* Business Leaders for Michigan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields. Steve Frisbee is
a state representative Republican from Penfield in Calhoun County who's
accountable for the condition of Michigan right now and where
do we go from here.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I think it's probably a waste to start pointing fingers,
and I think it's better a energy to start fixing
things in a direction that business leaders know best what
they need to be successful in this state. I think
we all need to start rowing in the same direction.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Speaking of business leaders, business Leaders for Michigan is united
by an ambitious goal to make Michigan a top ten
state for jobs and talent and a thriving economy. And
it's the direct involvement of the CEOs of the state's
leading employers and member companies that employ more than five
hundred and forty thousand Michiganders and generate over one trillion

(00:50):
dollars in economic activity. And oh, by the way, educate
more than half of Michigan's public university students. Guided by
research and verse perspectives, they develop strategies and share public policy,
and drive initiatives that bring people on ideas together to
ignite change for growth and shared prosperity and lasting progress

(01:13):
for all of us. For Michigan, and right now they
talk about innovation and how that's always been central to
Michigan's story and what's needed for our state is a
unified vision and a collective action that draws more talent
and increases investment and creates a healthy pipeline of scalable companies.
Speaking of pipelines, the Line five pipelines under the straits

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of Mackinaw are going to be part of the biggest infrastructure,
one of them in the state's history. And Ryan Duffy
from Enbridge Energy talked about how people can learn more
about the five hundred million dollar Great Lakes Tunnel that
Enbridge Energy will build. They have an information center in
Saint Ignas, and if you're going to the Bridge Walk
or you're in that area, you can wheel on in

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and check out this giant science project and bit of investment,
thanks to Ryan Duffy at Edinbridge Energy.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's two fourteen State Street right downtown Saint ning This
our information center. I'm actually going to be headed up
there later this afternoon, and we've been busy there with
so many people coming in visiting downtown saying Magna's in
the summer, taking the ferry over to the island. We've
had a lot of people stopping in, so that's just
fun for us and everyone is invited. There's all kinds

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of information there on the tunnel project. We have interactive displays.
We have our twenty foot model of our tunnel boring
machine in there, so a lot of people taking a
look at that. So everything you could ever really want
to know on how the tunnel is going to be built.
And the information center opens at nine most mornings except

(02:45):
Friday that opened to noon and then closed on Sunday.