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- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 26, 2006
- The Top 25 Current Comments of 2006
- Private Compassion is the Best Cure for Michigan’s Pain
- Driving Privatization Excitement
- IMPACT Winter 2007
- The Failure of Government Intervention: Buy Union this Christmas
- John Riecker Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
- Mackinac Center Policy Areas
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 19, 2006
- Two Who Made a Difference
- Venezuela’s Destiny
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 12, 2006
- From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
- ‘Economic Icon’ Dale M. Haywood
- Incentives Matter, at Any Age
- Greeley and Bobsy: Wellsprings of Freedom
- A Shared Destiny
- Governor’s Mercury Proposal Lacks Sound Science
- Study Finds Cabela’s Has No County Jobs Impact
- Governor’s Mercury Directive Lacks Sound Scientific Basis
- Assessing Stricter Mercury Controls in Michigan
On April 17, 2006, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm directed the Department of Environmental Quality to draft a rule under the state’s Clean Air Act to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by 90 percent. The governor ordered the reductions to occur in two phases. The first phase is supposed to entail the reduction schedule established by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency last year. The second phase is supposed to exceed the federal requirements by reducing emissions 90 percent by the year 2015. - MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 5, 2006
- Internet Policy Strictly a Federal Prerogative
- Property Owners Hit by Regulatory Takings Deserve Compensation
Regulatory takings occur when the government enacts a regulation or law that diminishes the value of the property but does not take ownership. - Time to Get Serious About School Employee Pension Reform
Private-sector employers are realizing defined-benefit systems like MPSERS do not serve today’s aging and mobile workforce. - The AFL-CIO Picks the U.N. Over the Constitution
How we interpret our labor law, or any other law for that matter, is for us to decide, not a foreign dictator or world body. - Businesses Taxes: A Pernicious Sham
- Youth Violence and the Media
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 28, 2006
- Thankful for Think Tanks
- Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 21, 2006
- Michigan Education Report (2006-04)
- How Milton Friedman Influenced Michigan and the World
- Mackinac Center in the New York Times
- New York Times Story Describes Mackinac Center President as “Johnny Appleseed” of Free-Market State Policy Think Tanks
- In Memory of Milton Friedman
- Around the State 2006-02
- Proposal 5 Defeat Means Voters Want Changes
- Mackinac Center Launches New Science Magazine
- MichiganScience No. 1
MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals. - MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 14, 2006
- Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in
U.S. Supreme Court Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes
- Is it Smarter to Lower Michigan’s Investment Disincentives a Lot or a Little?
- Trash Talkin’ Politicians
- Michigan’s Gross State Product Plummet Shows Need for Changes
- Let Market Decide Tiger Stadium’s Fate
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 7, 2006
- Subsidized Art Isn’t Free Expression
- Proposal 5 and the Fine Print
- Bold Changes Needed in State Permitting
Even if a company or individual can bear the cost, they may not be able to afford the time delays associated with agency demands for new data. - Public Bans on Private Actions
Liberty is more often eaten away one small bite at a time than by one big gulp. - Arrest Pontiac Police Costs
Reforms need to be made that take Pontiac beyond the point of simply keeping its fiscal head above water. - Don’t Expect Much From Politics
- Proposal 5: K-16
- Proposal 4: Eminent Domain
- Mission Creep: Prop 5 Cash Isn’t About Classrooms
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 31, 2006
- Why Government Should Not Be in the Business of Subsidizing Businesses
- A Proposal for Property Protection
- It’s Time for Michigan to Go to Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 24, 2006
- “The Wire”: A Barbed Portrayal of Urban Public Schools
- Understanding Public Opinion Surveys (short version)
- Prop 1: The Forgotten Proposal
- Growing Up Means Resisting the Statist Impulse
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 17, 2006
- Choice and Accountability in Public Schools
- Woe Be Gone, Taxpayers
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, October 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 10, 2006
- The Flint Sit-Downs: A Striking Lesson
- Decades of Dollars and Disappointment
- Proposal 4 Would Place “Reasonable and Significant Restrictions” on Michigan’s Use of Eminent Domain
- How the Late Great Detroit Statler Lives On
“Life is service. The one who progresses is the one who gives his fellow human beings a little more, a little better service.” - Environmental Doomsayers Can Breathe Easy
This welcome news is yet another reminder that prognosticators of eco-catastrophe are off the mark. - Get Rid of the Labels
Ideas worth supporting are those that are tested and found worthwhile because they produce results, not rhetoric. - Proposal 4: A Legal Review and Analysis
