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- Public Service Commission ruling on the Line 5 Tunnel is a small pre-holiday win for Michiganders
- Michigan’s school funding amendment is a harmful relic
- History lessons for policymakers pondering our population problem
- Mackinac Center in the news: Whitmer brings on the night
- School spending plan doesn’t make the grade
- Court of Claims Rejects Permanent Income Tax Cut
- Dear population council: There’s a labor elephant in the room
- Regional Director of Strategic Partnerships
- Whitmer’s population council shoots blanks
- Human costs of electric vehicles
- Reforming Union Contracts Can Improve Policing
- How To Improve Policing Through Collective Bargaining Reforms
- Police Contracts Analyzed for the 2023 Police Collective Bargaining Reforms Study
- ‘I just think that’s a success, right?’
- Taxes matter to Michigan’s population growth
- Blaming homeschoolers for foster abuse is a dodge
- History lessons for policymakers pondering our population problem
- IMPACT November/December 2023
- Michigan population council looks for growth in all the wrong places
- Why you should never believe corporate welfare promises
- Electric vehicles scar the environment
- Michigan’s school funding amendment is a harmful relic
- Great Lakes Tunnel a case study in why it is so expensive to build in the United States
- Let consumer choice drive the shape of the auto market
- Public Service Commission ruling on the Line 5 Tunnel is a small pre-holiday win for Michiganders
- ‘They can embrace radical policies with no repercussions’
- Matthew Schafer, Harry Hucklebury and Lilly Hucklebury v. Kent County
- Michigan Population Loss Can’t Be Solved Without Broad Economic Reforms
- How to Make Michigan Grow
- Michigan taxpayers will lose on Ford deal
- Has the first tax hike of 2024 just dropped?
- Michigan barbers bob, weave around punishing regulations
- State broadband plan won’t help rural communities
- Has the first tax hike of 2024 just dropped?
- Love nature? Thank a hunter
- Janus had a large impact on union membership, five years later
- Price controls lead to drug shortages
- Nobody Is buying what Gretchen Whitmer is selling
- ‘Our civilization, our democracy, our society depend on that’
- The trade-offs of paid leave policies
- Michigan growth officer wrong on taxes and growth
- Love nature? Thank a hunter
- State broadband plan won’t help rural communities
- Let’s Build: Why Michigan Should Embrace Zoning Reform
- Michigan politicians submit more bills hamstringing property owners
- ‘That is what makes health care so different from every other sector of the economy’
- Let nurse practitioners do their jobs
- Bureaucrats Are Setting Up Michigan Broadband Funds to Fail
- Good Manners and Good Policy: How civility can help renew Michigan’s political culture
- Michigan lawmakers should aim for the least harmful net zero plan
- The Michigan High-Speed Internet Office’s BEAD Proposal
- Michigan Energy Plan: At Least $200 Billion For Wind, Solar and Corporate Profits With No Effect On Global Climate
- Time for a 180 on Michigan 360
- Right-to-work was key to pandemic recovery
- Lynette Hathon and Amy Jo Denkins v. State of Michigan
- Michigan cities ban short-term rentals — a black market is sure to follow
- Now is not the time to throw out teacher standards
- Note to Michigan’s population council: Research favors freedom
- IMPACT September/October 2023
- Transit reformers ask all the wrong questions
- New Energy Bills Would Increase Costs and Blackouts
- Three years later, Michigan court rules Michigan State illegally withheld information
- Michigan bill would prevent housing providers from checking renters’ criminal records
- Fixing FOIA
- Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act Must Be Significantly Reformed
- Whitmer gets it right on auto insurance
- Now is not the time to throw out teacher standards
- Fountain of youth won’t help mire of Michigan
- ‘The moral argument is what wins’
- Michigan Treasurer Should Recognize Permanent Tax Cut
- Health Policy Changes in Michigan: Recommendations and Warnings
- Michigan cities ban short-term rentals — a black market is sure to follow
- Politicians and interest groups used fear to hike pilot regulations
- Mackinac Center in the news: Auto workers on strike
- Note to Michigan’s population council: Research favors freedom
- Teacher Evaluations Improve Both Student and Teacher Performance
- Renter’s ‘Bill of Rights’ would spike Michigan housing costs
- Michigan still has a way to go in reforming civil asset forfeiture, new report shows
- ‘We have to protect the parents who trust their kids with some independence’
- State’s electric system not meeting basic test of reliability
- Teacher retirement bill is a step backward
- What to know about the land value tax proposal
- Occupational Hazard: State Licensing Laws in Michigan
- Income Tax Lawsuit Should Continue
- Three reasons Michigan's budget is unsustainable
- Brief Says States Must Obtain Direct Consent From Employees Before Withholding Union Dues
- Whitmer abuse of emergency powers is déjà vu all over again
- Michigan loses in UAW strike
- Michigan test results show big COVID-era learning loss
- Michigan loses in UAW strike
- State of Alaska v. Alaska State Employees Association/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 52, AFL-CIO
- How popular are unions?
