I apologize for the typo.

2) go seriously nuts with state mandatory alternative energy sources using Windfarms and Solar cells, geothermal energy for heat and cooling.
Mandate all state university buildings, all state government buildings and all commerical buildings over a certain acreage to add solar panels to the rooflines and put power back into the grid durin the day when rates are highest.
Add property tax rebates over 3 yrs to any residential addition of solar panels over a certain wattage.
Mandate geothermal energy usage for buildings.
Mandate Vegetable diesel or biodiesel for Michigan refueling stations for commercial fleets with rebates for conversion kits.

A place selling what they call Viesel in Florida for all diesel engines cars, trucks commercial trucking sells conversion kits for 500$ and up for all vehicles and claims identical mileage as 4.10/gallon diesel gives at a cost of $2.50/gallon.

Be the first state to fully separate commercial truck traffic and passenger vehicles using a two tier highway system.
Sure thats expensive, but we're only getting more congested, running out of room for expansion, and costing billions in repairs for the same result.
Passenger vehicles on top, trucking underneath.
Vehicle insurance and medical insurance would pry love it. Less crushed cars in big accidents, or pieces flying off killing people, or deer car accidents. Imagine all the commuter congestion lifted. How many times have truckers been moving along steady trying to save gas to get stuffed behind some guy going 55 in a 70? how many times has a truck pulled out in front of 9 cars in the left lane because he wanted to go 1mph faster than the slower truck in front of them, makin a slinky effect of 9 cars going 75 slam on their brakes?

How about massive investment in public transportation? I would love to see more trains/El-trains/subways etc being used to send people around town and between towns etc.
The perfect experiment for that is a Tri-cities area of Holland/GrandRapids/Muskegon.

How about more efficient prison and rehab processes, judgements, programs, sentencing?
How about universal health care or just more efficient coverage and prevention programs?

If the Feds can give back a big cash rebate to taxpayers all on a big loan to boost our economy, Can the state sell bonds to buy up old decrepit used cars, vans, trucks that average less than 14mpg and sell them for a nominal fee to salvage yards for the scrap and recycling, and the way to buy them would be to offer consumers a rebate check on a newer vehicle purchase at a tiered price up to a top amount. The rebate could be applied to the car price to lower the loan value and payments for the consumer.

Think of the multiple benefits of a program like that -
A) would get polluting vehicles getting bad mileage off the roads and gone for good.
B) would over a shortened time frame, up the average mileage of michigan's registered vehicle population, as opposed to attrition from usable lifecycle of older cars.
C) would get rid of more vehicles without modern safety equipment such as airbags, ABS, etc.
D) would be a boon to auto insurance companies delivering new policies
E) would help offset costs with new car registrations
F) would obviously be a boon to the used and new car market, of which michigan is currently being pounded from low sales nationwide.
G) could certainly be a quantifiable lessening of gasoline and leakable fluids used statewide over the programs time frame.
That could possibly lower demand and prices.

How about marketing more efficiently our water resources?
Business and citizens live in terribly dry places experiencing once in a century drought conditions like for the last year, Georgia, northern florida, the far west.
Lets market our state as WaterWorld.
"you thirsty" you want a green lawn and hardly water it each year? you want cheap municipal water/sewage treatment plants?

theres millions of things that can be done to help our state.

The competition for college kids is most easily noticeable just watching college sports recruiting. Florida, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and California - Routinely keep their own recruits, and attract from cold weather climates, and most of them have no better programs or colleges than the biggest and best in the cold like Notre Dame, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio state, Penn state, MIchigan etc.
Another thing is pay, many michigan employers refuse to up their payscales because they tell people, its cheap to live here.
Well it may still be inexpensive to find decent housing yet in comparison to the coasts, but cars, gas, utilities and food are just as expensive if not worse here than other states now. It wasnt that way 7 yrs ago but since then its gotten really tough for most families in this state to survive.

We should do some radical things. or face ghost towns.