City Property Tax Breaks Mean Sweetheart Deals For A Select Few
A system that lets one business get special treatment in a city with 3,000 businesses
City Manager: ‘It might be nice if there was a utopia where everyone played with the same rule book’
Novi administrator explains how and why city gives out tax abatements
Jobs Department’s Fake News: $10 Tax return for Every $1 in Subsidies
Program lacks transparency, too
One In Four Michigan School District Teachers Chronically Absent
That’s twice the rate of charter school teachers
Former Congressman Dave Camp on Where Tax Reform is Heading in D.C.
An interview with the previous House Ways and Means Committee chairman
Most Michigan Parents Satisfied with School Choice
Superintendent Whiston backtracks from 'backwards' claim
Two Standards Of Justice For Sexual Assault Claims
Guidelines let a university deny accused access to a lawyer
State Increases Fee For Public Data From $96 to $3,800
Information in question covers public school employees
MLive Erroneously Reports New Flint Police Officers Get Just $11.25/Hour
News site confuses police academy trainee stipends with starting salaries of sworn officers
Meet The New Teachers Union Myths, Same As The Old Ones
New MEA leadership team promote old one’s false narratives in a ‘listening tour’
Ann Arbor Considering City Income Tax, Blames State
But city is collecting and spending more, not less
Detroit Charter Schools Outperform District School Peers On State Tests
In most but not all grades and subjects, the difference was substantial
Best Schools In Michigan Would Vanish If For-Profit Charters Were Banned
Two top-tier Democratic candidates for governor say that’s what they would do
The Quiet Good News: US Economy Is Doing Really Well
Middle-class incomes are setting new highs, poverty is down, yet no one’s talking about it
More Inaccuracies in New York Times Attack on Michigan Charter Schools
Fourth in a series. NY Times article gets wrong the number of charters that engage for-profit managers
New York Times Cherry-Picks Data In Takedown Of Michigan Charter Schools
Third in a series. NYT article excludes observations from nation’s most authoritative research
New York Times Article, Critical of Charter Schools, Misses Key Point on School Funding
Despite media claims, districts in poor communities get more funding, not less
False Claims, Inaccuracies Rife in New York Times Article On Michigan Charter Schools
First in a series exposing NYT Magazine’s sloppy and/ or agenda-driven coverage
DTE Declines Participation In Township Wind Farm Debate
State’s largest utility wanted just one consultant to give both sides
Giving More Taxpayer Dollars to Universities Won’t Make Michigan More Educated
No link between state spending and educational attainment
Post Labor Day Weekend Good Time for Tourism Talk
Lots to discuss with unofficial end of summer season
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‘Raise the Age’ Proposals Pending in Lansing
New legislation would stop automatically treating 17-year-olds as adults
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