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The Center for Michigan publishes papers on a variety of topics pertinent to our mission of making Michigan the great state we all want it to be. In the links below, you can read our reports on tax and education reform, as well as our white paper entitled "The New Model Michigan," which was the starting point for our public engagement campaign, Michigan's Defining Moment.

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Jul 28, 2008
Thinking and Doing
A statewide group of bipartisan business and political leaders formed the Center for Michigan in early 2006 to assist our state through its current period of wrenching economic trouble and create informed hope for a better future Michigan. Click Here to read full report

May 21, 2008
Common Ground Agenda for Michigan's Transformation
Click to read Michigan's Defining Moment one year report: A Common Ground Agenda for Michigan's Transformation

May 21, 2008
A New Michigan Scorecard
If you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s bipartisan Emergency Financial Advisory Panel preached that maxim more than a year ago. "With regard to taxes, investment, and structural reforms, Michigan should set benchmarks drawn from best practices in Great Lakes and comparable states," those veteran state budget experts declared [...]

May 21, 2008
The Michigan Tax Malaise
Three years ago, momentum began to build to overhaul Michigan’s business tax system. Conventional wisdom held that our old Single Business Tax was too complicated and cumbersome and inhibited the ability to attract, retain and grow business. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Click to read full paper

Oct 19, 2007
Michigan Hunting and Fishing Licenses Bargains too Good to be True
Michigan boasts some of the very best hunting and fishing anywhere in the United States. Anglers and hunters vote with their waders and boots. Only two states (Texas and Pennsylvania) have more hunters than Michigan. Only four states (Minnesota, Florida, Texas, and California) have more anglers than Michigan. Click link to view complete paper: [...]

Mar 29, 2007
Comprehensive School Reform
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL REFORM by Dave Campbell, Superintendent of Olivet Schools


01/17/2007
Swift Gazelles and Lumbering Lions

01/01/2007
A New Model Michigan

07/01/2006
Degrees & Workplace Needs - How Well Do They Match?

07/01/2006
Government Employee Analysis

06/08/2006
"Growing Communities" Keynote

06/04/2005
Gov. William G. Milliken's Remarks

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