“The Michigan political class is often flying blind,” Ken Braun of the Midland-based Mackinac Policy Center, said.
“Both political parties are equally culpable for the jam we’re in,” Phil Power, founder of the Center for Michigan, added.
“Party politics have superceded public policy,” said John Rakolta, a prominent Republican benefactor and owner of the Walbridge Aldinger development [...]
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