Five Things We’re Reading

Liz Gullett

Oct 17, 2017

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.

A Tool to Track All the Mobility Modes – This tool allows you to enter in any address or city to find out how user friendly a location is based on the availability of ridehailing, public transit, bike share, and car share. Currently, data has not been compiled for all cities, but is expanding in both the US and Canada. Michigan cities that have data available include Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Battle Creek.

This Tiny Country Feeds the World – What one European country is doing differently, with great results.

How Jerry Seinfeld Breaks Down a Joke Can Help You Build Up a Presentation – Want to make a presentation or business pitch better? Seinfeld’s joke-writing process can help you.

How Conservatives Learned to Love Free Lawyers for the Poor – The issue was once seen as government overreach, but now some see it as an example of government abuse.

Challenges for Women Leaders – Despite changing opinions toward women in the workplace, why haven’t the number of women in leadership roles increased?

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