Column: When Silence Speaks Volumes
- More Problems with Ferndale Teacher Contract
- Center Research in Time, Washington Post
- CapCon Story on Ferndale Draws Attention
- Teacher Who Left MEA Explains Why
- Asset Forfeiture Laws Threaten Property Rights
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
March 18, 2014
- A Decade On: Center Beats MEA in Union's Assault on Free Speech
- Free-Market Approaches to Immigration Reform
- Right-to-Work Should be Judged on Economic Data
- The Mackinac Center, Free Speech and the MEA
- Moderate Steps for Brewers, Industry Freedom
- Hospital Union Continues to Bully Employees
- Sunshine Week 2014
- Happy Anniversary Proposal A
- SEIU Fined for Campaign Finance Violations
- Teacher Speaks Out on Union Bullying
- Liberty and Character – The Indispensable Connection
- Lopez on Fox Business
- What a Union Looks Like in a RTW State
- Economics 101: Minimum Wage Kills Jobs
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
March 11, 2014
- Not Pretty: 2013 Legislative Roundup
- LaFaive Proven Right on Cigarette Tax Hike
- Vernuccio on Worker Freedom
- Teachers Victorious Over MEA
- March 7, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Michigan Education Association Gives Up Fight Against Two Teachers Who Exercised Worker Freedom Rights
- Electricity Competition in Illinois
- Other Michigan Cities in Pension Debt
- McHugh Discusses Budget on WILS
- Majority of State’s Largest School Districts Have Language Prohibited by State Law in Their Contracts; Includes Teacher Evaluations, Layoffs, Seniority
- Roadblocks to Reform?: A Review of Union Contracts in Michigan Schools
- Roadblocks to Reform?: A Review of Union Contracts in Michigan Schools
- Why Good Tax Reform is Difficult
- Detroit News, Free Press Cover MCLF Lawsuit
- Look at Municipal Finance Trends Before Pumping In More Money
- February 28, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Mackinac Scholar in Wall Street Journal
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Files Suit in Oakland County on Behalf of 39-Year Teaching Veteran to Prevent MEA Harassment
- Michigan's 'Pay It Forward' College Tuition Plan Will Equal Higher Costs
- What Right-to-Work Means
- Tuition Plan Would Make College More Expensive
- Displaced: How Michigan Districts Are Ignoring Anti-Seniority Reforms
- Detroit’s Spruce Goose – City Airport
- Why Michigan Needs a Tax Cut
- Fairy Tale Minimum Wage Economics
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
March 4, 2014
- IMPACT January/February 2014
- Politicians Should Stand Up for Taxpayers
- Detroit: Possibility of Real Privatization, Savings
- Center Expert, Board Member Discuss Detroit
- Mackinac Center Experts Available to Discuss Detroit Bankruptcy Plan
- Looking to Pontiac for Detroit Solutions
- Spalding Op-Ed on School Choice
- School Choice Helps Families Access Better Schools
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
February 18, 2014
- State Economic Outlook from David Littmann
- Mackinac Center’s VoteSpotter App Allows Constituents to Give Legislators Immediate Feedback on How They Voted
- VoteSpotter App Draws Media Attention
- VW Vote Shows 'Card Check' Still a Fraud
- Spalding on Fox2 Detroit
- Analysis: Michigan’s Cigarette Smuggling Rate Falls Slightly; State Still in Top 10 Nationally
- Cigarette Smuggling Still Rampant in Michigan, Nation
- February 14, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Commentary: Focus on Post-Secondary Education Shifting
- Analysis: Misleading Commercial on Electric Rates
- Vernuccio on PBS News Hour
- State GDPs vs. Comparable Nations
- Districts Asking for More Money Already Getting It
- Union Bullying Story Draws National Attention
- Trim Corporate Welfare to $0
- Ag Still Not Michigan's 2nd Largest Industry
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
February 11, 2014
- Farm Bill Full of Corporate Welfare
- Corporate Welfare Schemes Need Transparency
- The Best Plan for Michigan Tax Reform
- Do Politicians Understand Economics?
