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‘Can’t count on it’: DTE boss says the quiet part out loud on wind and solar

Hayes: Relying on wind and solar would leave Michigan in the lurch

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‘Too good to be true’ New York $1B solar boondoggle a warning for Michigan

Promised a manufacturing hub, Buffalo got a Tim Horton’s coffee shop

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Loser-takes-all: National Popular Vote would create dubious first in Michigan elections

Under House Bill 4156, a candidate could lose Michigan and win all of its electoral votes.

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World Economic Forum seeks 75% reduction in car ownership

Michigan’s partner in the U.S. Centre for Advanced Manufacturing seeks ‘vehicle access regulations’

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‘Everything is broken’: Michigan lawmaker bemoans lack of transparency in budget process

If there is anything worse than bipartisanship, it is one-party rule.

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Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan: Red tape and orange barrels

Michigan can’t fix every problem, but it can control the controllable, starting here

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National Popular Vote is national divorce, initiated by California

Blue-state plot to select the president is California-based and rooted in sour grapes

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What Michigan can do with $500 million rather than giving it to Hollywood

There is no reason to resurrect film subsidies

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How to strike a healthy balance between parents and teachers

Collaboration, common goals are the path to positive relationships between a child’s parents and teachers

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Traverse City energy customers may be liable for ballooning broadband costs

A federal loan program meant to lower rural utility rates would have the opposite effect on northern Michigan city

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Michigan, Florida go in opposite directions on paycheck protection for teachers

A tale of two states: Florida is growing and becomes freer as Michigan shrinks and caters to special interests.

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CapCon’s agenda: facts and solutions

The multimedia era begins at Michigan Capitol Confidential

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Michigan bill would keep local officials ‘remote’ from public

Local officials work in the public square, not in a square on Zoom

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MSU professor peddles ‘catastrophic’ myth against school vouchers

How a criticism of voucher programs actually provides a strong defense

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

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

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Parents are responsible for their child’s education

Journalist uses tiny percentage of population to smear parents

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

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

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Michiganders pay high rates for unreliable electric service

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

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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

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

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

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Michigan legislature ducks action on energy reliability

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

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

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

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A picture is worth three words: Character is destiny

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

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Michigan suffers from low income, high costs

State government policies have made things worse

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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

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