Charlene M. Crowell This is Me

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1. 1. www.northernexpress.com

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   Published on: 11/29/2007   Last Visited: 11/29/2007

   Charlene Crowell • Great Lakes Bulletin News Service
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   Charlene M. Crowell, a print and broadcast journalist, is the policy advisor in the Michigan Land Use Institute's Lansing office.

2. 2. Michigan Land Use Institute

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   Published on: 8/18/2006   Last Visited: 8/18/2006

   Charlene Crowell, State Policy Director charlene@mlui.org 517-367-7415
   
   Since 2003, when she joined the Institute, Charlene has been our worldly and masterful representative in Michigan's state capital. She writes, organizes, and keeps us actively involved in state government affairs. Charlene directs the statewide 43-member coalition that the Institute established to reform transportation and land use policy in Michigan. She also directs the Institute's new project with the Detroit chapter of the NAACP to educate African American leaders about Smart Growth. Charlene brings to her work a remarkable breadth of journalism, communications, and public policy experience gained in a career that spans three decades and four states in the Midwest, South, and West. When she first wrote to us Charlene said she was "hopeful that the sum of my skills and experience will be a suitable match for this opportunity." It could hardly have been better. Charlene was born and raised in Gary, Indiana and graduated from Valparaiso University, where she studied French, government, and philosophy. During each of her years at Valparaiso, Charlene was recognized as a Hoosier Scholar, and received state-sponsored scholarships. She began her career as the weather anchor and public affairs host at WBRC-TV, a Taft Broadcasting station in Birmingham, Alabama. She spent a decade in Birmingham where she also was an account executive for WJLD/ WZZK radio, and media relations director for several organizations including the Alabama Bicentennial Black Expo, the Birmingham Area Council of Camp Fire, Inc., and Lakeshore Hospital. In the early 1980s she was summoned back to Gary by then-Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, where she became the first woman to serve as press secretary during his 20-year administration. She held that position for seven years. Charlene spent the late 1990s in Texas, where she was a business manager for Houston-based Advantage Communications Consultants, and a vice-president for Minority Opportunity News in Dallas. Prior to joining the Institute staff, Charlene was again asked to return to her home state where she served as press secretary to Karen Freeman-Wilson, the Indiana attorney general. Charlene is the winner of the 2000 A. Philip Randolph Messenger Award from the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and received the 1999 Best Editorial Award from the Texas Publishers Association. She was a delegate in 1995 to the U.S.-China Joint Conference on Women's Issues held in Beijing. Her papers are collected in the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest in Gary. A city girl, Charlene acknowledged after being invited by the Institute staff to spend a couple of days camping in the northern Michigan forest, "I like my comforts." That only stimulated her activist colleagues to convince Charlene to take a canoe trip on one of our gorgeous rivers, or spend a few days hiking in the Jordan Valley. Charlene responded that she's always open to new experiences and in her own patient way will "give it some thought."

3. 3. Michigan Smart Growth News Articles

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   Published on: 7/20/2006   Last Visited: 2/2/2008

   The long-overdue shift away from sprawl in key land-use practices such as school siting demands persistence, patience and broad cooperation, observes Michigan Land Use Institute (MLUI) State Policy Director Charlene Crowell, detailing a three-year fight to help Michigan communities revive older neighborhood schools and build new ones in or near their centers.
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   Originally, Director Crowell writes, the bill required zoning officials to review and assess plans "before any school in any city, village, or township" could build new premises or expand a building or athletic facility by more than 20 percent, with final decisions remaining with the state superintendent.
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   The next steps to direct "public school construction back towards established neighborhoods remain unclear," writes Director Crowell, citing Hard Lessons findings that homeowners and businesses must pay increasing property taxes to fund new schools in outer areas, along with additional municipal services for the sprawling development that follows.
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   The 13 measures, writes the Michigan Land Use Institute's Transportation Project director Charlene Crowell on its web page, passed by a landslide margin of 21 percent on average, while a similar measure failed only in Manistee County, by just a 10 percent margin.
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   Presented by Wayne Professor Lyke Thompson at the Southeast Michigan Summit on Regional Redevelopment last month, reports Michigan Land Use Institute policy specialist Charlene Crowell, the poll found majority support not only for farmland and open space protection, advocated by Democratic and Republican politicians alike, but also for the still controversial tax-base sharing, growth boundaries and new shopping-center limits.
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   The Ezekiel Project's clout is on the rise, writes Michigan Land Use Institute policy specialist Charlene Crowell.