Grand Rapids Bar Association offers membership directories, seeks Constitution Day volunteers
Directories: The 2013 Grand Rapids Bar Association Membership Directories are available for pre-order from now until Aug. 18. They contain the most up-to-date contact information for GRBA member attorneys, federal, state, and local courts, plus related agencies and area legal organizations.
To order, visit www.grba.org and click on the link.
Constitution Day: Each September, the GRBA partners with the Grand Rapids Public Schools to provide special lessons on the U.S. Constitution to area students. The program's goal is to match each of the district’s 60 fifth grade classrooms with one attorney, who provides one hour of interactive instruction. This year, the date is Sept. 17. To register, visit https://
m360.grbar.org/event.aspx?
eventID=85232&instance=0
Both of the above require a GRBA user ID and password.
Michigan local officials’ trust in federal, state, and other local governments studied
In early July, the University of Michigan's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) released a report which examines Michigan local officials’ trust in the federal government in Washington D.C., in Michigan's state government, and in other local governments, as well as comparing local officials’ levels of trust to those of Michigan citizens.
As part of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), CLOSUP surveyed local government leaders from 1,350 Michigan jurisdictions (counties, cities, townships, and villages) about trusting the federal, state, and other local governments. Compared to findings from the 2009 survey, the 2013 MPPS survey results show:
—low and still declining trust toward the federal government among Michigan local leaders;
—low but growing trust among Republican and Inde-
pendent local leaders toward the state government, versus low and declining trust among Democratic local leaders;
—consistently high trust among all partisan groups of local leaders toward other local governments.
In addition, when compared to the state’s citizens, Michigan’s local leaders are significantly less trusting of the federal government, about equally trusting of the state government, and significantly more trusting of local government in general.
The full report is available on the CLOSUP home page: http://closup.umich.edu.
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