Proposal 4 of 2006, which will appear on the November ballot, is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would alter state law regarding eminent domain, the legal theory that permits the government to take private
property for public use if the government pays just compensation. - Ending Cable Monopolies Would Benefit Consumers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 3, 2006
- “I Am Going to Arrest You”
- IMPACT Fall 2006
- School Choice Snapshot: A 2006 Survey of U.S. Policy and Advocacy Organizations
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy worked on
this survey project from November 2005 through
September 2006. We provided assistance to the survey
researcher, Adam B. Schaeffer, who was then a
National Research Initiative Fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., by collaborating
on the survey instrument, offering relevant and
limited information from our database, handling
technical details of inviting and following up with
participants, and editing and publishing this document. - Michigan: A Taxing Place To Do Business
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 26, 2006
- Universities and Economic Development
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 21, 2006
- The “Stop Overspending” Proposal Would Have Provided a “Meaningful Restraint” on State Spending Growth
- The Stop Overspending Michigan Initiative:
A Review and Analysis
The proposed “Stop Overspending” state constitutional amendment, which failed to gain ballot status in the November 2006 election, addressed four major areas ... - MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 19, 2006
- Municipal Control of Franchising Inflates Cable Rates and Impedes Broadband Investment
- Yet Another Regulatory Burden on Electricity
Supply in Michigan
- Assessing the Case for Cable Franchise Reform
Advances in technology now make it possible for both cable firms and telecommunications companies to provide voice, data and video services to most homes and businesses. This constitutes a dramatic change from the days of cable dominance in the video market, and that of the “Baby Bells” in telephone service. What hasn’t changed, however, is the franchise regime that has long limited access to the local market and thus inhibited competition. In this paper, Diane S. Katz examines the effects of this obsolete regulation on consumers and the economy, as well as the myriad benefits of reform. - Hayek Was Right: The Worst Do Get To The Top
- Minimum wage hike claims first casualty
- A Superintendent Provides Choice in Edmonton
- Around the State 2006-01
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, September 13, 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 12, 2006
- Proposal 5 Could Aggravate School Finance Problems and
Reduce Schools’ Incentives To Improve
- An Analysis of Proposal 5: The ‘K-16’ Michigan Ballot Measure
On Nov. 7, 2006, Michigan voters will be asked to consider a proposed new law that would, if passed, require annual state spending to increase at no less than the inflation rate for the following state budget areas: public school districts and charter schools; certain specific budget items in state spending on public school districts and charter schools; and state universities and community colleges. The proposal also contains new requirements for state payments to districts with declining enrollment and places liability for school employee pension cost increases on state government, rather than school districts. The proposed new law will appear as “Proposal 5”on the ballot, and its mandates would take effect in the 2006-2007 school year. - Public Schools Can Provide a Choice to Every Parent
- Teachers’ Strikes, Court Orders and Michigan Law
- “What’s Going On” Redux: A Motown Classic Hijacked
- A Student’s Tribute to a Hero
- Michigan Education Report (2006-03)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 5, 2006
- Reforming America’s Secret Collectivism: The System of Compelled Union Representation
- An Unhealthy Policy Prescription
Romney’s plan will allegedly perform the miracle of covering all of Massachusetts’ 555,000 or so uninsured residents without new taxes or a government takeover of health care. - Survey 2006: School Outsourcing Continues to Grow
With savings of this magnitude, it is not surprising that superintendents are investigating privatization. - Jazzing Up Civil Society
Gretchen Valade improved Detroit’s cultural scene with her gift, just as tens of thousands of Americans have done with their own contributions to countless organizations and enterprises. - Mackinac Center Survey:
Michigan School Privatization Increases - MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 29, 2006
- Want Economic Growth? Make Incentives Available to All
- Taxes Do Matter
- Frank Knox: Prescient and Principled
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 22, 2006
- Scientific Minds are a Terrible Thing to Waste
- A Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
- The Difference One Can Make (Original Version)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 15, 2006
- On a “Lost City” and a Lost Perspective
- "It Can Happen to You"
- Creating Compensation for Regulatory Takings
- A Blighted History of Property Rights Protection
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 8, 2006
- The City of Pontiac: a “Going Concern”?
