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| These Are Decisive, Not Divisive Times |
| Published: February 19, 2007 |
Last week in this space the Business Journal underscored the well-researched advice and admonition from the Center for Michigan, an Ann Arbor-based think tank that has held community meetings with business leaders, economic analysts and academics across the state. In its policy paper the center encouraged legislators: “Our elected leaders in the state House and Senate have a choice. They can take half-measures and make short-term fixes to get through this year’s financial crunch. Or they can finally solve the state’s structural budget deficit. A true solution requires a collective rise above the normal partisan, zero-sum, transactional political environment in Lansing to achieve common ground and fundamental change for the public good. It is an enormously difficult — and crucial — task.” |
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