Court: New Buffalo mayor violated citizen’s First Amendment rights
Property owner criticized restrictions on short-term rentals; mayor had police haul her out of city council meeting
Faithful electors in Michigan are the antidote to National Popular Vote
Binding the Michigan elector to the Michigan electorate would protect state’s battleground status
The CapCon Guide: What to know about right-to-work in Michigan, post-repeal
Government employees can’t be forced to pay unions, even after Michigan loses right-to-work status
Michiganders want energy choice; Michigan can’t deliver it
Michigan’s Electric Choice program has more people waiting for it than using it
Germany closes its last 3 nuclear plants
In America, nuclear energy is clean energy. But the Germans see it as too risky.
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Monopoly power utility offers Michigan customers small-time money for shutoff privileges
Stabenow hasn’t returned FTX funds, but donated $25K to nonprofit
Stabenow campaign records show one donation in 2023: $25,000 to the Historical Society of Michigan.
Senate bill would turn public workers’ personal info over to unions
Government employees are exempt from forced unionization, but Michigan bill would require the state to give their contact data to organized labor
‘We’d like it to be a mandate’: Michigan bills will seek 100% clean energy by 2035
Speeding Michigan’s energy transition away from reliables to renewables is the top aim of the Clean Energy Future Plan
Winners and losers, carrots and sticks: The parable of the EV
Every time government picks the electric vehicle as a winner, the public loses
Michigan English teachers use 1619 Project in professional development seminar
‘Teaching race in America’ is the theme of the Aug. 9 seminar at Oakland University
Ann Arbor hopes to create solar-powered utility
Ann Arbor says its sustainable utility would run on solar power and battery storage
Michigan legislature ducks action on energy reliability
Michigan lawmakers were shocked, shocked by mass power outages, but they have done nothing about the problem
Biden wants to juice EV demand by killing the gas engine
In Michigan, Whitmer wants 2M EVs on the roads by 2030; In Washington, Biden wants to stop sales of gas engines “as soon as 2035”
Biden signs bill terminating COVID emergency
Congress votes to end emergency a month ahead of scheduled lapse, and White House agrees
Michigan teacher relieved to learn she won’t be pushed back into union
Know your Janus rights: Government employees are exempt from forced unionization
Testimony reveals that National Popular Vote has many critics in Michigan
On an Elections Committee stacked 6-2 for Dems, written testimony comes out even
Why the Mackinac Center sued over Biden’s student loan pause
Student loan pause not only costs taxpayers $5B per year, it is unconstitutional
A picture is worth three words: Character is destiny
Photo of 2001 swearing-in ceremony captures troubled state of Michigan in 2023
Michigan suffers from low income, high costs
State government policies have made things worse
When workers in Michigan had a choice, they left unions
Union numbers and former members tell the story Democrats will not
Michigan lagged in economic performance in the 4th quarter of 2022
Slow growth continued in the fourth quarter of 2022
The UAW lost members in Michigan last year
As right-to-work law is repealed, tens of thousands will be forced back into unions
Dollar’s primacy in danger as China, Brazil ditch Uncle Sam
The yuan’s rise threatens America’s power, but lawmakers are fixated on TikTok.
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