- The School Choice Movement’s Greatest Failure
- Tributes to Stephen P. Dresch
- Michigan Dithers on Medicaid Estate Recovery
Michigan is the only state that has not implemented estate recovery in some form, despite the fact that the requirement has been on the books for more than 10 years. - Seeking Opportunity
There are many reasons people move, but it is probably easiest to sum all of them up with one word: opportunity. - Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
With gas so plentiful and cheap, some Ohioans came to think it shouldn’t have a cost at all. - Seminar Provides a ‘Kelo’ of Prevention
- Twenty-Nine Seconds That Changed History
- Michigan Court of Appeals Ruling in Bay Mills Lawsuit
“Terrific News for More Than 10,000 Schoolchildren”
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 1, 2006
- On Carbon Dioxide Emissions, the Supreme Court Should Look to the Law
- How to resign your union membership
- NEA, AFT Annual Meetings Resemble Political Conventions
- Summer of Privatization
- SOS: Sensible Spending with Taxpayer Protection
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 25, 2006
- Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? (General Article)
- Gasoline Prices in Perspective
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 19, 2006
- The Price of Abandoning Principle
- Katz Roils Waters at U.S. Senate
- Romney Care: Bad Medicine for Michigan?
- Appeals Court Hears MEA Union Suit Involving Bay Mills Public Charter Schools
- Data Show Michigan is #1 in Resident Departures
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 11, 2006
- Government Putts
- Guidance Directives: Regulation by Bureaucratic Fiat
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 5, 2006
- IMPACT Summer 2006
- What Detroit Can Learn From Bangalore: Remove
Destructive Taxes
- Why Colorado Matters to Michigan
Similarly, the K-16 Proposal in Michigan would cost more and accomplish less than its advocates are sharing with Michigan taxpayers. - The Property Rights Fight Since Kelo
While federal reform efforts have stalled, Michigan residents are well placed to prevent the government from cynically confiscating the property where they live, work and worship. - Character Makes the Difference (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
You can’t choose your height or race or many other physical traits, but you fine tune your character every time you decide right from wrong and what you personally are going to do about it. - The Pursuit of Happiness
- Congress Seizes on Net Neutrality
- Restoring Our Heritage of Property Rights
America’s Founders created a system of government designed to protect property rights. The Founders were influenced by the 17th century philosopher John Locke, who held that everyone who labored had a natural right to property. Property rights, he wrote, reward effort and reduce conflict. Preserving “lives, liberties, and estates” is “the great and chief end” of government. - MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 27, 2006
- The Contemporary Litigation Environment
- A Convenient Deceit?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 20, 2006
- Court Properly Restrains Feds’ Worst Wetlands Excesses,
But Ruling Could Ultimately Leave Federal Agencies With
Broad Wetlands Authority
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Attorney General v. Michigan Public Service Commission
A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving the Michigan Public Service Commission’s renewable-energy surcharge on electrical bills. - Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part Two
- Regulations Run Amok in Michigan: Part One
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 13, 2006
- Wise spending pays for killing biz tax
- Is Every "Choice" a Good One?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 6, 2006
- Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
- Grover Cared
- Federal-Mogul Lesson: Get Rid of the SBT and Fix the Fundamentals
What will it take before government understands that gimmicks don’t work, and that only fixing the fundamentals of our business climate through broad-based reforms will? - Double-but-Nothing: More Education Spending Hasn't Yielded Better Results
Our educational institutions usually do not create incentives for instructional improvement by rewarding effective teachers and sanctioning ineffective ones. - Making State Agencies More Accountable
Agencies and commissions have become so used to having free reign that they broadly construe their mission even where the Legislature only gives a particular agency or commission a limited task. - Detroit Should
Sell Tiger Stadium As Is
- Memorial Day: for the Love of Liberty
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 30, 2006
- Debate Workshops 2006
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, May 2006
- Character Makes All the Difference in the World
- Michigan Education Report (2006-02)
- Michigan Should End Its Tax Favoritism
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 23, 2006
- Sinking fund
legislation could balloon local property tax millages
- Secret Ballot?
- Mackinac Center President Comments on Passing of Herbert D. Doan, Chairman of the Dow Foundation
- Municipal Finance Expert Louis Schimmel Joins Mackinac Center
- City of Sylvan Lake
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 16, 2006
- State College Money Should Follow Students, Not Lobbyists
- The State of the Great Lakes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 9, 2006
- Union Monitor
- The Wrong and Right Approaches to Michigan’s Economic Malaise
- Fair Share Plans Are Anything But
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 2, 2006
- 42 Days of Infamy? (General Article)
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Michigan Education Association v. Superintendent of Public Instruction et al
- How Big Is Bush’s Big Government?
- 42 Days of Infamy? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
We can speculate, however, that a worker might sign a public petition at the request of a friend, but vote another way when protected by privacy. - Great Values, Great Movies
In “The Patriot,”Mel Gibson’s character expresses skepticism about the American Revolution with a question that seems especially poignant today, when our own homegrown government takes more of our earnings in taxes than George III ever imagined possible: “Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?" - Averaging Our Way to Average (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
The proposed mandate would substantially weaken the limited influence parents have in the current system. - A Voter’s Checklist for School Elections
- Mackinac Center Files Friend of the Court Brief in MEA Lawsuit Involving Bay Mills Charter Schools
- Law of the Land
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 25, 2006
- MEGA Grant Requests: What Companies Say
- Earth Day in Michigan: Room To Celebrate
- The Final Phase of the Great Depression
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 18, 2006
- A Window Into Lawmakers’ Souls
- Around the State
- Federal Mogul: More Evidence that “Targeted Incentives” Don't Work
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 11, 2006
- The Best Way To Support the Arts
- Regulation’s Real-World Impact
- The Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative: “Enlightened Self-Interest”
- A Magnificent Exposition
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 4, 2006
- An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy
- Replacing the Single Business Tax With – Nothing
- An Alternative to Green Orthodoxy (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
There is an alternative to embracing Green Orthodoxy. Few states or school districts have actually evaluated the veracity and impartiality of environmental curricula. - How To Replace the SBT With Nothing (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
Here’s how to save $1.855 billion by injecting competition into government operations, providing public employee fringe benefits
comparable to (generous) Private-sector plans and eliminating non-core functions. - Protecting Art From Politicians
Using tax dollars to fund artistic pursuits is not in the best interest of Michigan citizens. - Support the Arts: Just Don’t Use Other People’s Money
- IMPACT Winter/Spring 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 28, 2006
- MSAs Increase Freedom and Choice
- Irony in Ironwood
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 21, 2006
- Michigan’s Lemon Industrial Policy
- Testimony of Diane Katz Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Happy Anniversary, Free Speech!
- The Downside of a Minimum Wage Increase
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 14, 2006
- Entertaining Art: To Tax or Not To Tax — That Is the Question
- Michigan Privatization Report (MPR)
View the Michigan Privatization Report (MPR) and/or subscribe for a paper copy. - Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
- MESSA Reference Page
- Melville W. Fuller: A Model Chief Justice
- Time to Revive Competition in Electricity Supply
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 7, 2006
- Michigan Education Report (2006-01)
- Fixing Michigan's Fiscal Policy- 2006 Edition
Michigan's economy has been losing ground to other states for half a century. Here's how to turn it around. - Michigan’s Russian Roulette
The governor’s five-year plan does not include reducing the cost of producing goods and services in Michigan — something that would attract industries trying to compete globally. Instead, the plan is built around the 21st Century Jobs Fund and other state programs that substitute central planning for the market process. - Change To Win What?
