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Michigan Capitol Confidential Removes Story With Wrong Data On Car Repairs

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Michigan’s Local Wind Farm Opposition May Drive New Developments To Iowa

Utility’s figures also suggest tens of thousands of acres of solar collectors coming here

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Big Michigan Utility Expects No ‘Significant Growth’ Of Electric Cars Here

Consumers Energy sees potential but projects no jump in power demand from EVs

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Michigan Public Sector Salaries Have Increased Every Year Since 2001

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Charter School Critic Shocked At Groups Giving Teachers Information On Unions

Campaign tells teachers that union fees are now optional

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Retired Police Woman Has Made $200,000 + Annually

Leading newspaper says public servants, like her, are ‘losing their foothold in the middle class’

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Teacher Once Claimed He Fantasized About Being A Barista

Three years later, he's making $9,000 more a year

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26 Grand Rapids City Employees Received $20k-Plus in Overtime

There were city 378 city workers getting $80,000 or more in 2017

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US Supreme Court Cites Mackinac Center in Landmark Ruling On Unions

Majority holding gives right-to-work status to every public employee in the nation

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First Time Since 2000, No Local Governments Under State Receivership

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Nine Years In A Row: State Spending Goes Up Again On Oct. 1

From $45.7 billion the year Snyder was elected to $56.8 billion next year

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Michigan Subsidizes Amazon, Even Without Second HQ Project

Millions in taxpayer dollars for distribution centers gives retailer a marketplace edge

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Recipe For Food Stamps Teacher: Seven In Household, Low Seniority

It takes a rare combination of circumstances

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Bills Reduce Work Restrictions, Give Those With Criminal Records Another Chance

Michigan House licensing bills supported by bipartisan legislators and groups across the political spectrum

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New 5G Internet Faster, Cheaper – And Vulnerable To Local Shakedowns

Bills that passed the Michigan Senate will preempt local bottlenecks, if the state House goes along

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Students Here Far From ‘All Above Average’ - But Teachers Rated That Way

A troubling gap between how students really do and how schools rate teacher performance

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Bill Schuette Talks State Government

‘The growth is in states that have lower taxes and fewer regulations’

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Earmarks For Key Legislators Recall Late ’90s Spending Blowouts

Not quite the ‘Christmas tree’ budgets of yore, but trending that way

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Flint Water Whistleblower, Mackinac Center Sue Wayne State Over Records Denials

Virginia Tech professor among first to raise questions, challenging Wayne State prof’s actions on crisis

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State Taxpayers Seeing Payoff From Smaller Prison Population

One prison closing now, and analyst reports another may follow soon

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$8.4 Million Per Year for U-M Diversity Employees

Of nearly 100 full-time 'diversicrats,' 26 get more than $100,000

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Brian Calley Talks State Government

‘So I’ve personally handled massive tax cuts, multiple massive tax cuts here in our state’

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Which Party Gives More In Taxpayer Funded Corporate Handouts?

The answer may surprise you

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State Teachers Union on Privatization: Watch What They Do, Not Say

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Washtenaw County Township Builds Internet Service

Most local projects aren’t self-sustaining; township cites its unique topography as a justification

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