Senior Environmental Analyst: Russ Harding
  Editor: Michael Jahr

MichiganScience is a quarterly magazine that explores science-related policy matters. The magazine is available free of charge to members of the media and is being distributed to all Michigan legislators and their staffs; state agency personnel; educators; libraries; civic organizations; and science museum boards of directors.

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MichiganScience is published quarterly by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization devoted to analyzing Michigan public policy issues.

“MichiganScience helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers,” said Diane S. Katz. Katz was the Center’s director of science, environment and technology policy when MichiganScience was launched. “Informed policy choices require a basic understanding of scientific questions, not just political ones.” The debut issue of the high-gloss, four-color magazine features an examination of the environmental trade-offs of renewable energy; the latest findings on the quality of Michigan’s air, water and forests; and guidelines for interpreting science news. Also included are a list of scientific exhibits open to students, families and teachers; a forecast of legislative and regulatory actions; and the work of award-winning cartoonist Henry Payne. The content of MichiganScience is reviewed by the Mackinac Center Science Board of Advisors, which is composed of scholars and researchers from various scientific disciplines.