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  1. A Taxing Debate in Michigan: Growth, Fairness and Trade-Offs
  2. Rx Kids, Poverty Solutions and the Social Safety Net
  3. Planning for Life Workshop
  4. When the State Becomes Guardian: Building a Better Foster System for Michigan Children
  5. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
  6. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
  7. Is The World Better Off With America?
  8. Commonsense Election Reforms in Michigan (And Beyond)
  9. Freeing Health Care Markets: State Solutions for Coverage, Costs, and Innovation
  10. ‘You never talk to the people who lost the lottery, right?’
  11. Unions Leverage Retirement Funds for Political Agendas
  12. Unions and ESG: From Worker Representation to Shareholder Activism
  13. Legislation Could Threaten Popular Small Consumer Loan Programs
  14. Whitmer promised transparency and delivered gag orders
  15. Oversight is a key role for local officials
  16. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
  17. It’s Groundhog Day all over again on free trade
  18. IMPACT March/April 2026
  19. Michigan’s inflated teacher evals are failing students
  20. Price hikes tied to wind and solar
  22. Union Township receives recognition, but its performance underwhelms
  23. Reform Michigan unemployment insurance
  24. Water, Watts and Wealth: The Costs and Benefits of Data Centers in Michigan
  25. Freedom notes U.S.A.: Nebraska takes over federal environmental reviews
  26. ‘Let me pretend this is true, OK?’
  27. ‘The difference between having a good idea and having others embrace it’
  28. On housing, local vs. state control is the wrong question
  29. Trump, Whitmer and the problem of emergency powers
  30. What election reforms are actually possible?
  31. What Michigan Can Learn About Reading From Mississippi
  32. Michigan’s pandemic lockdowns need a full review
  33. The False Promise of Film Incentives
  34. The billion-dollar idea Detroit should consider
  35. How Civility Strengthens Policy
  36. The state of Whitmer’s state
  37. Time to make full use of the new earmarks process
  38. High gas prices don’t justify emergency powers
  39. Free Market Road Show
  40. Food trucks, often banned or heavily regulated, may get a chance to thrive
  41. ‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’
  42. Prescription Drug Toolkit Urges States to Take a Bigger Role
  43. Yes, other states are building much more housing than Michigan
  44. Almost everyone agrees that municipal zoning rules are too strict
  45. Where did Michigan’s surplus go?
  46. Mackinac Center Applauds Bipartisan Action on Physician Licenses
  47. The Free Market Remedy for Drug Pricing Ills
  48. Michigan’s tax competitiveness is at risk
  49. Judge throws out Mackinac ferry monopoly claim
  50. The Economic Spirit of 1776
  51. Success of Rx Kids should prompt reevaluation of welfare programs
  52. New Report: Michigan Should Follow Mississippi’s Lead on Reading
  53. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
  54. Michigan’s Broadband moment: Time to focus on connections
  55. Supreme Court Turns Away Mother’s Free Speech Appeal
  56. Let’s fix licensing systems that lock ex-offenders out of work
  57. ‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
  58. Walter Isaacson to Headline Mackinac Center Event
  59. Keep Michigan’s budget sustainable
  60. Capping credit card rates unnecessary, harmful
  61. Making Drug Policy Work for Patients, Not Institutions
  62. Mississippi Learning
  63. Michigan Must Have Affordable Reliable Electricity
  64. A Lesson from St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
  65. The ideas that built America still matter
  66. How Trump can make homeownership affordable
  67. Coalitions Director
  68. Limit zoning to make Michigan grow again
  69. Michigan lawmakers move to protect reasonable childhood independence
  70. Let’s Build Michigan: Why Housing Costs Have Spiked and How to Fix It
  71. Right to compute moves forward in other states
  72. Michigan taxpayers build it, but nobody comes
  73. ‘All of your data has been stolen’
  74. IMPACT January/February 2026
  75. Cigarette smuggling increase on the docket in Washington State
  76. ‘SAFE’ bills are not safe
  77. Seven habits of highly civil people
  78. Michigan subsidy picks are a short seller’s bonanza
  79. Beware of most-favored-nation drug pricing regs
  80. Tax hikes and smuggling: Will Michigan tempt scofflaws?
  81. Laws have unintended consequences
  82. Time to rein in old MEGA gravy train
  83. The state of housing in Michigan
  84. Mackinac Center partners for historic summit
  85. Why Michigan needs more housing, despite a flat population
  86. ‘We don't wear capes’
  87. Make Michigan competitive again
  88. Michigan Can’t Subsidize Its Way to Growth — It Must Build Its Way There
  89. Setting the record straight on schools of choice
  90. Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Housing Reform Bills
  91. Lawmakers should reject sales tax holidays
  92. Voters can lower their own property taxes under Michigan rules
  93. I (heart) freedom, and you should too
  94. Michigan only enacted 74 laws in 2025. So what?
  95. Senior discount won’t solve Michigan’s property tax problem
  96. Interest rates should be left to the private market
  97. House bill a shot in the arm for Schools of Choice law
  98. ‘A country where opportunity is still possible’
  99. Licensing rules make Michigan’s health care problems worse
  100. All former governors join Mackinac Center civility panel
  101. Freedom Notes U.S.A.: Americans want the lights on
  102. A Defining Moment for Civility
  103. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
  104. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
  105. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
  106. Indiana chokes with new cigarette taxes
  107. The meaning of America, 250 years later
  108. What’s the real poverty line?
  109. Grand Rapids should publish its 311 data
  110. The state of housing in Michigan
  111. Mackinac Center Announces 2026 Policy Priorities
  112. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
  113. Public Policy Recommendations 2026
  114. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
  115. Give credit where due on the roads deal
  116. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
  117. Let interest rates find their market rate
  118. ‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’
  119. Want to boost Michigan? Stop punishing R&D
  120. Give credit where due on the roads deal
  121. We need real performance metrics for Michigan public universities
  122. M.L.K.’s campaign of ideas
  123. Michigan hospitals aren’t using charity program for charity
  124. Before spending, ask, ‘Is this thing working?’
  125. Caregivers pay SEIU dues for no real union benefits
  126. It’s time for focus on the debate over subsidies to corporations
  127. IMPACT November/December 2025
  128. What is the role of a think tank?
  129. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
  130. Legislature Approved Zero New Business Subsidies in 2025
  131. ‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
  132. Mackinac Center Comment to FDA Regarding Modified Risk Tobacco Products
  133. Government makes a bad Santa Claus
  134. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
  135. 3 ways to rebuild Americans' trust in government
  136. America’s flirtation with socialism
  137. Whitmer should form a commission to review pandemic response

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