- At least we’re not New York
- Mackinac Center sues state treasurer over tax cut
- Renewable energy or bust?
- Michigan Court of Appeals Affirms Property Owners' Rights
- ‘Thirty to forty years ago, this was actually a debatable question. Now that we have the data in hand it’s much less debatable’
- Federal bill would provide choices for consumers and strengthen the supply chain
- Whitmer abuse of emergency powers is déjà vu all over again
- Canary in a cigarette-smuggling coal mine
- Let Them Grow:
How Michigan Can Encourage Free-Range Kids
- Michigan test results show big post-COVID learning loss
- Teachers union president: Focus on politics, not on bargaining, wages, education
- Opposition to HB 4688
- Unlocking Economic Opportunity in Michigan
- Let’s Get to Work
- 'Free' preschool will hinder low-income families in Michigan
- Two cheers for Whitmer’s permitting order
- ‘If that sounds outrageous and corrupt, it’s because it is’
- Federal court severely curtails civil asset forfeiture in Michigan
- Long Lake Township v. Maxon
- How public policy can help kids build resiliency
- Michigan Reconnect needs reform
- Corporate welfare is no way to run a state
- IMPACT July/August 2023
- MISO’s Maximum Generation Event is a clear warning
- Auto buyers have good reasons for avoiding e-cars
- Whitmer hypes biz subsidies as state economy stagnates
- Dude, where’s your car?
- Punishing landlords will make the housing crisis worse
- Michigan’s got the bloated budget blues
- Sound public policy, not advertising, will attract more Michigan residents
- ‘Now it’s simply referred to as the Overton Window, as if everyone knows what it is’
- Mackinac Center Sues to Preserve $700 Million Tax Cut
- Mackinac Center Files Suit to Defend Income Tax Reduction
- Planning for Life Workshop
- The Union Takeover of Michigan?
- Clean energy isn’t clean
- Challenging Biden’s New Student Loan Debt Cancellation
- ‘The power of these policies is to individualize education for children’
- Punishing landlords will make the housing crisis worse
- Déjà vu: Michigan going all-in on taxpayer-subsidized battery plants
- Lawmakers authorize another $800 million in business subsidies
- Mackinac Center Joins NCLA Lawsuit Contesting Biden’s New Student Loan Debt Cancellation
- Hohman: Tax/spend policies depress household income
- Whitmer hypes biz subsidies as state economy stagnates
- Event Cancelled
Can Michigan Buy Its Way to Growth?
- Challenge to Michigan’s Blaine Amendment Heard by U.S. Appeals Court
- Regulations keep coming, algae keep blooming
- How the Michigan Legislature is Spending Your Tax Money
- Send Michigan your licensed masses
- Mackinac Center Remembers Former Michigan Rep. Gary Glenn
- ‘This is my home and I’m going to fight for this thing’
- Disconnect with Michigan Reconnect continues
- Michigan spending is unsustainable
- Even the rich aren’t rich enough to save us
- Record-breaking school aid budget ignores proven ways of improving student achievement
- Michigan offered one company more subsidies than the budget of a dozen state departments
- Dude, where’s your car?
- In Michigan, earmarks are not cricket
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Michigan makes post-COVID education crisis worse
- Employees' First Amendment Rights Deserve Protection
- How the Michigan Legislature is Spending Your Tax Money
- Michigan’s top-10 hit
- Anderson Federation of Teachers, et al. v. Todd Rokita
- It’s like Lenin said: You ask who benefits, and, uh, you know
- Can Michigan Buy Its Way to Growth?
- Michigan property owners watch New York Airbnb suit
- ‘They say it adds up to real money’
- Record-breaking school aid budget ignores proven ways of improving student achievement
- Once again, it's not the climate, it's the fuel
- Mackinac Center Sues Michigan State for Redacting Info About Megasite
- Mackinac Center Sues MSU For Improperly Redacting Land Use Agreement
- Even the rich aren’t rich enough to save us
- When public laws are private policy
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is killing nuclear energy
- Michigan spending is unsustainable
- Mackinac Center Will Continue Student Loan Deferment Challenge
- The legacy of the Overton Window
- IMPACT May/June 2023
- ‘Sometimes cynical explanations are the correct ones’
- America needs higher standards
- Planning for Life Workshop
- Budget Based on False Revenue Assumption
- Don’t put the screws to insurers
- Don’t panic over the reefs
- Promoting the Values of Freedom and Entrepreneurship at the Grassroots in Nepal
- Preserve Important Labor Reforms
- Blackout Bills Are Dangerous and Economy-Crushing
- Michigan’s Blackout Bills
- Minimum wage does maximum damage
- Only who can prevent forest fires?
