Click here for the Center of Michigan (Budget) Issues Guide. “This guide allows citizens to quickly cut through the noise and grasp the key facts in the state budget debates. Spend 10 minutes with this guide and you’ll have a good grasp on how our tax and budget system works,” said Center for Michigan Executive Director John Bebow. The Issue Guide isn’t designed to sway citizens to one view or another, merely empower them with information on the key topics being debated in Lansing. The Center, and its partners, Detroit Public Television and MiVote.org, are using the guide in a series of town-hall meetings — Common Sense Conversations — on the fiscal and policy challenges confronting our state. ”We encourage people to forward this guide to friends, neighbors and co-workers so we can all create a more informed public,” Bebow said. (uploaded 4/7/11)