Rumblings.(PGA Championship is being held at Oakland Hills Country Club.)(State Representative Leon Drolet is sponsoring bills that ensure free speech at taxpayer-funded sports venues.)(Edsel Ford II, Ford Motor Co. plans to step down as chairman of The Salvation Army's National Advisory Board.)

Crain's Detroit Business, September, 2006

Debates will heat up Future Forum meeting Fireworks often conclude events, so it's fitting that debate on hot-button ballot proposals on affirmative action and educational funding will this week close out a Traverse City gathering of business leaders, politicians and others. California businessman Ward Connerly, who is spearheading the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative ballot drive, will face off against Jon Barfield, chairman and CEO of Livonia-based The Bartech Group Inc., at the final session of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Future Forum, an annual public-policy conference on business and economic issues.

Arguing the merits of the "K-16'' ballot proposal, which would require the state to provide annual funding increases equal to the rate of inflation...

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