Commentary

Michigan’s plan for energy transition: Leap before it looks

Energy transition fails to consider trade-offs, unreliability of renewable sources Read more

Parents are responsible for their child’s education

Journalist uses tiny percentage of population to smear parents Read more

Michigan’s income tax cut was 16 years in the making

Both parties fail to bring back Michigan’s pre-2008 tax rates Read more

Michiganders pay high rates for unreliable electric service

Michigan residents pay outsized rates for some of the least reliable electric service in the country. Read more

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 Read more

Winners and losers, carrots and sticks: The parable of the EV

Every time government picks the electric vehicle as a winner, the public loses Read more

Michigan legislature ducks action on energy reliability

Michigan lawmakers were shocked, shocked by mass power outages, but they have done nothing about the problem Read more

Why the Mackinac Center sued over Biden’s student loan pause

Student loan pause not only costs taxpayers $5B per year, it is unconstitutional Read more

A picture is worth three words: Character is destiny

Photo of 2001 swearing-in ceremony captures troubled state of Michigan in 2023 Read more

Michigan suffers from low income, high costs

State government policies have made things worse Read more

Lansing’s friends-and-family plan will hasten exodus from Michigan

A Michigan run for the few will continue to lose people. Both young and old people flee the state Read more

Only 5% of Detroit 8th graders read at proficient level

A review of NAEP scores for Michigan’s largest district confirms the need for education reform Read more

National Popular Vote plan would disenfranchise Michigan voters

Michigan voters often decide presidential elections; that would end under proposed law Read more

Government workers can’t be forced into unions even after right-to-work repeal

Know your Janus rights: For Michigan teachers, police, firefighters & others, worker freedom is guaranteed Read more

The CapCon Guide: How to be an effective citizen-advocate in Michigan

Things are changing fast in Michigan. Here’s how to make your mark on the state Read more

Hohman: Michigan media asks the wrong questions, fosters bad policy

On roads, energy, schools and corporate welfare, bad questions lead to bad outcomes. These are four alternatives. Read more

Could Michigan schools teach kids to read before trying to fix society?

Michigan’s education complex fails in its mandate, then embraces diversity and equity initiatives Read more

The Whitmer agenda is a sop to the rich

Governor proposes EV subsidies that would benefit the well-off Read more

On CNN, Whitmer misrepresents COVID record, suggests Florida data inaccurate

Whitmer echoes a debunked talking point and admits to seed-section folly in 9-minute interview Read more

DTE, Consumers’ peak-hour pricing plans have it all backward

Stanford study undermines utility peak-hour rate planning Read more

The people we serve

You don’t agree with the Mackinac Center on everything. But you agree with us on something. Let’s talk about those things. Read more

Michigan can have workers’ rights or mandatory union dues, but not both

Right-to-work repeal in Michigan would diminish workers’ freedom and empower labor unions Read more

DTE can’t tree trim its way to reliability

After ice storms and thundersnow cause mass outages, DTE must admit: Burying power lines underground is the answer Read more

Whitmer copies the failed initiatives of her predecessors

From green energy to college credits, Whitmer plays the classics from the Snyder and Granholm eras Read more

Whitmer’s tutoring plan is too little, too late to fix learning loss

Michigan students might have coped better with learning loss if governor had not vetoed a similar GOP plan in 2021 Read more