From the mouths of babes

I'll giive the Greater Detroit Chamber an ounce of credit for inviting young professionals from SE Michigan to this year's Mackinac Policy Conference, but just an ounce. That's because they weren't invitied to join the show until Friday with a program on Saturday when nearly all the attendees including legislators and old line business types had gone home. So instead of talking to a group of 1000, they were mostly talking to themselves. Hopefully next year, they'll be folded right in to the regular programming. That said, one of the attendees was Ashley Aidenbaum a recent UM grad who now works for the state's Cool Cities program. One of the organizations that's willing to give these millenials a front and center seat is the Michigan Municipal League who featured Ashley recently in their weekly blog.