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State Employee Pay Grows 25 Percent Above Inflation Since 1999 — The figures include the value of all benefits from state-paid retirement contributions to dry cleaning allowances.

New Air Standards Unrealistic — Arguably, the new and much stricter standards that the EPA is proposing for ozone could have nearly as big an effect on the American economy as the CO2 regulations.

Checking on the UAW — Highlights from the 2009 LM-2 form.

Michael Moore Inadvertently Makes Case Against Film Subsidies (Again) — One wonders how Wall Street bankers would have been treated in his film had their response to Moore's criticism been, "Our board of directors wanted it."

Can We Build Better Teachers? — Another study shows that teacher professional development programs don't guarantee higher student achievement.

Mackinac Center Policy Staff Discuss 'Texting While Driving' Ban — Has Jack McHugh turned into a squish on nanny-statism?

Intellectually Bankrupt — One reads and rereads Teamsters President James Hoffa's musings in vain for some hint of a solution to the state's problems -- even a misguided one -- but there is none.