Bridge Feed- Urban farm plan reels in cash, tilapia
- Ethnic media alliance pushes stories of success, provides community leadership
- Michigan goes hard after student loan defaulters
- State takes cautious approach to freight hub proposals
- Land O Links
- Guest column: Student loan debt is next big bubble
- Half the investment on colleges means a full measure of trouble for Michigan
- Report: Michigan’s license ‘burden’ is above average
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Michigan brewers see pink elephants
There’s a great little brewery called Original Gravity in the little town of Milan, south of Ann Arbor, where I live. In one of those survivalist tales so common throughout Michigan, a former Big Three auto engineer chucked it all a while back and decided to serve his own beer for a living. The place [...]
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Low educations and low incomes
Ten years ago, as Michigan’s auto factories and suppliers were full of workers and prosperous suburban sprawl pushed further and further into the farm fields, it was almost inconceivable to see how far the state’s fate could fall in a single dark decade.
Yet even then some economists and education experts were whispering that Michigan’s last [...]
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50 Ideas to Fix Michigan
Here’s an example of the good things that can come out of those giant gabfests like the annual policy conference on Mackinac Island right after Memorial Day each year… This year on the Island, Detroit News editorial page editor Nolan Finley and a number of folks in the Center for Michigan tribe cooked up the [...]
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