2/27/08

Daniel Howes, columnist for the Detroit News wrote a piece called: "Granholm struggles as vision hits reality" that talks about Detroit Renaissance's State Structural Reform Agenda. Here are the first few paragraphs:

She wouldn't be mistaken for a Republican, but Gov. Jennifer Granholm is striking a decidedly business-friendly tone in year six of her administration.

Detroit Renaissance, the coterie of southeast Michigan CEOs pushing its own agenda of structural reform, might be pleased to know she embraces its laundry list of reform which, in what felt Tuesday like a previous political life, she expended political capital to quash late last summer.

With the business group's revived reform agenda in one hand, she goes through its points one at a time. Match any increases in state spending with budget cut? "We're doing it," Granholm tells me during an hourlong chat in the boardroom of what was the General Motors Building and now is Cadillac Place...

Read the rest of the story here.