Commentary

Business Subsidies Are Bad All Over

Hype determines policies more than effectiveness

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Taxpayer Backlash Coming Over Billions In Amazon Subsidies

But the rebellion against corporate handouts hasn’t reached Michigan

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If At First ... Legislature Looking To Rein In Auto Insurance

Special interests halted past reform efforts

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Commentary

Saving Money for Michigan Workers

Workers should be able to keep their money

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Medical Welfare Programs Look To Price Another Year Of Life

Is a beneficiary’s ‘quality-adjusted life year’ worth the cost of a drug?

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Commentary

State of the System

Criminal justice reforms should be made a priority

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Court: OK For Wayne County To Seize Man’s Car For 3 Years

Legislators considering changes to state asset forfeiture law

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State Employee Morale Drops As State Spending Rises

Gov. Whitmer is concerned

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Media Smokestack Images And Air Pollution Spin

Those billowing white clouds coming out aren’t what you may think

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Commentary

Pension Tax Affected 8 Percent Of All Taxpayers

It’s a lot of people and a lot of revenue

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Commentary

Union Membership Continues to Drop Nationwide

The Janus decision is having an effect on membership

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News Story

Numbers Are In: Fossil Fuels Kept Furnaces Running During Polar Vortex

Wind production fell 79 percent over three coldest days

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Analysis

Michigan School Funding ‘Dead Last’? Watch That Methodology

Third in a series of how claims about public school revenue claims are often misleading

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No Surprise: Public Spending Lower After Deep ‘One-State Recession’

However, overall state spending has increased nine consecutive years

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Analysis

One Source Of School Finance Confusion: ‘Equity In School Funding’

Second in a series of how claims about public school revenue claims are often misleading

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Commentary

Michigan’s Democratic Governor Pushes Special Corporate Tax Break

There are more important priorities

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Commentary

Dead Last In Payments to Local Governments And Everything Else

The dangers of relying on outdated data

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Analysis

Warning: Michigan School Finance Is Complicated

It’s also confusing, and spending interests often don’t tell the whole story

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News Story

Drivers Will Pay More At Pump If Oil, Gas Pipeline Shut Down

Estimates vary on the effects of closing Mackinac Straits pipeline

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Will Your Furnace Turn On When Utilities Abandon Gas And Coal?

Polar vortex exposes risk with all-renewables approach to energy

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Commentary

The Free-Market Case for a Clean Slate

Clean-slate laws help people reintegrate into the workforce

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Having Won Once, Reformers Want Even-Year Grand Rapids Elections

One official says their lower turnout makes odd-year elections look like suppression

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How Much to Tax is Different From How to Spend

Trash tax a lesson in priorities and revenue

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Six More Ideas for Savings in the State Budget

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Even After Right-to-Work, Unions Still Big Political Spenders in Michigan

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