Comments on: Toward a common North Coast agenda http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/toward-a-common-north-coast-agenda/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:42:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark Steckloff http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/toward-a-common-north-coast-agenda/#comment-5491 Mark Steckloff Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:57:16 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/toward-a-common-north-coast-agenda/#comment-5491 Well, that didn't take long! The Governor appropriated one of the North Coast Project's ideas in her State of the State. She proposed just such a venture capital pool from state pension assets for promising, job-creating, talent-retaining patents and technologies. (Of course, her proposal is on a statewide rather than regional basis.) Well, that didn't take long! The Governor appropriated one of the North Coast Project's ideas in her State of the State. She proposed just such a venture capital pool from state pension assets for promising, job-creating, talent-retaining patents and technologies. (Of course, her proposal is on a statewide rather than regional basis.)

]]> By: Andy McFarlane http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/toward-a-common-north-coast-agenda/#comment-4646 Andy McFarlane Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:41:24 +0000 http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/toward-a-common-north-coast-agenda/#comment-4646 Count me in. I especially love the Great Lakes Restoration as a mini Marshall Plan and ending the zero sum game that moves factories from state to state and benefits nobody in the end. Count me in.

I especially love the Great Lakes Restoration as a mini Marshall Plan and ending the zero sum game that moves factories from state to state and benefits nobody in the end.

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