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1. The market speaks — against electric vehicles
2. Michigan government can afford to spend more on roads
3. Michigan Supreme Court Fails to Rein In Excessive Emergency Powers
4. Gratitude is an antidote to political outrage
5. Unions licensed to deceive the vulnerable as dues skim returns to Michigan
6. Right-to-work States Do Not Have Lower Wages
7. Worker wages better in right-to-work states
8. Right-to-Work States Do Not Have Lower Wages
9. ‘Not just a healthcare issue’
10. Renaissance Center demolition latest state subsidy threat
11. How Do You Get Ahead In Michigan? New Study Has Suggestions
12. Social Mobility in Michigan
13. IMPACT November/December 2024
14. America will continue to shine on
15. Lawmakers must reform FOIA during lame duck
16. What a legal showdown taught me about professional respect
17. An XPRIZE mindset could spur statewide innovation
18. It’s Time to Enact FOIA Reform in Michigan
19. Michigan Supreme Court must guard Headlee Amendment’s taxpayer protections
20. Michigan drug bills would shift profits to hospitals without helping the poor
21. Michigan Supreme Court Punts on abuse of emergency powers
22. ‘Stories change the culture’
23. Film subsidies encourage youth smoking and cancer
24. Recycling bill would place pointless burden on families, businesses, economy
25. It’s Time to Build
26. Incoming FCC chairman seeks to end ‘censorship cartel’
27. Michigan’s Corporate Welfare Failure: Only 1 in 11 Jobs Promised Were Created
28. Front Page Failures
29. Michigan government can afford to spend more on roads
30. Prison Education Programs Reduce Recidivism, Boost Employment
31. How States Can Improve Education Programs in Prisons
32. State Ranking of Prison Education Programs
33. Mackinac deep dive: Government incentives put energy at risk
34. Forcing internet companies to use union labor is stalling broadband
35. Don’t believe false claims about charter school financial transparency
36. 'Hold the powerful accountable’
37. Have some standards, will you?
38. The market speaks – against electric vehicles
39. School Board Members Should Put Students First
40. Michigan Senate bills target charter schools
41. Innovators and entrepreneurs: XPRIZE as catalyst
42. A generation of subsidies hasn’t created auto jobs in Michigan
43. Open the books in Michigan schools
44. What to watch in the lame-duck session
45. Michigan needs a better playbook for funding universities
46. Why is Michigan trying to revive its failed state-run venture capital fund?
47. One year after the UAW strike, Michigan is worse off
48. Lawmakers Shouldn’t Discriminate Against Charter Schools With Unfair Regulations
49. Protect Michigan's Presidential Votes
50. Corporate subsidies are out of control
51. GM looks to revitalize itself in Europe with direct sales, which Michigan makes illegal
52. ‘Protect the reliability of the grid’
53. Michigan Democrats’ top priority has been special business favors
54. MEDC Releases Documents After Lawsuit
55. Lawmakers shouldn’t take vows of silence
56. Innovation under siege: Federal regulations threaten Michigan colleges
57. Innovators and entrepreneurs: XPRIZE as catalyst
58. Compulsory charity isn't charity
59. Protect Michigan from federal overreach
60. Biden followed FDR's lead in tampering with SCOTUS
61. Mackinac Center Unveils 101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan
62. 101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan
63. Whitmer’s 2,000 days of FOIA inaction
64. Court ruling conceals local government records from the public
65. Eliminate laws that stifle innovation
66. Movie Screening: Freedom Hair
67. How to create more housing
68. Michigan development program not a pretty site
69. Michigan lawmakers trying to establish unnecessary interior design license
70. ‘Low carbon, high costs’ report sounds alert on dangerous standard
71. Michigan needs new ideas for high absenteeism and falling student scores
72. ‘When the government selects who wins, everyone loses’
73. Going in Reverse
74. Six ways to analyze campaign ideas
75. How to create more housing
76. How Free Are We? Where Michigan Ranks on the Freedom Scale
77. IMPACT September/October 2024
78. Michigan development program not a pretty site
79. Cut taxes to make Michigan more attractive
80. Licensing reforms would ease Michigan’s pain
81. Michigan needs new ideas for high absenteeism and falling student scores
82. ‘We have to fight for the commanding heights of American culture’
83. Michigan lawmakers trying to establish unnecessary interior design license
84. New members join Mackinac Center Board of Scholars
85. The New York Times should apply its pay gap skepticism to its own coverage
86. Caregiver unionization exploits needy families
87. U.S. Supreme Court Denies Blaine Amendment Challenge
88. Fear keeps nuclear power from crossing the threshold
89. The real Fukushima aftermath was not what you think
90. Michigan Mom Continuing Lawsuit Against Chippewa Valley School Board
91. Argentina scraps rent control while Michigan lawmakers want to add it
92. Michigan’s Blueprint for a Brighter Future
93. Policy favors for unions threaten Michigan’s competitiveness
94. ‘Low carbon, high costs’ report sounds alert on dangerous standard
95. State of Missouri v. Joseph R. Biden
96. Rhode Island School District Settles Suit With Teacher Denied Tenure After Leaving Union
97. The return of the spoils system
98. How to get rich in 1,000 simple steps: Basic advice on work, budgets and investing
99. More trouble ahead for government-funded internet
100. Support policy, not politics
101. Government Transparency Upended After Michigan Supreme Court Denial
102. ‘There’s a bigger strategy at play’
103. Price signals, not price gouging
104. SEIU dues skim shows lingering power of organized labor
105. Michigan is falling behind
106. Michigan House Should Reject SEIU’s Grotesque Scheme
107. Mackinac Center President Joseph Lehman Joins I4AW Board of Directors
108. Caregiver bills will hurt caregivers
109. Unnecessary Unionization Should Be Rejected
110. What the movie 'Reagan' tells us about leadership
111. Price gouging bills miss the mark
112. Unpacking ‘Degrowth’
113. Price signals, not price gouging
114. Low Carbon, High Costs
115. Michigan schools are failing students
116. Candidates are running on nothing
117. Proposed Clean Fuel Standard Would Raise Gas Prices With Scant Environmental Benefit
118. More trouble ahead for government-funded internet
119. Challenge to Student Loan Deferment Appealed to the Sixth Circuit
120. Flint residents break bread and share entrepreneurial dreams
121. ‘I want an economic system that pulls billions out of poverty’
122. Freedom of Information Lawsuit Targets Michigan Economic Development Corporation
123. Planning for Life Workshop
124. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: How To Use Data to Inform Good Public Policy
125. UNDIVIDE US
126. Put down the pitchforks and dig into Frankenfoods
127. UNDIVIDE US
128. Where high-earning households are moving: It ain’t Michigan
129. Support policy, not politics
130. Public sector unions should only speak for their members
131. Michigan Taxpayers Lose Permanent Tax Cut
132. ‘Everybody’s got to read my book and believe it’
133. Mackinaw Area Tourist Bureau vs. Village of Mackinaw City
134. Supreme Court Halts Biden Student Loan Plan
135. IMPACT July/August 2024
136. Students Falling Behind Were Denied Additional Help
137. Better batteries won’t save the energy grid
138. Occupational licensing guarantees higher prices
139. Unions are bad for cities
140. The misplaced overspending of Michigan’s 2025 budget
141. Workers Should Not Be Forced Into Exclusive Union Representation
142. Michigan secretary of state flirts with censorship in new ‘honest dialogue’ plan
143. Occupational licensing guarantees higher prices
144. ‘We’re putting a face and a name on the issue’
145. Net Zero Plans Threaten Reliable Energy in the Great Lakes Region
146. Unions are bad for cities
147. How to Get Michigan Growing Again
148. How to Get Michigan Growing Again
149. Shorting the Great Lakes Grid
150. Earmarks: shrouded in secrecy, bad for Michigan
151. The misplaced overspending of Michigan’s 2025 budget
152. Why strategic infrastructure beats mass beta testing
153. SpaceX ruling has deep implications for worker freedom
154. ‘Certificate of Need laws are a public policy failure’
155. State Supreme Court limits asset forfeiture
156. The GOP’s risky flirtation with Big Labor
157. Rent control’s flaws remain even when new construction is exempted
158. America was built on an idea
159. Unanimous Michigan Supreme Court Rules Government Equity Theft Harm is Retroactive
160. Hollywood subsidies fail to meet promises, benefit few
161. A lot of hot air?
162. School budget flunks
163. Leadership is more than just being in charge
164. Court Ruling In SpaceX Case Could Fundamentally Alter Private-Sector Unions
165. Politicians count subsidy chickens before they hatch
166. Rent control: A terrible and counterproductive idea
167. Education Entrepreneurs
168. Michigan needs better policies to keep kids in school
169. ‘I was so distraught; I felt like I had to do something’
170. Why all the hysteria over Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling?
171. Mackinac Center's Student Loan Deferment Lawsuit Dismissed on Standing
172. How to Get Michigan Growing Again
173. How to Get Michigan Growing Again
174. Michigan stylists are over-licensed — and it’s about to get worse
175. Mackinac Center Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Halt Latest Student Loan Payoff
176. The two big mistakes in Michigan’s 2025 budget
177. Planning for Life Workshop
178. Hollywood subsidies fail to meet promises, benefit few
179. A lot of hot air?
180. CON laws bad for Michigan’s health
181. Why government-funded internet isn’t happening, again
182. ‘You have to have a critical mass of people who care about it’
183. Panic! at the fishery
184. School budget flunks
185. Private property rights are more important than ‘local control’
186. Climate panic is an old wine in a new bottle
187. Landmark Ruling Ends Judicial Deference to Bureaucrats
188. N.Y. report shows why Michigan’s top-down Covid response went wrong
189. Happy Janusversary!
190. Minimum wage mandates are bad for the economy
191. Is it a government or a business?
192. Planning for Life Workshop
193. Film credits, SOAR earmarks wrong for Michigan
194. Ask questions when job promises disappear
195. Michigan's electricity forecast looks grim
196. IMPACT May/June 2024
197. There is a disconnect between economic development programs and economic growth
198. ‘We’re not experts,’ says state agency given authority over placement of wind and solar energy installations
199. ‘Equal treatment’ of schools masks a double standard
200. House Budget jeopardizes quality preschool
201. President’s Council Luncheon featuring Joseph G. Lehman and David Bahnsen
202. ‘If the Soviets hate this Milton Friedman guy then he must be good’
203. Attorney General Nessel Smears Fossil Fuel Companies
204. Michigan House Should Protect Teacher Pensions
205. Scientific American takes aim at homeschoolers
206. Business subsidy bill would set new records
207. State economic rankings suggest Michigan’s path to improvement
208. Michigan can learn about sustainable budgeting from other states
209. Smuggled smokes will maul Maryland
210. The growth of environmental anti-humanism
211. State’s Lawsuit Against Amazon a Bad Deal for Customers
212. Michigan’s Lawsuit Against Amazon Fails Econ 101
213. What should have been on the agenda at Mackinac Island
214. Whitmer’s efforts to ‘lower costs’ make us all poorer
215. Stop the Hollywood handouts
216. ‘In the past three years, we’ve made more advancements on school choice than in the preceding three decades’
217. ‘Equal’ treatment of schools masks a double standard
218. There is a disconnect between economic development programs and economic growth
219. ‘We’re not experts,’ says state agency given authority over placements of wind and solar energy installations
220. The roots of environmental anti-humanism
221. Fossil fuel closures will hollow out the grid
222. Rerun on film subsidies remains ineffective, expensive
223. How can we fix Michigan colleges?
224. Lansing bets on a tax hike
225. Cyber schools should get equal funding
226. Unions must represent all covered workers, even nonmembers, Michigan Supreme Court rules
227. Suggestions for Michigan’s licensing agency
228. ‘If we got to Mach 3, 4, 5…then trillions of dollars could get unlocked’
229. Examine families when deciding how to grow Michigan's population
230. Big Labor Lies: Exposing Union Tactics to Undermine Free and Fair Elections
231. Congressional Testimony Exposes Union Tactics to Undermine Elections
232. Michigan’s data privacy proposal is filled with problems
233. Lansing bets on a tax hike
234. Transform schools with NFL-inspired teacher selection
235. Education Revolution: How an Army of Parents and Lawmakers are Reforming Schools
236. Challenge to Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Halted at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
237. Michigan Disconnect: One-third of eligible students already covered
238. Cyber schools should get equal funding
239. Taxpayers soaked to the last drop
240. Has the Ivory Tower Lost its Luster? Rethinking Higher Education in Michigan
241. ‘There’s so much we can learn from polls’
242. How much pork will be in the upcoming state budget?
243. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
244. Unions must represent all covered workers, even nonmembers, Michigan Supreme Court rules
245. Physical therapy licensure compact is good. Universal recognition would be better
246. Return of union dues skim threatens home health workers
247. Proof that wind and solar are disasters, not the energy America really needs
248. From crisis to choice: A modern history of education reform in America
249. AI could make FOIA obsolete
250. College sports’ march toward unionized madness
251. Lessons from COVID-19 school relief spending
252. Taking an inventory of my tax bill
253. Michigan climate policies only help utility giants
254. Are poor urban districts really underfunded?
255. Health scare stories rarely add up
256. Bernie Sanders’ 32-hour work week hypocrisy
257. ‘There’s a wide-open Overton Window, and a lot of people have ideas’
258. Supreme Court should take up Michigan school choice case
259. House Republicans propose bills to limit corporate welfare
260. Michigan’s Film Incentive Program Doesn’t Need a Sequel
261. State takes aim at charter schools
262. Why doesn’t Michigan measure up?
263. Naked Favoritism
264. IMPACT March/April 2024
265. Michigan needs a sustainable budget to unleash prosperity
266. NorthGate: A case study in political development
267. Mackinac Center Hosts Showing of “One Life,” a Film About the Inspirational Sir Nicholas Winton
268. Are poor urban districts really underfunded?
269. It’s Time To Work: State Licensing Reforms Michigan Should Consider
270. New Report Shows How Michigan Schools Spent COVID Funds
271. Covid Cash
272. The realpolitik of state business subsidies
273. ‘If you can make them laugh, they’ll remember things’
274. State Board of Education Resolution Would Strangle School Choice in Michigan
275. "It's the Economy, Stupid": Insights and Perspectives
276. State grant requires taxpayers to subsidize $236,000 per housing unit
277. It’s time for Michigan to demand educational opportunity
278. Don't separate teacher effectiveness from student achievement
279. Mackinac Center Appeals Anti-School Choice Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
280. Court’s Decision Endangers Freedom of Information Act
281. Health scare stories rarely add up
282. ‘The only way you’re going to get involved is by being involved’