Organized labor has moved well beyond its core mission of championing workers’ issues to financing and promoting a range of policies and groups that have nothing to do with labor. - A Supreme Court To Be Proud Of
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller did not stretch either the law or the Constitution beyond what the words said. When the justices found law to be in conflict with the Constitution, they usually sided with the latter, because liberty under the rule of law was their highest priority. - Proposed Limitations and Expansions of Government
- Putting the Government's Cart Before the People's Horse
- How To Replace the SBT With Nothing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 28, 2006
- Michigan Can't Afford the Status Quo
- Around the State
- The Money Myth
- Today’s Oral Arguments in U.S. Supreme Court Wetlands Cases Suggest Court Is “Concerned About Federal Encroachment”
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 21, 2006
- Michigan Cases in U.S. Supreme Court To Define Scope of Federal Wetlands Regulation
- Corn Flakes and Greatness
- Celebrating Black History Month, 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 14, 2006
- Patterson: Blow Up the Single Business Tax
- The State of the Michigan Economy
- We’ve Only Just Begun?
- Issues and Ideas Luncheon, February 2006
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 7, 2006
- Supporting
Companies That Oppose Eminent Domain Abuse
- Banks and Credit Unions: The Unlevel Playing Field
Banks, especially small and mid-sized community banks, have been consistently losing market share to credit unions because the latter enjoy status as nonprofit financial cooperatives for tax purposes. - Government Broadband: Unnecessary and Unfair
More often than not, municipal broadband ventures have saddled taxpayers with unwelcome debt or otherwise failed to deliver promised results.
- Government Golf: Unfair Competition Hurts Business, Taxpayers
As citizens and taxpayers, we should be asking ourselves: Is golf one of the legitimate functions of government? - Parents Still Have an Option to Check Kids’ Safety
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 31, 2006
- Change To Win What?
- Past as
Prologue: Will We Learn
From History?
- State of the Statist
- Around the State
- Mackinac Center To Tally New Granholm Initiatives Tonight
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 24, 2006
- Time to Park Old Thinking
- The Great Communicator
- Takeover of Detroit Schools Shows Few Intended Results
- Mackinac Center Reiterates Its Policy on Toyota Land Case
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 17, 2006
- The First Phase of the Great Depression
- Keeping the Lights on for Privatization
- Mackinac Center Files Legal Brief in Toyota Land Case
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in DPG York v. Michigan
A Mackinac Center “friend of the court” filing to the Michigan Court of Appeals in a case involving the preferential sale of state land. - Navigating Wetlands to the Supreme Court
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 10, 2006
- Wal-Mart Exposes Contradictions on the Left
- New Data Shows Michigan Citizens Still Fleeing State
- Demography is Destiny
- The Sun Sets on “Opportunity
Scholarships” in the Sunshine State
- An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 3, 2006
- Happy 300th Birthday, Ben!
- Hope in State Graduation Standards Misplaced (Viewpoint on Policy Issues)
Given state bureaucrats’ lack of success implementing the law’s one existing requirement, we should not place much hope in an additional mandate to fix public education or improve the economy. - Public Pension Plans Need To Reflect Reality
When it comes to defined benefits, corporations and municipalities have seen the warning signs and are changing course to avoid getting burned. Public school employee unions and their allies in Lansing would be wise to do the same. - Michigan Landowners To Be Heard at U.S. Supreme Court
Congress has effectively entered into land-use regulation, a domain traditionally left to state and local government. Worse, Congress delegated its authority to the Army Corps of
Engineers, whose employees, whatever their expertise, never face the crucible of an election. Results 1 to 303 for the year 2006 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987
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