Michigan lawmakers are taking action to protect innocent people from the state’s backward civil asset forfeiture laws
Michigan lawmakers are forging ahead on a Republican-backed package of bills that would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. The reforms would restore due process protections for innocent property…
Republicans in the Michigan Legislature make private property protections a priority
Michigan, like so many other states, has seen significant abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws by law enforcement. The Detroit Free Press found that law enforcement seized property and…
Does Detroit Deserve Another Bailout?
It’s not really a secret that Detroit isn’t doing well.
Obamacare Will Hurt Michigan
Michigan state is hurting and its failings can be traced to one party rule at the hands of Democrats and the unions (which are likely synonymous). Detroit is now…
Right to Work vs Unions in Michigan
We suspected the unions in Michigan would continue to fight back against recently passed right to work legislation, and we were correct. Unions, displeased that it passed, are showing their…
Medicaid Expansion: Beating a Trojan Horse
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana continue wrangling with the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, a policy that should’ve been dead on arrival in every state with a Republican governor. Who would have…
Right To Work and The Rust Belt
Right to Work is sweeping the rust belt! Workers are free to choose whether or not they would like to join a union in Michigan and Indiana,…
Michigan Education Reform Includes Stopping Common Core
When we think of states to look to in terms of free markets and the responsibility of personal choices, most of us wouldn’t think of Michigan first, or second. Let’s…
Motor City Blues Part I: The Myth of Union Detroit
In recent weeks the once proud city of Detroit has been subject to a barrage of embarrassing media reports. The state takeover of the city’s finances and Kwame “The Hip-Hop…
Right-to-Work Takes Effect in Michigan
Union membership in America is at its lowest since the 1930s. Their members number 14.4 million members nationwide, but that number is shrinking, reducing their political clout.