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Dem Bills Make Companies Prove Innocence On Equal Pay

Yet important new Harvard study undermines basis of workplace sex discrimination claims

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Growth Fuels Budget Priorities in House and Senate Budgets

Real Cuts to Corporate Welfare on the Table

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Benton Harbor Schools Errs In Reporting Teacher Salaries

Mistake distorts public discussions of education policy in Michigan

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All Quiet On The ‘Photo-Cop’ Legislative Front — For Now

Revenue-seeking municipalities and device vendors behind push to bring red-light cameras

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No State Education Board Majority To Take $47 Million Federal For Charters

The schools get the money anyway

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Mismanagement, Incompetence Made Benton Harbor Schools A Financial Basket Case

Auditor’s notes blast leadership at a well-funded school district

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Well-Funded Benton Harbor Schools Received 28% More Money Than State Average

District’s $13,098 per pupil in the top tier of school funding

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Private School Decline May Be Overstated

Families need more, not fewer, education options

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Michigan’s Auto Industry Matters Less to the State Workforce

One out of 25 jobs in the state is in auto manufacturing

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Forfeiture Reform, Legal Pot Could Cost Wayne County’s Sting $500k+ Annually

‘They don’t even care about the criminal charges,’ says defense attorney

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Uber, Lyft May Be Reducing Michigan Drunk Driver Crashes

But activist site seems to criticize ridesharing services as competitors to taxpayer-funded transit

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Anti-Tobacco Lobby Disappointed: No Tax Hike In New Vaping Law

Governor has ‘significant reservations’ over signing bill banning sales of vaping products to minors

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Auto Insurance Reform's Biggest Winners: The Working Poor

Excessive insurance rates hurt struggling families most of all

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Michigan Never Raised, Spent As Much On Transportation As This Year

And without a new tax hike

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Michigan Road Funding at Record Levels Without Proposed Tax Hike

Lawmakers should be aware of the amount currently being spent on roads

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Detroit Schools The Nation’s Worst, Super Want Its Teacher Pay The Nation’s Best

Worst urban district for 10 years per Nation’s Report Card, but Detroit gives its own teacher high marks

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Green Jobs: The Antithesis of Efficiency

Less energy with more jobs ≠ efficient

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2018 School Pension Underfunding Expense Enough To Fix The Roads

Decades of officials shortchanging pensions cost taxpayers $2.1 billion last year

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Anti-Choice State Board Rejects Funds from Top-Rated Grant Application

No defense for vote to refuse federal charter school funds

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Facts Should Matter in the Realm of Education

The NEA should keep its facts straight when it comes to school choice

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Cost Of Teacher Raise Wanted By Detroit Superintendent: $81.2M Annually

But district already at risk of overspending its revenue

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Mitch Albom is Wrong About Michigan Auto Insurance Changes

The current system is only great if you count the benefits and ignore the costs

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News Site Reports Teacher ‘Can’t Support Family’ — But Omits His $81K Salary

Not hard to mischaracterize teacher pay; site shows how

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Corporate Subsidies Appear To Work Sometimes — Or Firm Was Coming Anyway

Firm got $130,000, not the $430,000 first offered, still built new plant

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The Cost of Road Building is Spiking, and That’s a Problem

MDOT chief says system can handle it

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