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Tax Cut Deemed Budget Buster, But State Corporate Subsidies Total $623 Million This Year

Billions will keep flowing from Michigan taxpayers to a few corporations until at least 2032

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Commentary

A Look at What Happens After Minimum Wage Hikes in Michigan

Job growth drives low-income wage increases more than legal minimums

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Municipal Lobby Ignores State’s Hard Times In Pleading For More

For all the recent growth Michigan still clawing back from an economic ‘lost decade’

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Deep-Pocketed Michigan Foundations Fund News Outlets

Big-money foundations are bankrolling media to cover their activism

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Commentary

Amazon and Foxconn Ignite Opposition To Business Subsidies

Expensive jobs announcements don’t foster economic growth

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Does Michigan Impose Unconstitutional Fees On Criminal Defendants?

State Supreme Court to rule on fees in criminal cases

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State Dems Want Public Education To Do And Spend More

Universal preschool programs could cost taxpayers $826.5 million

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Kent County Agency Wants 10 Years To Fill Open Records Law Request

Agency says it will cost $241,000

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Madonna Helps Charter School Detroit Tried To Block

She’s in for $100,000 as effort underway to renovate abandoned Detroit school

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Analysis

Michigan Schools And Families Were Hurt By 800,000 Lost Jobs

Public school establishment complaining about cuts that happened 10 years ago

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Detroit Public Schools Fails To Respond To Overdue Open Records Request

It’s the law

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Who's Moving Up In Next Year's Michigan Legislature

Party breakdowns, and who's new in Senate

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Commentary

School Districts Exaggerate the Harms of Losing Students to Choice

Freedom, flexibility needed more than extra funds

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Teachers Union Could Face Millions In Clawback Payments To Workers

Federal class-action lawsuit contends compulsory fee payments violated government workers' free speech

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Legislature Makes Strong Pro-Israel Statement, U-M Goes Other Way

Broad bipartisan majorities approved anti-boycott contracting law; U-M hosted Israel boycott conference

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Farm Lobby Says 1 In 6 State Jobs Due To Ag; Economists Call ‘Manure’

Federal statistics classify 1.1 percent of Michigan jobs as farmers or farm workers

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Teacher Politicizes Colleagues On Underfunding, Own School’s Funding Up

Look for the union narrative

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Commentary

The Good News And Bad News For UAW Members

Their money is being mismanaged but you don’t have to contribute

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For Some Students, Transportation is a Barrier to a Better Education

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Make Michigan’s Bail System Smarter, for All of Us

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Collaborative Management Can Balance Competing Interests for Federal Lands in Michigan

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School Funding Truth A Casualty Of Michigan Political Campaigns

‘Cuts to school budgets’ largely a political myth here

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Commentary

Just A Reminder Of The Growing State Budget

Tax cuts cost much less than recent budget increases

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Campaign Season, And More Taxpayer-Funded Tax-Hike Electioneering

This time it’s Schoolcraft College advocating with public resources

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Obama EPA’s U.P. Road Block May Be Heading To U.S. Supreme Court

It’s really about a mine

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