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Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Has Lost 25 Percent of Its Members

MEA’s decline much greater than its ‘worst fears’ after right-to-work allowed teachers to leave

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Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Funds Leftist Activist Group

Michigan Education Association gave Progress Michigan $71,000 this year

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State Ends Fiscal Year With Surplus After 12 House Republicans Defeat Tax Cut

Tax cut proponent: It shows Michigan government can afford to take less

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Union Head Questions Corporate Pay, Ignores Own Officers’ Huge Salaries

Teachers union president gets $492k in 2017, after years of pay freeze for teachers

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No Arrest — But Cops Took And Kept His $2,035 Anyway

Your assets are presumed guilty in Michigan; legislation would change that

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Bills Would Ban Keeping Taxpayer Handouts To Corporations Secret

A handful of companies are getting billions, but citizens are forbidden to know who or how much

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Police Set Up Crime, Entrap College Student’s Cellphone and $100

Though none were criminally charged, 523 in Michigan still lost property forfeited to police last year

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Half a Million Prevailing Wage Rates For 162,000 Construction Workers

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Unions That Say Prevailing Wage Law Protects Retirees Mismanage Worker Pensions

Reports show Michigan construction union pensions in ‘critical’ condition

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Arcades Owe Detroit Thousands of Quarters Each Year

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Half Of Able-Bodied Michigan Medicaid Expansion Enrollees Don’t Work

More than 600,000 enrolled, while total state unemployment down to just 218,000

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Iron Mountain Schools Draws Flak for Novel Homeschool Co-op

'I don’t think it’s a fair way of doing it,' says neighboring superintendent

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Price of Electricity Up 85 Percent Since 2001

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Teachers Union Head Gets Annual $92,000 Pension Bonus, Courtesy of Taxpayers

Scheme let top union officials get school pensions based on six-figure union salaries

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East Lansing Loses $350,000 Running 'Aquatic Center'

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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

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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

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City Taxpayers Will Pay Millions For Past Employees’ Benefits

Politicians break faith, promise retiree health insurance without paying for it

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No More ‘Chippewas,’ ‘Eskymos’ or ‘Fighting Scots’? Bill Bans Ethnic Mascots

State government officials would create a ‘banned in Michigan’ list

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Michigan Lottery Sees Huge Increase, Meaning Windfall for Schools

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Legislature Looking to Streamline Internet Services

Bills would limit fees and ban government-owned networks

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Don’t Push the School Funding Panic Button

Districts can adapt to federal enrollment projections

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Michigan Local Governments Have Self-Inflicted Financial Problems

It’s up to them to stop adding retiree debt

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Incentive For New Teachers in Hard-To-Fill Specialties? Zero

Experience, independent research, suggest Michigan’s system doesn’t make sense

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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

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