With Income Tax Rejected By Voters, East Lansing Looks at Spending Cuts
A common story: Residents will pay for years of pension underfunding by elected officials
Another Local Politician Violates Election Law, Sanctions Again Unlikely
‘Elected officials ... violate the law far too often,’ says critic of taxpayer-funded tax-hike electioneering
City Taxpayers Will Pay Millions For Past Employees’ Benefits
Politicians break faith, promise retiree health insurance without paying for it
No More ‘Chippewas,’ ‘Eskymos’ or ‘Fighting Scots’? Bill Bans Ethnic Mascots
State government officials would create a ‘banned in Michigan’ list
Legislature Looking to Streamline Internet Services
Bills would limit fees and ban government-owned networks
Don’t Push the School Funding Panic Button
Districts can adapt to federal enrollment projections
Michigan Local Governments Have Self-Inflicted Financial Problems
It’s up to them to stop adding retiree debt
Incentive For New Teachers in Hard-To-Fill Specialties? Zero
Experience, independent research, suggest Michigan’s system doesn’t make sense
It’s Mostly Dems Pushing Auto Insurance ‘Alternative’ Bills That Benefit Trial Attorneys
Alternative package would make it easier to sue, raising costs of nation’s most expensive auto insurance
CEOs of Michigan’s Big Energy Monopolies Get Millions, Customers Get Rate Hikes
DTE’s head collected $12.5 million while company lobbied for friendly rewrite of state regulations
Close Coal Plants, Open Gas Plants, DTE Gets 10 Percent Profit Either Way
It’s good to be a regulated electric monopoly in Michigan
State’s Largest Teachers Union Offloads Some Pension Obligations Onto Taxpayers
MEA’s own unfunded pension liabilities now stand at $130.3 million
Fraser Public Schools Explains Its Role In A Union Pension Spiking Scheme
Superintendent says the law allows it and legislators had the chance to end it but didn't
Sweet Deal: Another Teachers Union President's Pension On Taxpayers' Dime
Fraser Schools agrees to pension spiking arrangement with union official
Michigan Auto Insurance Reform Would Mandate Nation’s Richest Injury Coverage
Even if bill becomes law, the state would still be highest in the country for personal injury protection
Millions Borrowed And Spent For Enviro Cleanups – But Did They Happen?
Sloppy state records mean taxpayer dollars may have been thrown away
State Spends $660 Million In Public Debt, But For What?
Nearly 30 years on, we’re still not sure what that money bought
State of Michigan To Restrict Union ‘Ghost Workers’
Currently, 20 state employees do only union work on state time; still others do it part-time
Union Labels Nonunion Employees 'Welfare Scabs' With Vulgar Photo on Company Property
Employee calls the tactic ‘bullying’ and contrary to company policy
Libertarian Scholar Charles Murray Is Shouted Down At U-M Event By Students
Protesters call Murray 'sexist, racist, KKK!'
Liquor Store Owners Think It’s Great For State To Ban Nearby Competition
Free-market think tank expert testifies to committee that it’s not great at all
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