- Michigan Senate takes aim at licensing hunting, fishing guides
- Michigan budget could use more restraint
- COVID flexibilities that should outlive COVID-19
- ‘Argument is the great source of political power’
- New Report Shows Large Drop in Union Membership Five Years After Janus Decision
- Higher Excise Taxes Lead to More Interstate Smuggling
- The Janus Effect
- Recent Supreme Court Case Could Vindicate Michigan Property Owner’s Claim Against Government Overreach
- Michigan growth czar should know where to look
- Earth, wind and emergencies
- Populists aren’t so popular
- Only who can prevent forest fires?
- Senate bill would make energy costs worse
- Whitmer picks wrong strategy to improve state economy
- Michigan advocates admit solar still can’t compete
- ‘The federal government has stepped in and broken the market’
- Michigan should focus its broadband money
- Michigan budget could use more restraint
- Does ‘free’ community college provide value for graduates?
- Property Owners Win Big in Two Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Rulings
- Traverse City fiber network spiking in costs, lacking in customers
- Productivity Credits Incentivize Participation in Educational and Vocational Programs
- Don’t ask ALICE
- If the ‘free rider’ is a problem for unions, why don’t they solve it?
- Michigan drops the ball with teacher evaluation system
- ‘The Great Depression pushed relegalization into the Overton Window’
- Michigan Senate takes aim at licensing hunting, fishing guides
- Florida sets the stage for labor reforms
- Tennessee Signs Historic Law Linking State Economic Incentives to Private-Ballot Protections
- Mackinac Center Asks Federal Court to Halt Unlawful Student Loan Payment Pause
- An Evening with the Mackinac Center
- AFSCME has lost 200K-plus members and fee-payers nationwide since Janus decision
- Florida Enshrines Aggressive Worker Freedom Bills into Law
- Prohibition repeal tasted great, but the New Deal was less filling
- Prevailing Wage Laws Significantly Increase Road Construction Costs
- The Costs of Prevailing Wage: Evidence From State Road Construction Spending
- Changes to School Counselor Licenses
- Budget ’24: Cut Michigan Strategic Fund Money
- Correctional Officers and PERA
- Modifying Teacher Certification Requirements
- Michigan drops the ball with teacher evaluation system
- ‘It’s focused on destroying credibility instead of dealing with facts’
- Amy Green: 1971-2023
- Don’t ask ALICE
- Florida Legislature passes bill ending union dues deductions
- ‘Scaffolding for Plunder’
- IMPACT March/April 2023
- ‘I think that’s a little bit of political cowardice’
- If the ‘free rider’ is a problem for unions, why don’t they solve it?
- Unions Can’t Discriminate Against Non-Members
- Tax credit gives organized labor blank check for union spending
- Michigan deserves accountability for Medicaid
- More money, fewer riders for Michigan transit
- Student loan ‘pause’ costs taxpayers $5 billion a month
- Pure Michigan is pure secrecy
- The union takeover has arrived in Michigan
- Technical Professional and Officeworkers Association of Michigan v. Daniel Lee Renner 2023’
- Where's the sunlight in Lansing?
- Opposition to SB 169 and 185
- Cigarette taxes turn New York into smuggling empire
- “No-more-stringent” Requirements Protect Michigan Businesses
- Budget for a permanent tax cut
- Unions cling to monopoly on bargaining
- Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game
- Who’s afraid of measuring teacher performance?
- Let pharmacists provide more medical services
- Pure Michigan is pure secrecy
- ‘A conservationist is an environmentalist with a chainsaw’
- Student loan ‘pause’ costs taxpayers $5 billion a month
- New Civil Liberties Alliance and Mackinac Center Challenge Unlawful Extensions of Federal Student Loan Deferments
- Holding the Department of Education Accountable for Illegally Extending Student Loan Deferrals
- Nessel opinion not binding on courts
- More money, fewer riders for Michigan transit
- Repealing Right-to-Work is a Massive, Unforced Error
- ‘I didn’t think courts had that ability, and I still don’t’
- Whitmer targets online charter schools that serve needy kids
- Michigan’s coming energy crisis will be man-made
- The weak support for mandatory payments to unions
- Biden: Let them eat Hummers
- Polls on Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law
- If we give colleges even more money, will they keep tuition down?
- Michigan’s economy needs to catch up
- Universal pre-K not off to a Great Start
- Michigan must choose top-down or bottom-up
- Is more money the answer to learning loss in Michigan?
- The Whitmer agenda is a sop to the rich
- Economic Freedom: Across the World and in the States
- The supremacy clause: Michigan Constitution ranks below its federal counterpart
- The feds can’t find the Supreme Court leaker. You think they can fix climate change?
