Desperate for Diversification
A brief history of Michigan’s economic development strategies
by Rick Haglund
January 16, 2010
Michigan was in big trouble as the decade of the 1980s dawned. Detroit’s automakers, collectively known then as the muscular Big Three, were beginning to see their dominance challenged by imports from upstart Japanese automakers. They were unprepared, and so [...]

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Blown Away
by Tim Skubick
November 20, 2009
Out of the blue, the governor was asked what title she would use if she wrote a book about her tenure in Lansing.
How about Blown Away?
You’ll recall that was the line she used in one of her State of the State speeches as she gushed about how her economic recovery [...]

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