The Center for Michigan :: A Forum for Our State's Future


Conact Us
Newsletter
About the Center
Michigan's Defining Moment
Donate
The Center at Work

Crain's Detroit Business: "Young Adults Offer Ideas to Fix Michigan"


By The Center for Michigan - October 30, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, I invited 15 people to a meeting room at the Detroit Athletic Club for a "community conversation."

That's how Phil Power describes the small-scale discussions he's orchestrating throughout the state about a new, nonpartisan agenda to fix Michigan. I'm one of 100 volunteers who agreed to host such a meeting in a process that, as Crain's Sherri Begin reported on Oct. 15, Power hopes will grow to at least 10,000 participants by the 2010 elections.

As we look to Lansing and the inability of elected leaders to radically transform the state, I hope Michigan can last that long.

 READ FULL ARTICLE


Related Posts
Grand Rapids Press - "Advocate Tries to Mobilize Citizens' Movement"
Crain's Detroit Business - June 2, 2008
Saginaw News - "Group Believes Citizens have Power to Change Michigan"
Crain's Detroit Business - June 2, 2008
Detroit News Editorial - May 25, 2008

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *
*
*