Five Things We’re Reading

Nov 28, 2023

by Liz Gullett

As MLC’s Communications and Social Media Manager, Liz Gullett keeps clients informed and up-to-date on the goings on in Lansing and the Capitol.

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do.

Most Meetings Are Terrible. Here Are 5 Ways to Improve Them – How can you inject intention into meetings to ensure they aren’t simply routine?

This Is Exactly How Long People Expect You to Take to Respond to an Email – and Why it Matters – Over 600 people responded to this question and 60% of them had the same answer.

You Don’t Need to Earn Your Thanksgiving Feast with Exercise – Why justifying a large meal by exercising could be damaging to your mental health.

How Michigan Became the University of Jim Harbaugh – How did he become so beloved by the football community that even a recent scandal couldn’t cause them to turn on him?

Michigan Anti-Property-Tax Group Seeks to Get on 2024 State Ballot – Property taxes would be eliminated under a proposed ballot initiative but at what cost to schools and local services?

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