Tag: Mackinac Center

LIVE Streaming Of New Media Event Today! 10-21-10

As mentioned here before, The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is hosting a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, in the Oakland County Commissioners Auditorium to look at how new media outlets are changing the political landscape.…

New Media’s Impact – Panel October 21 2010

Mackinac Center Hosting Panel on New Media’s Impact on the Political Landscape MIDLAND — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy and The Michigan View are hosting a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, in the Oakland County…

Mackinac Center Files Motion for Reconsideration

The Mackinac Center Files Motion for Reconsideration in Home – Based Day Care Union Case MIDLAND — Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Director Patrick J. Wright filed a motion for reconsideration with the Michigan Court of Appeals yesterday afternoon in Loar…

Will The Michigan Supreme Court ACT?

I had mentioned before that the  Michigan Supreme Court remanded the day care unionization case Loar v. DHS to the Michigan Court of Appeals for an explanation of its rejection of the lawsuit, which claims that the unionization of Michigan’s…

MI Supreme Court Says Appeals Court Has Some Explaining To Do

Court of Appeals will have to elaborate on six-word denial issued last December MIDLAND — In a unanimous order yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court remanded the day care unionization case Loar v. DHS to the Michigan Court of Appeals for…

Hanger 42 – Celluoid Burns Like Napalm

Perhaps no one has yet noticed the similarity between the name and the amount (percentage) of credit provided to film makers for their “investments” into the Michigan Economy?  Could it be possible, the sheer audacity of what now appears to…

Granholm Wants No Jobs Left Behind When She Is Gone.

30,000 jobs could be lost with tax hikes, but losses eventually moderate to 13,500 if tax cuts phased in Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s tax hike proposal would cost as many as 30,000 Michigan jobs in the first year, according to research…

Michigan Capitol Confidential A Great Resource

If you have not yet had the opportunity to get over to Capitol Confidential, now is as good a time as any. With original reporting spawned by research of the Mackinac Center and other leading news sources around the state,…

10AM Lehman on Glenn Beck TODAY June 09 2010 Overton Window

Beck’s new book borrows title, premise from theory developed by Center scholar MIDLAND — Mackinac Center President Joseph G. Lehman is scheduled to appear live on The Glenn Beck Program during the 10 a.m. hour  EDT (or second hour if…

Michigan Education Association Ads Fail Fact-Check

Claims of ‘concessions’ and doing ‘more with less’ are unsupported, misleading or false The Michigan Education Association is airing television and radio advertisements that are misleading the public, according to Michael Van Beek, director of education policy at the Mackinac…