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The Wayne County Probate Court will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 26, and Friday, November 27, 2015  and will reopen on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 8:00 a.m.

 

Carl Levin receives the  Milliken Distinguished Leadership Award


Carl M. Levin, former U.S. Senator, recently received the Milliken Distinguished Leadership Award from the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. Groundwork is a nonprofit advocacy organization located in Traverse City, Michigan, whose mission is to protect the environment, strengthen the economy and build community. Levin is senior counsel in the Corporate Department at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.

The award recognizes leaders who emulate the legacy of Governor William Milliken and the late Helen Milliken in their belief that a clean, healthy environment is necessary for a prosperous economy.
Groundwork honored Levin for his many environmental accomplishments for Northwest Michigan as a U.S. Senator, including:

• Sponsoring legislation that preserved more than 32,000 acres of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as wilderness

• Securing funding for the Boardman River Dams Removal Project—the largest wetlands restoration in the Great Lakes Basin

• Playing an instrumental role in the creation of the Grand Vision, which directly engaged 12,000 people to create a consensus vision for growth and development, transportation solutions and key priorities like housing, local agriculture and clean energy in northwest Michigan

Levin, who served 36 years in the U.S. Senate, focuses his legal practice on assisting publicly and privately held companies in identifying and addressing legal, business and reputational risks that may bring them under public or government scrutiny and result in legal action or loss of business.

Levin earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.


 

Deputy mayor to  discuss fixes for Detroit’s finances
 


“Fixing Detroit’s Finances” will be the topic addressed by Carol O’Cleireacain, deputy mayor for economic policy, planning and strategy, City of Detroit at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at Wayne State University, Alumni House, 441 Gilmour Mall.

Formerly a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, O’Cleireacain is an expert with experience at the highest levels of state and local government finance. She is particularly knowledgeable about the finances of fiscally troubled states and localities.

One of O’Cleireacain’s primary responsibilities in her current position is to identify new sources of external funding to make the city less dependent on annual tax revenues.
O’Cleireacain holds a doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan.
For more information, contact Cheri Miller, Wayne State University Department of Economics, 313-577-3346 or cmiller@wayne.edu.

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