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Jarrett Skorup

@jarrettskorup

VP Marketing/Comms @MackinacCenter. Economics, theology, Chicago sports teams, wrestling referee, coaching everything. @GroveCtyCollege alum.

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Predictions are tough, especially about the future. GM CEO Mary Barra in July of 2022: By 2025, GM will sell more EVs than Tesla. Today: Tesla sells more than 5x the EVs that GM does. (GM is gaining but...not even close).

Predictions are tough, especially about the future. 

GM CEO Mary Barra in July of 2022: By 2025, GM will sell more EVs than Tesla.

Today: Tesla sells more than 5x the EVs that GM does.

(GM is gaining but...not even close).
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BREAKING: States with CON laws were 27% more likely to run out of hospital beds during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Certificate of Need” (CON) laws require healthcare providers to get government permission before opening or expanding facilities.

BREAKING: States with CON laws were 27% more likely to run out of hospital beds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Certificate of Need” (CON) laws require healthcare providers to get government permission before opening or expanding facilities.
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Keeping in place government regulations so people are forced to stay in your state for lower pay is not a good strategy for Michigan! (And, of course, this complaint is absurd and ignores the people who would find it easier to move here).

Keeping in place government regulations so people are forced to stay in your state for lower pay is not a good strategy for Michigan! 

(And, of course, this complaint is absurd and ignores the people who would find it easier to move here).
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offered a company billions of dollars, and her administrators signed a contract saying that they won’t tell anyone about it. After the company canceled its project, officials disclosed the name of company and what was offered. This is not how the

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One thing I got a bit of crap for in the hallways of the Abundance conference is my not infrequent mockery of trains on Twitter. I’m sorry, trains are not an abundance technology. I think many people in the abundance scene like trains because: 1. America’s inability to build

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Would you rather part of your paycheck be dedicated for housing, food and transportation - or you just get the money as a lump sum to spend and prioritize how you choose? That's basically what the fight over Michigan's budget is about. mackinac.org/blog/2025/mich…

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Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:

“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most
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There’s a lot for local school administrators to like in the budget the Michigan House passed in August. But they don’t seem to want to see it. mackinac.org/blog/2025/free…

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Newly proposed legislation in Michigan would impose burdensome requirements on artificial intelligence systems. The predictable impact from these proposed laws would be to drive AI development out of the state, likely to China or other Asian economies. mackinac.org/blog/2025/ai-b…

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Homeless people are trespassing on private property, building structures and polluting and when the property owners tried to get the city to enforce the law, the city of Lansing field a lawsuit against them. detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

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Michigan has 10 million residents while North Carolina has 11 million. Their budget is $70 billion and ours is $84 billion. Where is the money going? Well...Michigan just spends more on basically everything. Hard to say that it improves our economy. mackinac.org/blog/2025/mich…