ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: As the U.S. has left its agrarian roots behind, cities and metro areas are the country’s new economic drivers, a new book by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley posits. (Photo of Jackson by Flickr user Lane Montgomery/used under Creative Commons license) There’s a revolution afoot. Have you heard? If you have […]
In the nation’s increasingly powerful cities, a need for serious thinking
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A conservative case against small-town Walmarts
WHAT PRICE BARGAINS? While Walmart’s low prices may help some shoppers, a store in a small community carries other costs, says Conor Dugan. (Photo by Flickr user Ron Dauphin/used under Creative Commons license) This spring, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced plans to build a Supercenter east of the towns of Whitehall and Montague, just […]
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Fighting anti-gay bigotry to boost the Michigan economy
In 2009, a gay couple in Flint claims they encountered a work place environment that could charitably be called unpleasant. A lawsuit states that while working at a Rochester adult foster care facility, Gilbert and Jeremy Hall received phone calls from employees of the facility “that sounded like gunshots.” In November, the suit claims, Gilbert […]
Posted inQuality of Life
Michigan Piracy Postcard: How scrappers stole a church congregation’s dream
Keith Hill had a dream for his church. Befitting a congregation of only 20 families, it wasn’t a big dream, but it was theirs – to find a permanent home for both the church and a ministry they hoped to start, providing job training for young people of the nearby neighborhoods of Brightmoor and Grandmont Rosedale […]
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A new PATH for Michigan workers gains friends and foes
Demita Burnett admits she made some poor decisions in her young life that ultimately led her to seek welfare assistance in January. The 26-year-old Saginaw resident, a single mother of a 5-year-old son, had few job skills, no transportation and not even a driver’s license or state identification card. “Financially, I had no other choice […]
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Survey says old Michigan jobs training program worked
Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s No Worker Left Behind program was a wildly ambitious effort to retrain more than 100,000 laid-off or low-income workers for new jobs as the state’s manufacturing base imploded. Although the $500 million program faced criticism for its effectiveness during its three-year run between 2007 and 2010, a new survey has found that […]
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Black males in Michigan die at an alarming rate
CLICK to enlarge While Michigan may be aging faster than any other state, our overall death numbers are not growing. Provisional death totals for 2011, just released by Michigan’s Department of Community Health, show that the total number of deaths in Michigan fell by 313 between 2010 and 2011. If we were to look at […]
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Now hiring: Bridge Magazine seeks senior editor
The Center for Michigan has an immediate opening for a creative, entrepreneurial, senior-level editor to manage and grow Bridge Magazine (www.bridgemi.com). Bridge Magazine is a national award-winning, online publication dedicated to in-depth news and analysis of issues affecting Michigan residents. We focus on the “How” and the “Why” of life in our state, offering scope […]
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Auto rates drive voters into hiding
Alok Sharma analyzes data for a living. In 2010, he had a client, a politician, who was running for office and wanted to know if it was worth his time to campaign door-to-door in Detroit’s high-rise apartment buildings. Sharma thought the answer might be found by running a high-rise address through the Qualified Voter File, […]
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A multi-talented horse spreads joy across Michigan
Clifford the wonder horse Clifford is quite accomplished. He’s an abstract painter, a dancer and the subject of a published biography, and goes on statewide tours to spread the message of empathy. He also has four hooves and a tail. Clifford , also known as “Clifford of Drummond Island,” is the Morgan horse owned, trained […]
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