- Commentary: A Legislative Agenda for 2014
- $1 Trillion Farm Bill Full of Subsidies, Special Favors
- February 7, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Michigan Still Underfunding Teacher Pensions
- Center Adds Three New Scholars to Board
- Mark Schauer's Support for Corporate Welfare
- Littmann Testimony on SB 402
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
February 4, 2014
- Scholarship Endowment Created in Honor of Teri Olson
- There Is No Good Reason the MEDC Should Exist
- Free Press: School Funding Up Under Gov. Snyder
- Skorup on 'West Michigan Week'
- Detroit Should Look to Pontiac
- The World Is Getting Better and Better
- Vague Criminal Laws Threaten Individual Liberty and Burden the Justice System
- January 31, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- State Loses 200,000 Jobs, MEDC Finds 2,185
- Detroit's Spruce Goose: City Airport
- Harming the Competition
- Vernuccio on Benefits of RTW for Missouri
- Can Detroit Replicate Pontiac's Success?
- State Revenue Estimating Conference Needs Better Estimating
- Wages Rise in Right-to-Work States
- The Ticket: The Many Faces of School Choice
- Will Legislature Keep Tax Cut Promise?
- Happy National School Choice Week!
- MDOT Subsidy Numbers Off Track
- Commentary: Higher Ed Spending Myths
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
January 28, 2014
- LaFaive Cited on Minimum Wage in GR Press
- MDOT Response to Mackinac Center Amtrak Piece
- 'Business Improvement Zones' = Property Taxes
- January 24, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- The Importance of Real Equality
- Commentary: Your Pledge for Detroit
- Center Experts Cited on Detroit Bailout
- Money for Nothing
- Wright Discusses Supreme Court Visit on WJR
- Asking Questions to Help Cut Through the Political Fog
- Mackinac Center Expert Available to Discuss Detroit Bail Out
- Expanding the Electricity Market: A Good Choice for Consumers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
January 21, 2014
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2013
- Two-Thirds of School Districts Contract for at Least One Major Support Service, According to Center’s 2013 School Privatization Survey
- George Will Cites CapCon in Washington Post
- The Certificate of Need 'CON' Job
- Facts, Not Fiction, on State School Spending
- Gov. Snyder Keeps Pace in State of the State
- January 17, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Policy Experts Comment on Governor's Speech
- Center Scholar in Detroit News
- Skorup Debates Minimum Wage
- Little Disclosure on Business Subsidies
- Gov. Snyder’s 2014 State of the State Address Included Six Proposed Government Expansions, Two Limitations
- Don't Bail Out Detroit with State Tax Dollars
- Lockwood's Belle Isle Idea in Wall Street Journal
- CapCon Story Draws National Media Attention
- Vernuccio Testifies on Missouri Right-to-Work
- Commentary: RTW States Doing Better
- Corporate Welfare Scheme Back With New Name
- City of Westland Restructures FOIA Fees in Response to Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Lawsuit
- January 10, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report
- Michigan Needs Better Forfeiture Laws
- Minimum Wage Earners: Many Still Live at Home
- Detroit Needs More 'From the Heart' Transactions, Less Government
- Why Detroit Pensions are Underfunded
- Can Tea Parties Succeed Again?
- What Economic Development Transparency Should Look Like
- Michigan Students Need Private School Choice
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
January 7, 2014
- Highland Park: The Road to Recovery
- Detroit: Reforms and Recommendations
- Media Highlight 'Missed Votes' Report
- Batman and Superman vs. Taxpayers
- Minimum Wage, Minimum Employment
- Center Research Question Addressed
- Administrative Law Judge Recommends Dismissal of Taylor Teachers’ Challenge to Decade-Long Forced Dues Extension
- Minimum Wage Drumbeat Grows Louder
- The World Is Getting Better and Better
- Public-Private Compensation Gaps Still With Us
- Tax Cut ‘Fever’?