MSU’s Michigan Government Semester Program students have been interning in Lansing and studying public policy issues this semester. Click below to read their papers on important issues facing the state, hosted by the Michigan Policy Network:
How Mental Health Courts Benefit Mentally Ill Criminals
Kyle McKee
Nicholas Reynolds
The Human Trafficking Commission: Michigan’s Effort to Combat Domestic Human Trafficking
Meghan Holtz
Mental Health Budget Reflections
Kaitlyn Cox
Michigan’s Concealed Carry Law
Jacob Guenther
High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing: Impact and Regulation
Marina Carabellese
Legislative Plans for Detroit Public Schools
Erica Chiodo
Straight Ticket Voting: Valuable or Detrimental to Democracy?
Sydney Glanz
Adam Grodman
Medical Marijuana Movement in Michigan
Kori Krc
Regulation of On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems
Matthew McLaughlin
Katherine Pino
Gun Regulation and Proper Storage and Maintenance of Firearms
Leanne Pregizer
Recreational Passports in Michigan
Molly Signs-Rehmann
Continued Tax Delinquency and Tax Recidivism in the City of Detroit
Keisha Todd
A More Convenient Voting Experience for Michigan
Courtney Tononi
Michigan’s Electric Choice Experience
Derrell Slaughter
Sukriti Saxena
Michiganders Should Prepare for Recreational Marijuana
Lindsay Reed