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James M. Hohman

James M. Hohman is the director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research and educational institute in Midland, Mich.
by | Oct 28, 2024

Last week, someone in Georgia won the Powerball lottery and became an overnight multi-millionaire. The jackpot was over $478 million and the winner had two options for collecting their prize — a smaller (though still hefty) lump sum cash payment…

by | Nov 20, 2023

If you build mass transit, they will come. That “Field of Dreams” thinking is one of the operating assumptions behind the unprecedented federal and state spending spree on public transportation. The Biden administration is doling out as much as $108 billion on mass transit,…

by and | Apr 2, 2023

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer decided recently that the Chinese-owned TikTok app exposed state workers to too much security risk and banned the app from state devices. All except her own account. She gets to play by different rules. It’s not the…

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