The Mackinac Center Blog
August 20, 2025| Mackinac Center
Comments submitted to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Order includes more than 90 policy changes| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Buckeye State makes power production easier and more transparent| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Comments submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
And if corporate welfare works, why is Idaho eating Michigan’s lunch?| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
The illusion of a balanced energy mix makes good rhetoric but poor policy| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Governor’s global warming pipe dream will leave Michiganders colder, hotter, poorer| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Coca-Cola crisis exposes conflicts in Trump agenda| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Richard Vedder discusses his book on creative destruction in higher education| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Opportunities for Michigan as Trump moves to fulfill Reagan-era abolition promise| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Top 10 cringe (and criminal) moments from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Experts urge pause on plant closures, push for grid reliability standards| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
You don’t need a press pass to keep an eye on state agencies| Mackinac Center
Michigan should reform the federal 340B program| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Courts, unions, state governments must respect Janus decision| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
State is violating the law to benefit the SEIU| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Lawmakers should limit their next spending hike to 3.6%| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Union Township needs broad policy and management reform, not subsidies for graduates| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Every policy idea has tradeoffs| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Twelve reasons corporate welfare doesn’t lead to prosperity| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Fancy innovations have failed to improve student performance| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley urge Americans to embrace civil disagreement, not avoid it| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Talk and tax-hike requests don’t fill potholes| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
House bill would return spending decisions to local school districts| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Lawsuit demands records detailing how tax dollars are used in Detroit redevelopment deal| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Mackinac Center sues to rein in costly and unconstitutional earmark process.| Mackinac Center
Returning to fundamental principles is the best way to celebrate America| Mackinac Center
‘Fair Share Surcharge’ would crush economic activity without helping schools| Mackinac Center
Goals matter more than processes| Mackinac Center
Lawmakers have approved billions for pet projects in recent years| Mackinac Center
City-owned utility seeks to borrow more money| Mackinac Center
Project sold to taxpayers as being profitable by 2021| Mackinac Center
Federal government is not the right source of funds for much of what DOGE is cutting| Mackinac Center
(Mackinac Center President Lawrence W. Reed gave the | Mackinac Center
Economic development programs are political development programs| Mackinac Center
Government officials make the perfect the enemy of the good| Mackinac Center
State development agency’s job-creation record is embarrassing| Mackinac Center
Taxpayers lose with poorly designed site preparation program| Mackinac Center
Discouraging supply is not the way to make housing more affordable| Mackinac Center
Why then risk hundreds of millions more for industry subsidies with a failed track record?| Mackinac Center
Joseph Overton observed that in a given public policy area, such as education, only a relatively narrow range of potential policies will be considered politically acceptable. This "window" of politically acceptable options is primarily defined not by what politicians prefer, but rather by what they believe they can support and still win re-election.| Mackinac Center
