Michigan At A Crossroads: Are We Pioneers Or Settlers?
Category: Chronicle Community Written by Tom Watkins
Picture yourself in the water where you can’t swim, bobbing and gasping for air. It’s sink or swim time. Either create the atmosphere for success or be doomed to failure. Necessity is, after all, the mother of invention.
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Leading Michigan to a Healthier Future In A Post-Reform World
Category: Chronicle Community Written by Daniel J. Loepp
Health care reform is certainly on our minds at this year’s Mackinac Policy Conference as we’ve just witnessed the enactment of the most groundbreaking health care legislation in the past 45 years. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March, will change the landscape of health care as we currently know it. However, passage of this legislation does not mark the end of the road. Instead, it is a step in the process of arriving at real, substantive health care reform.
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Below Basics: A Failing Grade For Leaders On Detroit Public Schools Issue
Category: Chronicle Community Written by Sam Logan
Below Basic.
That says it all. This is not low performing. It’s not performing at all. It’s not working.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:32
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We Have to Get It Right This Year
Category: Chronicle Community Written by Cynthia J. Pasky
A major point of focus at the 30th annual Mackinac Policy Conference is going to be this fall’s elections. It is my fervent hope that the focus is not on the horse race aspects of who’s going to win and lose, but rather on who will actually bring a commitment to developing sound public policy to Lansing.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:36
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A Lasting Mark That Cannot Be Erased
Category: Chronicle Community Written by Chronicle Staff
A fearless friend and optimistic opponent, Detroit Regional Chamber President and CEO Dick Blouse faced a daunting list of challenges upon his arrival nearly sixteen years ago. He never considered losing or leaving and there’s something good to say about a man like that.
Dick Blouse believed in diversity when diversity wasn’t’ a popular or proven goal. He guaranteed bottom line results with aggressive recruitment of small and minority business members. And he delivered, making the Detroit Chamber the largest metropolitan chamber of commerce in the United States, with 20,000 members.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:32
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