Michigan won’t be reinvented in a day. Or a dog year. But as Gov. Rick Snyder concludes his first (human) year in office, the general course he defined as a candidate is coming into view as legislative markers are set.
Eight years of partisan division and economic decline prompted public interest groups such as The Center for Michigan and Business Leaders of Michigan to call for fundamental change in how Michigan compensates its employees, taxes its businesses and residents, and spends the tax dollars it takes in.
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When Rich Studley joined the Michigan Chamber of Commerce staff 40 years ago, there was a popular bumper sticker in that time of auto plant closures, double-digit unemployment and high inflation:"Will the last person leaving Michigan turn out the lights?Since then, Studley said he has used that…