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Home / Friends & Family Blog / Mackinac Policy Conference

Mackinac Policy Conference

May 29, 2008

Yesterday I drove to Mackinac Island and arrived in time to bike up to the Grand Hotel, register, bike FAST and UP again to where I am staying, change and make it back for the ‘rookie orientation’ which basically was an excuse to give the rookies a glass of wine before things got started.  

There was an opening session that was quite interesting and talked about the current status of the Detroit Region and the urgent needs for a public transport system (of ANY kind) but more concentrating on the challenges that are specific to  Michigan like the low value placed on the need higher education and ones that are more global like a ‘flattening world’ where people can work anywhere and the more talented and educated the more mobile they are.  So they can work anywhere but they DO choose to work in communities (not on a mountain top via computer like ‘futurist’ thought 10 years ago).  The focus of the session will largely be on how to develop the environment to get these communities rebuilt. Not a simple task! 

 

The ‘strolling dinner’ was VERY elaborate with food stations everywhere and martini stations and desert and cocktail etc. etc.  I tried to be healthy and was back in my room before 9.  In time to see sunset behind the Mackinac Bridge.  

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Dawn Riley is one of the best-known sailors in the world. She was the first woman ever to manage an entire America's Cup syndicate, the first American, man or woman, to sail in three America's Cups and two Whitbread Round the World races and is one of the forerunners in providing community access into the sport of sailing. See her biography for more information.

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