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Common Ground Agenda for Michigan's Transformation
May 21, 2008 – 11:02 am
A New Michigan Scorecard
May 21, 2008 – 11:00 am
If you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s bipartisan Emergency Financial Advisory Panel preached that maxim more than a year ago.
"With regard to taxes, investment, and structural reforms, Michigan should set benchmarks drawn from best practices in Great Lakes and comparable states," those veteran state budget experts declared [...]
The Michigan Tax Malaise
May 21, 2008 – 10:25 am
Three years ago, momentum began to build to overhaul Michigan’s business tax system.
Conventional wisdom held that our old Single Business Tax was too complicated and
cumbersome and inhibited the ability to attract, retain and grow business.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Michigan Hunting and Fishing Licenses Bargains too Good to be True
October 19, 2007 – 10:55 am
Michigan boasts some of the very best hunting and fishing anywhere in the United States. Anglers and hunters vote with their waders and boots. Only two states (Texas and Pennsylvania) have more hunters than Michigan. Only four states (Minnesota, Florida, Texas, and California) have more anglers than Michigan.
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Comprehensive School Reform
March 29, 2007 – 4:56 pm
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL REFORM by Dave Campbell, Superintendent of Olivet Schools
Swift Gazelles and Lumbering Lions
January 17, 2007 – 4:56 pm
Swift Gazelles and Lumbering Lions (March 2007) - Should we scale the Kalamazoo Promise?
A New Model Michigan
January 1, 2007 – 4:55 pm
A New Model Michigan (January 2007) - Eight ideas to structurally change how Michigan does the public's business in these difficult economic times.
Degrees & Workplace Needs - How Well Do They Match?
July 1, 2006 – 4:55 pm
Degrees & Workplace Needs - How Well Do They Match? (July 2006) - A compilation of degrees granted by Michigan universities in the past five years raises questions about how well the grads match up with the needs of the Michigan economy.
Government Employee Analysis
July 1, 2006 – 4:55 pm
Government Employee Analysis (July 2006) - Michigan has a leaner state and local government workforce than all but five other states. But our government workers earn higher wages than those in most states, Michigan demographer and census ace Kurt Metzger found in an analysis for The Center for Michigan.
"Growing Communities" Keynote
June 8, 2006 – 4:55 pm
"Growing Communities" Keynote (June 2006) - The trouble with state reform, the need for better legislators, and growing a new citizen movement were among the topics Center President Phil Power discussed in a keynote speech at the Grand Valley Metro Council's "Growing Communities" conference in Grand Rapids.
