New Governor, New Evaluations of the Direction Michigan Is Headed among Local Leaders

Abstract

This report presents the opinions of Michigan’s local government leaders regarding the direction in which the state is headed, as well as their evalua-tions of the job performance of Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Legislature. These findings are based on statewide surveys of local government leaders in the Spring 2019 wave and tracking comparisons to previous spring waves of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS).