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