Jarrett Skorup

Building more housing — and building it now — is the best way to lower the cost of rent and mortgages in Michigan.

Those costs would be passed to tenants in the form of higher rents, specifically harming low-income residents. Better to reform zoning codes which would spur a greater housing supply.

The Mackinac Center argues schools are much better funded than typically is reported in the media.

Taxpayers should insist public universities be judged by how well, and how efficiently, they serve the public.

Michigan has a chance to set the standard on digital privacy.

The state’s institutions of higher education need to do better by their students and funders, including taxpayers.

Skyrocketing tuition can only be flattened by a massive state-aid injection, these analysts say. And Michigan has better things to do with that kind of money.

A Mackinac Center analyst says the way the state spends $1.5 billion on higher education is unfair.