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8 Oct 2009, 10:35 pm
Paul Kersey, for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, analyzes (leads to PDF) the sort of state enactment that really ought to be more controversial. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 3:06 am
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan has posted a short interview (11 minutes) with me that was done a couple of weeks ago on the GM Bankruptcy.... [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 7:15 am by Tom Smith
As Vinnie Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, put it: "Right-to-work does not affect collective bargaining in any way except to take away unions' ability to fire workers for not paying them. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 8:23 am by Media Law Prof
The Chronicle of Higher Education and other media are tracking attempts by Wisconsin Republicans and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to obtain the emails of faculty at universities in Wisconsin and Michigan who oppose the elimination of collective bargaining... [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 12:16 pm by Thomas Burke
  On August 4, 2023, the Cato Institute and Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed suit in the Eastern District of Michigan, alleging that the U.S.... [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 3:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds
. “Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 9:45 pm by Walter Olson
“The bipartisan legislation is supported by groups as diverse as the ACLU of Michigan and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 1:04 pm by Christie D. Arkovich, P.A.
  And a lawsuit was filed yesterday by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute in an effort to block it. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
AFSCME case] Mackinac Center has launched national exit-encouraging campaign [My Pay My Say] Class action suits in several states against government unions seek refund of fees paid [Bill McMorris, Free Beacon] Proposal to have public employers simply pay unions directly could eliminate workers’ choice in the matter [Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block, Vox (favoring idea); Eugene Volokh] “California’s Government Unions Take Steps to Obliterate Janus… [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 7:06 am by Patrick Wright
Patrick Wright is the vice president for legal affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in Janus v. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 6:11 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
The Grand Rapids Press gave some specifics on what has asserted to have been plagiarized in the report by a Michigan State researcher:A 13-page portion of Shakrani's report discussing consolidation issues was criticized Wednesday by The Mackinac Center, a free-market think tank in Midland.It said three paragraphs matched text in the federal Educational Resources Information Center digest, while four other paragraphs matched text in a recent report on Stateline.org, a… [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:00 pm
He’s written extensively about transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center. [read post]
6 Nov 2017, 10:10 am by Dan Carvajal
Source: Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Tax Foundation. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 5:34 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
The group, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, declined to explain why it was making the Freedom of Information Act request for material from professors at the University of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State University.... [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 6:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
Source: Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Tax Foundation State 2017 Tax 2017 Consumption Smuggled (positive is inflow, negative is outflow) 2006 Consumption Smuggled (positive is inflow, negative is outflow) 2017 Rank Rank Change since 2016 Excise Tax Rate change 2006-2017 AL $ 0 [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 7:48 am by Matthew Forys
According to the Mackinac Center, they may lose three million union members and agency-fee payers and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in dues or fees. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 9:10 am by Ana Popovich
” The case settles a qui tam, or whistleblower, lawsuit, which was filed by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 2:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Each year, scholars at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Michigan think tank, use a statistical analysis of available data to estimate smuggling rates for each state.[1] Their most recent report uses 2019 data and finds that smuggling rates generally rise in states after they adopt cigarette tax increases. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 2:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Each year, scholars at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Michigan think tank, use a statistical analysis of available data to estimate smuggling rates for each state.[1] Their most recent report uses 2018 data and finds that smuggling rates generally rise in states after they adopt cigarette tax increases. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 7:05 am by Matt Johnston
In Michigan, notes the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a respected think tank, “the average arbitration process takes 15 months to reach a decision. [read post]