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Stimulating! Ten New Congressional Districts in Michigan!

My colleagues at Watchdog.org and its state-level affiliates were the first in the nation to break the story that the federal $787 billion stimulus package “has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to Recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.”
That includes Michigan. In its [...]

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What Price Information? Try $7 Million

$6,876,303.90, to be exact. That’s what the Michigan Department of State Police is charging for documents that I requested via the Freedom of Information Act regarding the state’s handling of federal homeland security grant money from 2002 to present (see image below). This is definitely a record for Mackinac Center FOIA requests. In fact, this [...]

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Shanghai Surprise: The Unionization of Home Day Care Providers

Michelle Malkin said it best when she said, “The Culture of Corruption has never hit so close to home.”
The prominent author, blogger and commentator was referring in a recent blog post to a shady scheme to shanghai Michigan’s home day care providers into a newly-formed, dues-paying labor union. Last month, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation [...]

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