| The latest from the assortment of robots tasked by voters in 2010 to administer the state's executive branch offices. The report, produced by a panel Snyder appointed to examine state parks and outdoor recreation in Michigan, also calls for better funding for parks, clearer benchmarks on the results parks are expected to produce and development of a handful of signature parks, with an impact similar to Chicago's Millennium Park, in cities such as Detroit.
The stuff in bold is all me. I must be really old fashioned, because the result I expect a park to produce can't be measured in benchmarks. The primary result I expect a park to produce is the sense of escape from results that are measured in benchmarks. Babbitt nation, folks. Babbitt nation. |
