Where did the Money from Higher Transportation Taxes Go?
A bigger budget means more money for programs beyond road repair
Delayed Payment On Granholm Early Pension Gambit Raises Costs To Taxpayers
Michigan pension office helped pass costs to future taxpayers
Union Enlists a Mayor to Endorse Fabulist Claims on Teacher Pay
Poverty-level pay? Only if a first-year teacher has seven dependents
Saginaw’s Lowest Performing Schools Get the Most Money
More funding won’t fix failing schools
Michigan House Bill Would Impose Sanctions On 'Sanctuary Cities'
Ypsilanti, like Detroit and Ann Arbor, will forbid employees from asking a resident's immigration status
Michigan Wins When Immigrants Face a Fair and Predictable System
Due process is an important part of an immigration system
Michigan Taxpayers Don’t Need to Spend $4 Billion Annually on Infrastructure
Recent report has been misinterpreted
Open Records Law: U-M Cashes The Check But Fails To Deliver The Info
In the private sector you can get in trouble for this kind of behavior
Detroit’s Soccer Stadium Should Stand on its Own
Stadiums are a bad investment for taxpayers
'Unregulated' Charter Schools? 13 Things You Did Not Know
All the accountability of regular public schools – plus parents can pull their kids out any time
How ‘Good Character’ Provisions Create Bad Outcomes
Barriers to employment can prevent some prisoners from reintegrating successfully
Real Economy Creates 81 Jobs For Every 1 Promised by Business Subsidy Program
And don't look too hard at the record of those promises
Michigan Environmental Office Repeatedly Stonewalls Record Requests
Agency connected to Flint water crisis has haphazard FOIA system
Wasting No Time on Criminal Justice Reform
Senate introduces some important proposals on day one of 2017 session
Michigan Forfeiture Laws Improving, But State Transparency Still Falls Behind
Under civil asset forfeiture, cops can keep a person's stuff even without a conviction or arrest
What This Russian College Student Thinks About Bernie Sanders
'There is a perception that socialism is fair - It is not fair'
State’s School Rankings Only Tell Part of Story
By failing to account for poverty, Michigan unfairly puts some schools at bottom
Federal Park Staffers Defy Presidential Order, Tweet Climate Change Warnings
More CO2 in the atmosphere 'than at any time in the last 650,000 years,' said park's Twitter feed
School Board Says DeVos 'Unfit' For Advocating Policies It Practices
East Lansing schools big outsourcers; but board attacks Education Secretary pick for pro-privatization stance
After Decades of Little Change, Why Are So Many States Going Right-to-Work?
Five years, five new worker freedom states
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Legislators Who Promote Transparency Should Start by Disclosing Corporate Welfare Deals
MEDC secrecy patronizes lawmakers and public
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