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Politician Staffs: Your Money, Their Secret
WNEM TV-5 got some surprising answers last year when it asked Michigan lawmakers to fess up to taxpayers about who works for them and how much they are paid. … more
Going Green in Cancun
The recent global environmentalist conference in Cancun, Mexico discussed how to lower global CO2 emissions to fight global warming. But the "solutions" often lead to more problems. … more
Mocked Scientist Gets Last Laugh
Meteorologist Piers Corbyn predicted Europe's winter of discontent. … more
Breaking the Doctors
Rationing, shortages, service mandates and regulations impose impossible burdens on Canadian doctors, and create a slow and backward health care delivery system. … more
Power Plays
Special interests, union protectionism, over-regulation, contradictory government policies: When politicians and bureaucrats make health care decisions rather than doctors and patients, the results aren't pretty. … more
Canadian Wait List Insurance
Canadians have to put up with long waits to see specialists or get diagnostics like MRIs or CT scans. Now, businesses offering insurance products to help them avoid waiting for a critical test are trying to offer options, but they are finding resistance from special interests within Canada. … more
The Granholm-AFSCME Partnership
The governor admits her role in the forced unionization of day care providers. Today's article at www.MichCapCon.com/14235 covers the day care unionization case … more
Tax Compromise
Bloomberg -- Daniel Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, talks about the tax-cut compromise President Barack Obama forged with Republican leaders and signed into law Dec. 17 … more
State Budgets: Day of Reckoning
CBS - 60 Minutes reports on the precarious financial conditions many states are facing and what they're doing about it. … more
Jurrians v. Kent ISD
The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is suing 10 Kent County school districts and the Kent County Education Association to remove illegal contract language that states that the school districts will not privatize non-instructional functions. The suit was brought on behalf of five Kent County taxpayers.
Read more about this case at http://www.mackinac.org/14185. … more
Civil asset forfeiture is one of the greatest threats to private property rights in our nation today. Law enforcement can take your property without even charging you with a crime.
