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Michigan Prosperity Agenda: Entrepreneurs are Key to thriving Michigan Communities

Program Explores How to Make a Better Michigan

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The Michigan Prosperity Agenda is a monthly radio show that challenges listeners to help make Michigan a better place to live, work and play by creating vibrant and prosperous local communities. It has aired on News/Talk 760 WJR at 7 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month throughout 2010 and will continue through 2011.

The hour-long radio program is hosted by Dan Gilmartin, CEO of the Michigan Municipal League (the League). The show is sponsored by the League and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA). The show’s topics center around the concept of placemaking. To learn more about placemaking go to Dan’s blog: The Economics of Place, the state'snew placemaking resources website, Miplace.org and check out our book, The Economics of Place: The Value of Building Communities Around People, available on Amazon.com.

OUR NEXT SHOW airs at 7 p.m. June 27 on News/Talk 760 WJR, but you can listen now by clicking the links below. Guests discussed entrepreneurship and the role it has in moving Michigan back to prosperity.

View past radio shows here.

Listen to the full show: (37:51)

	Dan Gilmartin Dan Gilmartin, executive director and CEO of the Michigan Municipal League. Dan's intro: (01:01)
	Melissa Anders, Co-Host Melissa Anders is a statewide business reporter for MLive Media Group. She previously worked for the Lansing State Journal, where she covered the mid-Michigan business scene. She graduated from Michigan State University, where she won first place in the Hearst National Writing Championship and was named one of Scripps Howard Foundation’s Top 10 Student Journalists. Melissa Anders (7:00)
	Rob Fowler Rob Fowler is President and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan in Lansing. He discussed the Michigan Job’s Insight project and the new Entrepreneurship Scorecard that ranks the state on criteria important to entrepreneurs. Rob Fowler (10:01)
	Angel Gambino Angel Gambino has been called a serial entrepreneur with 20 years experience working with innovative media, tech and retail businesses. She founded Nonopoly, a property development company in Corktown that acquires strategic mixed-use properties. She talked about why she chose Michigan after working all over the world. Angel Gambino: (10:01)
	Leamon Sowell Leamon Sowell is President and Managing Partner of Sowell Law Partners. Sowell has been influential in handling a wide range of corporate transactions for minority entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs involving acquisitions, mergers and corporate turn-around matters. He discussed his efforts to assist minority and female business owners. Leamon Sowell: (09:48)