Part of this is a rant because I have a hard time getting past the fact that seemingly every politician/"civil servant" from every level of government around SE Michigan & a few other areas go to the $400/night Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island the end of every May on which I believe is the gov't's dime. This year seems to have added hysteria with live coverage from various media outlets [[You'd think Roberta Jacina from WWJ was a kid at Disneyland with her coverage.) It seems to me that nothing concrete has ever come out of this politician party. I remember one year, maybe 2005, Kwame Kilpatrick was able to get the metro Detroit 4 to agree on some regional transportation plan, but other than that I can't think of anything. Just wondering what opinions any DYessers had about this.