- Hohman on EITC: Don’t call it a tax cut
- Michigan’s bizarre negative tax
- Threats to Economic Freedom: The Problem with Externality Arguments
- Four wrong questions being asked in Michigan policy debates
- CapCon’s Michigan Constitution Project: What we hope to achieve
- School accountability bill gets failing grade
- Hohman: Is a tax hike coming in Michigan in 2023?
- Mackinac Center Welcomes Health Policy Advisor
- Give patients freedom to dial for doctors
- Say No to prevailing wage
- ‘They delivered on what they said they were going to do’
- Right-to-Work Turns Ten: The Law and Its Benefits
- Supreme Court takes on ‘equity theft’
- After 10 Years, It’s Clear Right-to-Work Benefits Michigan
- Repealing Right-to-Work Would be Disastrous for Michigan Workers and Economy
- Repealing Right-to-Work is a bad deal for Michigan autoworkers
- The Michigan Education Association Improperly Took COVID-19 Relief Funds
- Corporate welfare is Michigan Democrats’ top priority
- Holding MEA and MESSA Accountable for Wrongfully Receiving Taxpayer-Funded Loans
- Will Michigan politicians force workers to pay corrupt unions?
- Grand Rapids charter school makes engineers and pilots
- Get more competitive on taxes
- The United States of free?
- Michigan’s amped-up budget
- ‘I don’t appear to have any effect at all on most Republican office holders but I’m not going to stop trying’
- Michigan still below national average for post-high school education rate
- If we give colleges even more money, will they keep tuition down?
- Under Democratic rule, Lansing is headed back in time
- Is more money the answer to learning loss in Michigan?
- Michigan Disconnect: Whitmer education proposals don’t inspire confidence
- Michigan shouldn’t worry about becoming a ‘climate haven’
- Universal pre-K plan not off to a Great Start
- Michigan’s economy needs to catch up
- The notion of Gotion
- ‘Decarbonization has really thrown a wrench into the gears’
- House Votes to Thwart Income Tax Cut And Give Away $1.65 Billion in Corporate Welfare
- Schools get rich, deliver poor results
- Vote NO on HB 4001
- Tax cut statute is designed to create lower rates
- IMPACT January/February 2023
- Lawmakers Should Pass a Sustainable Michigan Budget
- Pass a Sustainable Michigan Budget
- Michigan lawmakers fail to turn business subsidies into job growth
- In Lansing and Washington, lawmakers move past COVID concern
- Mackinac Center for Public Policy Announces Mackinac Center Action
- Union membership in the United States is smallest ever recorded
- Federal program forces drug companies to fund hospital profits
- Civil Asset Forfeiture in Michigan Should End
- Why Michigan Should End Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Is more money the answer to learning loss in Michigan?
- Streetcar still undesired in Detroit
- Mackinac Center adds $450 million to corporate welfare scorecard for Michigan lawmakers
- Some lawmakers want to cook the books to avoid a tax cut
- Secretive State Spending Spree a Bad Deal for Taxpayers
- Michigan Disconnect: Whitmer education proposals don’t inspire confidence
- ‘It’s the message that hopefully I can carry on behalf of Michigan families’
- Research Finds Prison Education Programs Reduce Recidivism
- National School Choice Week
- Feeding-the-sparrows-through-the-horse economics
- Whitmer Plays Favorites, Misfires on Broad Economic Growth Strategy
- Mackinac Center Announces 2023 Policy Priorities
- 2023 Public Policy Recommendations
- Families Continue Challenge to Michigan’s Bigoted Blaine Amendment
- Natural gas feeds half of humanity
- Are Education Programs in Prisons Worth It?
- North Carolina: First in Forestry
- Enabling Free and Responsible Speech
- Shaky U-M study promotes e-vehicle transition
- New bills would give special exemptions for pension income
- Bauervic Essay Competition Workshop
- Less is more
- New Democratic majorities can help Michigan add jobs with full expensing
- Don’t panic over ‘forever’ chemicals
- Michigan shouldn’t worry about becoming a ‘climate haven’
- Potential Automatic Reduction to Income Tax is a Good Start
- ‘It’s not like the auto industry ever wanted something from the state government and didn’t get it’
- Michigan Right-to-Work Repeal Bills Are Unconstitutional
- Mackinac Center Promotes Skorup and Guenthner
- Less is more
- How should we punish people for their crimes?
- Michigan Voters Favor Right-to-work Law by a 2-1 Margin
- Rhode Island Teacher Fired for Opting Out of Union Membership
- Rhode Island Teacher Unconstitutionally Forced to Choose Between Job and Union
- Michigan Democrats are wrong on right-to-work
- Repealing Michigan's right-to-work law would silence workers