Welcome to the Bridge Special Reports Page. This will be home to our best, most-in-depth work, including these past reports from the Center for Michigan’s e-newsletter:
- Economic Life in Michigan (August 2011)
- Weighing In on Reinvention (May 2011)
- Common Sense Conversation About Michigan’s Future (March 2011)
- Re-Drawing Michigan – How Redistrcting Pre-determines many election results and often leaves voters without competitive choices at the polls (February 2011)
- School Daze 2 – Michigan’s Shrinking School Year (January 2011)
- Common Sense Reform Summit Issue Guide (December 2010)
- 10,000 Voices to Transform Our State: Citizens’ Agenda 2010 (June 2010)
- 2010 Michigan Scorecard (April 2010)
- Education Issue Guide (March 2010)
- Tax & Budget Reform Issue Guide (November 2009)
- Michigan’s Regional Economies (October 2009)
- Government Collaboration & Accountability Issue Guide (May 2009)
- School Daze: Michigan’s Shrinking School Year (March 2009)
- Pocketbook At-A-Glance (February 2009)
- $1.5 Billion in Reform Choices (January 2009)
- Thinking & Doing (July 2008)
- Michigan’s Defining Moment: A Common Ground Agenda for Our State’s Future (May 2008)
- 2008 Michigan Scorecard (February 2008)
- Swift Gazelle’s and Lumbering Lions (January 2007)
- A New Model Michigan (January 2007)






















State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
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Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
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Poverty rises even as economy turns
Since the 1960s 4 out of 5 manufacturing jobs have been lost to automa
Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
Wait a minute here, Snyder and the Repugs gave $1.8 Billion to corpora
State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
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