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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A piece of the wall, along with artifacts from the abject failure that was communism, is featured in a Prague museum as a reminder of one of the darkest periods in human existence....
In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Shikha Dalmia cited the Mackinac Center's recent finding that Michigan's public-sector employees annually receive $5.7 billion more in benefits than their private-sector counterparts...
A bipartisan package of bills in the Michigan Senate is poised to protect consumers from the tragedy of a bad interior design. The legislation may or may not succeed in that, but it certainly will protect interior designers from the tragedy of more competition generating lower prices for consumers...
The ongoing budget debate, once again, has been fueled by attacks on Michigan's school funding system. Led by the Michigan Education Association, the public school establishment is blaming Proposal A and Michigan's so-called antiquated tax structure...
In the latest Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency Economic Indicators report, economist David Zin echoed an observation I made here last month on personal income: The recent increase in a key economic indicator — personal income growth — suggests the very opposite that Michigan has turned a corner. Si...
Russ Harding, director of the Property Rights Network at the Mackinac Center, was a guest Thursday on WMKT in Traverse City...
Deciding which issues to tackle and how to vote accordingly is as cumbersome for voters as it is for politicians. On Nov. 2, 2010, exactly one year from today, Michigan voters will elect three statewide officials, including a new governor, and dozens of representatives and senators...
A column in Saturday's Kalamazoo Gazette references a recent Current Comment about school consolidation by Michael Van Beek, director of education policy, that details why school district consolidation isn't the answer to problems with Michigan's public education system...
A reporter with The Michigan Messenger contacted two college professors in response to an Op-Ed that Paul Kersey, labor policy director, wrote for The Detroit News...
Governor Granholm and certain quarters of the state media have been very excited by a recent report from the Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth extolling the success of the No Worker Left Behind Program, but the report leaves a lot of questions unanswered...
Lawrence W. Reed, president emeritus of the Mackinac Center, will be inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame Wednesday night, according to the Midland Daily News...
A public forum about Canadian health care hosted Monday by the Mackinac Center was covered by Reporting Michigan...
Transparency, spending, health care and the state's budget process were the topics of several media stories involving the Mackinac Center in the last few days...
Through the miracle of modern economics, Michigan stands poised to surge into unprecedented prosperity. The engine that will drive us to economic recovery is food stamps. The explanation is that...
The Detroit News on Saturday published an article in which reporter Ron French compiled various indicators to suggest that Michigan state government is smaller now than at the start of this decade (“Michigan’s shrinking government”). There ...
