MACKINAC ISLAND Everybody knows a chirpy optimist, one of those sunshiny people always telling you to turn your frown upside down and look on the bright side.
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.