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Category Archives: Quality of Place
GUEST COLUMN: A call for in-depth Michigan journalism
Editor’s Note: The Center for Michigan recently convened a panel of about a dozen former Michigan journalists who’ve left the profession. Our topic: ways to reinvigorate civics-minded journalism in an era when it is growing more and more difficult to make a living by working for the traditional media outlets. The panel we convened certainly [...]
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SPECIAL REPORT: AN INSIDE LOOK AT MICHIGAN’S REGIONAL ECONOMIES
Beyond the dismal unemployment numbers, what’s happening in Michigan’s economy? Are there spots of growth? Are some regions healthier than others? How do Michigan’s distinct regional economies compare to others in the Great Lakes and across the nation?
New numbers from the feds provide fascinating and provocative answers to those questions.
At the end of September, the [...]
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ArtPrize shows Michigan the value of arts investment
The launch of ArtPrize, west Michigan’s brand new interactive arts competition, was, by all accounts, a huge success last weekend.
More than 28,000 people registered to vote in the competition and a thousand people an hour or more were streaming through the ArtPrize headquarters over the weekend.
Already, stories are brewing about the spin-off business from the [...]
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Visionaries thinking out loud
What better time than now for Michigan-built inspiration?
In celebration of its 80th anniversary, The Henry Ford is launching a wonderful online collection of oral histories this fall. At www.OnInnovation.com, you will be able to see oral histories from some of the greatest inventors and change agents in the recent history of our state and our [...]
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SUCCESS STORY: Pitching in for small-town success
By Jo Mathis
In the 84 years she’s lived in Albion, Maggie Green has seen one change after another. And considering how the city of 9,000 has been affected by the recession, they’ve not all been for the better.
But Green has never been as proud of her hometown as she’s been since she co-founded the Albion [...]
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More floats in the Michigan Love Parade
It seems we’ve missed a few great places in our running list of Michigan towns that recently won national quality of life honors.
In addition to Marquette’s great outdoors, Midland’s great tennis, and Grayling’s awesome trout fishing, we can add…
…Traverse City’s fantastic life for retirees. In July, USA Today’s “Weekend” magazine named T.C. one of the [...]
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SUCCESS STORY: Student life revitalizes downtown Flint
By Jo Mathis
A year ago, the 16-story vacant hotel in downtown Flint was a symbol of the struggling city’s dashed dreams.
That’s about to change.
Next Wednesday, some 250 college students will move into the first eight floors of the newly renovated Riverfront Residence Hall, the latest boost to a city on the upswing.
“Studies show that one [...]
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Incredible community vision and giving
An amazing thing happened last week in Metro Detroit. Thousands of people came together all at once to support a very good cause… the region’s arts and cultural organizations.
And when I say support, I mean SUPPORT!
Some 10,000 people went online (many of them all at once) and donated $2.5 million to more than 75 [...]
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National pundits love Michigan's trout, tennis, art, and so much more
Another Michigan community won yet another high national honor for quality of life this month.
Grayling, that lovable, rough-and-tumble town just north of where I-75 and US-127 meet, was just named one of America’s “10 Ten Trout Towns.” Disclosure: Your author shares this bias for the great fishing of the pristine Au Sable and Manistee river [...]
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MI's slow birth rate has long-term consequences
Editor’s Note: Michigan is one of the slowest growing states in the nation in recent years in terms of babies born. That stat has significant long-term consequences on a mid-20th Century public sector system of roads, governments, schools and universities built with the expectation of an ever-growing population. One of Michigan’s leading demographers, Kurt Metzger, [...]
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