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More students are served taxpayer-funded school lunches
Dec 10, 2024 · Six out of ten students are eating taxpayer-funded meals at school, according to a press release from the Michigan Department of Education. The number of school meals provided has increased since last year, but it may not equate to healthier students and could mean more wasted food. In the 2023-24 ...
School curricula to stay hidden from parents, high court rules
Oct 7, 2024 · Michigan parents can’t request some school curricula under public record acts after the Michigan Supreme Court chose not to hear an appeal from a lower court.
Michigan Legislature gives $1 million to mystery golf nonprofit
Nov 18, 2024 · Michigan taxpayers will pay $1 million to an undisclosed nonprofit to help young adults improve their golf game. The Legislature approved $1.25 million in the 2025 state budget for a snowmobile track and golf-centered training in what it called “life skills.”
Michigan House approves bills to resurrect dues skim for home …
Sep 27, 2024 · Michigan home health care providers could see smaller paychecks after the state House approved bills aimed at resurrecting the dues skim practice voters rejected by wide margins twelve years ago.
Job subsidy deals have 91% failure rate
Dec 4, 2024 · Only one of every 11 jobs promised by Michigan politicians and public officials in business subsidy announcements actually gets created, according to a new study by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Net zero goals likely to turn off Michigan’s electricity grid
Oct 31, 2024 · If Michigan continues toward net zero emissions, it could lose reliable electricity, with a federal regulator and regional electric grid officials warning of substantial energy losses that could come within eight years.
Federal bailout gives $635 million to carpenters union pension plan
Nov 22, 2024 · The federal government is spending $635 million in taxpayer funds to bail out a multiemployer pension fund for a Detroit carpenters union. Pension experts warn that the bailout comes with little or no accountability and no indication that it won’t happen again.
Grand Rapids scores $252M from taxpayers for new soccer stadium
Dec 6, 2024 · Taxpayers are on the hook for a new soccer stadium in Grand Rapids. Michigan and Kent County are contributing at least $252 million to the project.
Bill in Legislature targets squatting – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Apr 22, 2024 · Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.