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The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, founded in 1984, is a permanent community endowment built by gifts from thousands of individuals and organizations committed to the future of southeast Michigan. The Foundation works to improve the quality of life in southeast Michigan by supporting a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development and civic affairs.
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Michigan's capital is Lansing, in the Central Region, and Detroit in the Southeast Region is the largest city as well as the center for the country's automobile industry. Other major cities include Grand Rapids, Flint, and Warren.
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The geographic orientation of Michigan's peninsulas makes for a long distance between the ends of the state. Ironwood, in the far western Upper Peninsula, lies 630 highway miles (1,015 km) from the Toledo, Ohio suburb of Lambertville in the Lower Peninsula's southeastern corner. The geographic isolation of the Upper Peninsula from Michigan's political and population centers makes it culturally and economically distinct. Occasionally U.P. residents have called for secession from Michigan and establishment as a new state to be called "Superior."
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The Michigan Department of Treasury offers help in filling out the forms; information on that service is available by calling (800) 827-4000. In addition, the Accounting Aid Society is again partnering with Consumers Energy to conduct Tax Workshops to assist low-income residents in southeast Michigan. The workshops include help in filing Home Heating Credit applications. The workshops are held on Saturdays through April 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Consumers Energy's service centers in Pontiac and Royal Oak.
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As the historic base of the U.S. auto industry, Michigan's intra-state travel system is almost entirely dependent on the internal combustion engine. The most extensive public transit system is the Greyhound bus network, which reaches most population centers in much of the state. [13] Amtrak's three daily rail routes from Chicago connect certain cities in southern Michigan (see "Get in"). Most intra-state air service is out of Detroit Metro; there is no regular service between the state's small regional airports. Several of the larger cities have local bus services (Detroit ... has light rail), but the personal automobile remains the best way to get around within Michigan. Interstate, US, and state highways permeate southeast Michigan, crisscross the rest of southern Michigan, stretch up into northern Michigan, and trickle across the Upper Peninsula.
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Detroit Renaissance President Doug Rothwell said, "This level of coordination and collaboration has never occurred to this extent in Southeast Michigan, and never before has such an effort been focused on Southeast Michigan as a whole. One D: Transforming Regional Detroit will rollout specific elements of its regional plan in the weeks ahead. The strategies and tactics will be highly focused, manageable and measurable."
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