This land is your land, this land is my land, but if you think you’re holding your bonfire in front of my cottage? We might have a problem.
For Michigan shore-dwellers, life’s a beach, and that’s the problem
Posted inBrunch with Bridge
Reset the new year, and take a walk outside
You’re probably already failed at whatever you resolved on New Year’s Eve. So why not give yourself a break and try again on Earth Day?
Posted inUrban Affairs
Graffiti’s role in the revival of Michigan cities
Across Michigan, the writing’s on the wall. How you feel about graffiti depends on your age, your attitude, and whether you mind spray paint in an urban landscape.
Posted inUrban Affairs
A choice for cities: Destroy graffiti or restrict it
Some cities now have safe zones for legal graffiti in a bid to contain it. Whether graffiti writers will comply is another question.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Grand Rapids must deal with its debt
If Grand Rapids wants to avoid the kind of financial crisis afflicting Detroit, it must begin to deal decisively with the pension and healthcare debts that are weighing the city down.
Posted inQuality of Life
For-profits gobbling up community hospitals in Michigan
Nonprofit community hospitals, once a backbone of civic life, are increasingly selling out as health care changes make survival difficult. For-profits bring infusions of cash to hospitals and communities, but also concerns about costs.
Posted inQuality of Life
Michigan hospitals – Who owns what
Keeping a tally of the changing hospital landscape in Michigan: At least a dozen community hospitals in Michigan have been purchased since 2010 by larger health systems
Posted inQuality of Life
Hospital consolidations tend to raise prices, change priorities, studies find
Competition among hospitals tends to keep medical prices down. Other studies find that for-profit hospitals tend to invest more in services that make more money.
Posted inGuest Commentary
There’s economic power in Michigan’s creative industries
Creative industries add more than $3 billion and 75,000 jobs to the state’s economy; something to remember in funding school arts programs.
Posted inThe Center for Michigan
March Madness: Center for Michigan crisscrossing the state for last three weeks of conversations
The shot clock is winding down on your opportunities to share YOUR agenda for Michigan in the Center for Michigan’s current round of community conversations. You have just three weeks remaining to attend one of these discussions and voice your opinions, ideas, and priorities for Michigan’s future. These conversations are an easy, convenient, and fun […]