Even the biggest opponents of a bill to make zoning less burdensome agree that local zoning rules prevent the housing people want from getting built. In response to a bill to preempt local governments rules that prohibit most…
Most people agree that local zoning rules are preventing construction of the kind of housing people want – even municipal governments themselves. Two bill packages in the Michigan legislature, including one proposed by…
Michigan lawmakers had $9 billion in expected surplus funds at their disposal in January 2023. Many people today wonder what happened to that money. The short answer is that is lawmakers spent it. The better question is…
LANSING, Mich. — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy applauded lawmakers for advancing a bipartisan measure to preserve licenses for thousands of Michigan physicians, an important step toward protecting access to care and…
Michigan ranks 16th on the Tax Foundation’s State Tax Competitiveness Index. Ranking in the top third is fairly good, but Michigan’s trajectory is not. The state ranked 11th only five years ago and has been sliding ever…
The ongoing litigation and legislation campaign against Mackinac Island ferry operators became a little clearer when a federal judge dismissed the city of Mackinac Island’s antitrust claims against the ferry companies. The…
Americans will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding this July, and rightly so. But March marks another significant event from 1776 that demands our attention. A few months before the American founders…
Rx Kids distributes cash to pregnant women and young mothers in Michigan. A pilot program that launched in Flint in 2024 quickly expanded to dozens of cities. Lawmakers gave $270 million to the program this year. Nobel…
MIDLAND, Mich. — Nearly two-thirds of Michigan students cannot read proficiently, and the state now ranks in the bottom 10 nationally for literacy. A new Mackinac Center report shows how Mississippi reversed a similar crisis…
Michigan is finally inching toward putting its $1.6 billion share of federal Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) funds to work. Nearly five years after the federal bill was passed, the state of Michigan received…
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