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Hefty School Employee Pensions Burden State Taxpayers

At 57, retiree would get $94K a year increasing to $204K a year over time

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Fiscal Cliff Could Hit Michigan Hard

Residents could pay equivalent of double state income tax

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Police Called to Monitor Dam Removal Meeting

Angry residents flood meeting to complain about Traverse City area dam removals

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Connecticut Now Struggling With Caregiver Unionization Efforts

SEIU loss in Michigan not stopping the union

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Red Dawn Finally Rising In Michigan

Movie remake hits big screen thanks to $16.7 million from Michigan taxpayers

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MEDC Questioned About Its Transparency

Questions about how tax dollars spent could warrant new legislation

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Failing School Ranks Every Teacher and Principal 'Highly Effective'

State has Hazel Park schools as failing, but its teachers all get highest marks

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Unions, Government Entities Team Up to Keep Information From Citizens

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Failing Schools Able to Mark Themselves Up to a Passing Grade

One-third of statewide school report card deals with paperwork

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Michigan Home to Half of the Largest Bankrupt Green Energy Companies

Pushed by former Gov. Granholm, the state has four of the top eight stimulus-backed ‘green’ failures

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Families Forced Into SEIU Scheme Relieved and Thankful After Proposal 4 Defeat

Robert Haynes: 'It took ordinary people like us to bring attention to what was really happening.'

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District Used $1.7M in Tax Dollars Paying Employees Not To Take Insurance

Forest Hills paid 100 percent of health care benefit, then paid $5,000 to teachers who didn't enroll in the plan

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An End Finally in Sight for the SEIU Dues Skim

Voters overwhelmingly reject the forced unionization scheme

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All Five Constitutional Amendments Soundly Defeated

Emergency manager law repealed

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Voters Reject Special Interest Power Plays

Proposals 2-6 soundly defeated

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Tea Party Groups Predicting a Romney Victory

Most disregard polls and say Romney will win in a 'landslide'

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Media Resoundingly Rejects Prop 2, Prop 4

Only two weekly newspapers support either of the union-backed plans to alter the state constitution

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Supreme Court Election, One More Bite At The Apple For The Left

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The Price Tag on the Ballot Proposals

Constitutional changes would cost billions to Michigan taxpayers, citizens

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Commentary: Proposal 4 Excludes Caregivers From Getting State Employee Benefits

SEIU wants forced unionization locked into state constitution but only to take money from caregivers

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Despite Rampant Tenure Abuses, Proposal 2 Would Wipe Out Slight Reform

Teachers caught with drugs, assaulting students, engaging in sex crimes and distributing alcohol to minors were all protected

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Not Much Mystery Behind $9 Million Raised for Prop 4

Proposal 4 supporters expect voters to believe that the union is spending $9,593 per name for a registry

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Union Electrician and Wife: 'The SEIU Never Did Anything For Us'

Milliron family says they don't think the SEIU should be able to lock its forced unionization into the state constitution

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Ballot Issues Explained

Mackinac Center experts discuss the six ballot proposals in 10-minute video segments and answer viewer submitted questions

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No Teacher Evaluations On Halloween ... And Other Odd Union Contract Provisions

Lie detector tests and classroom temperature also among the specific details protected in government union contracts

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