Small changes are getting us nowhere, Tom Watkins argues in his op-ed piece in the Dearborn Press and Guide. He says we need much more than balanced budgets, contract renegotiations, privatization, layoffs and service cuts. "We need to position our region for the future," he writes..
Metro Detroit needs a leader who has a vision for a better future and will take bold action to help move us forward with a sense of urgency that is matched with an unstoppable determination.
So why not seek ways to minimize costs, enhance efficiency and better market and manage the region through a modern city-county consolidation? It’s insane to maintain government structures created in a different age from our fast-paced, hyper-competitive, disruptive, knowledge economy, where ideas and jobs can and do move around the globe effortlessly.
