STATEMENT ISSUED JULY 25 BY THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN STEERING COMMITTEE:
Last fall, we spoke out in opposition to organized efforts to recall legislators who voted to increase taxes in connection with Michigan's budget crisis. We said such recalls amounted to blackmail that stifled lawmakers' ability to do what voters sent them to Lansing to [...]

Dozens of Community Conversation participants and other subscribers to this newsletter have taken us up on our offer to host candidate conversations in the several dozen races for open Michigan State House of Representatives seats.
We will begin scheduling these meetings next week and those who've signed up will be contacted with prospective dates and times.
There's [...]

OK, so maybe you're not interested in running for office. You can still bolster public leadership in Michigan simply by participating in this year's Michigan elections and building interest among co-workers, friends and neighbors.
The Michigan Participation Project, a new web site launched by the Michigan Nonprofit Association, provides many of the tools state residents need [...]

Assuring Michigan has a "talented, globally competitive workforce" is consistently one of the very top priorities of citizens who've gathered in the Center for Michigan's statewide community conversations.
To get there, participants have urged such steps as intinesified reading, writing, math and science curricula and intensified early childhood learning programs.
Two recent events in the Grand Rapids [...]

This Michigan is one stirred-up place in a stirred-up time:
Phil Power senses we're at the dawning of a new and very uncertain era in Michigan and America as a whole.
Center board member and Detroit Renaissance President Doug Rothwell says we gotta fix basic competitive metrics if we are to maximize future prosperity.
Michigan's Defining Moment founding [...]