283. Restarting Nuclear Plant a Good First Step to Right Government’s Wrongs
284. Whatever became of Michigan’s population council?
285. Naked favoritism is becoming Michigan’s economic strategy
286. Mackinac Center Appeals Flawed Income Tax Ruling
287. Happy fourth anniversary, COVID lockdown!
288. Proposed tax hike and flavor prohibition recipe for lawlessness
289. Free community college will cost taxpayers — and hurt students
290. The last thing Michigan needs is rent control for mobile home parks
291. The man who wrestled global hunger to the ground
292. Michigan Could Soon See an Increased Cigarette Smuggling Rate
293. Michigan climate policies only help utility giants
294. Grading the Grid
295. Grading the Grid: Natural Gas and Nuclear Top List of Reliable and Affordable Energy Sources
296. Six charts to change your mind about Michigan
297. Lawmakers Should Adopt a Sustainable Budget
298. Michigan’s budget isn’t sustainable…Yet
299. Michigan’s lawless corporate welfare
300. ‘Basically it was a free market wish list’
301. Proposed tax hike and flavor prohibition recipe for lawlessness
302. Pension debt payments save taxpayers on the state’s largest creditors
303. New Report Shows School Districts Should Thoroughly Review Existing Union Contracts
304. Free community college will cost taxpayers — and hurt students
305. Fiscal policy favoritism hurts everyone
306. Michigan Taxpayers Denied Permanent Tax Cut
307. The Tables Have Turned
308. Michigan housing reform: It’s all about supply
309. How you tax is almost as important as how much you tax
310. The last thing Michigan needs is rent control for mobile home parks
311. ‘It’s a policy shift but also a cultural shift’
312. Don’t redirect pension funds
313. Confound it all with the same old business subsidies
314. Whitmer’s PreK for All Plan is wasteful, unnecessary, unfair
315. House Bill 5025 does not fix any problems, creates new ones
316. Michigan’s renewable energy report card
317. If you seek a pleasant peninsula, U-Haul will take you to Florida
318. In Detroit schools, nothing succeeds like failure
319. IMPACT January/February 2024
320. Big Labor’s death knell in Michigan
321. Failed subsidy idea gets new hearing anyway
322. Prevailing Wage is Poor Economic Policy
323. Don’t redirect pension funds
324. Despite Right-to-Work Repeal in Michigan, Union Workers Still Have Rights
325. Economic Development Deals Should Have Greater Accountability
326. Whitmer’s PreK for All Plan is wasteful, unnecessary, unfair
327. Super-seniors won’t fix Michigan’s population problem
328. Governor pushes for ‘free’ community college, but current results are abysmal
329. ‘This is the unholy intersection of Hollywood and politics’
330. Confound it all with the same old business subsidies
331. Michigan Legislature Should Support Greater Government Transparency
332. FOIA Reforms A Good Start, But Can Go Further
333. Michigan needs statewide zoning reform to bring down housing costs
334. Testimony on House Bill 4907 and 4908
335. Michigan earns dishonorable mention for broadband funding plan
336. Mackinac Center Announces 2024 Policy Priorities
337. Mackinac Center updates business subsidy scorecard
338. Policy Recommendations 2024
339. Governments cite debunked ALICE study to justify welfare spending
340. Michigan Supreme Court Orders Expedited Decision on Income Tax Challenge
341. The Wheels of Power Can Be Set to Reverse
342. Bring back the public benefit
343. Michigan population council says out with the old and…in with the old
344. How will a Michigan homeschool registry make students safer?
345. Michigan students need options
346. How will a Michigan homeschool registry make students safer?
347. Michigan’s grand plan for blackouts and massive utility bills
348. ‘The dealers are protecting themselves, not protecting consumers’
349. Governor Seeks Money for Nothing in State of the State Address
350. “Good Jobs” Program Produced No Jobs for Michigan
351. Michigan’s government has not earned your money
352. Michigan Supreme Court Should Hear Challenge to $714 Million a Year Tax Hike
353. Michigan deserves the 3.9% income tax rate
354. National School Choice Week
355. The mirage that’s driving mass transit expansion
356. Hawaii offers a case study on the inadequacies of wind and solar
357. Growing Michigan Together’s report highlights licensing and immigration reform
358. Biden subsidizes Carmageddon
359. Bring back the public benefit
360. ‘There’s no good outcome here’
361. Alaska’s fight for worker rights
362. Michigan makes list of ‘Anti-Free Speech’ states
363. Promise Zones fall short of their promise
364. Membership plunges again for Michigan and national teachers unions
365. Michigan population council says out with the old and…in with the old