His goal: to win "the Mac"--Lake Michigan's annual race from Chicago to Mackinac Island.
Tales of the Chicago Mackinac Race 1898-1998, available in hardcover from the Chicago Yacht Club.
Vincent Vernuccio is the director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
During the summer, Mackinac hosts the world's longest freshwater yacht race and an annual fudge festival.
For a step back in time, visit Michigan's Mackinac Island, which is reminiscent of a Victorian luxury getaway.
By the time awards were handed out Tuesday afternoon at the Mackinac Island Yacht Club, Kwok was a beaten man.
The council was established three decades ago during another Mackinac Island gathering inspired largely by concern that Great Lakes water might be piped or shipped to arid regions.
Outsourcing is often seen as the culprit (even though a report issued this month at the Mackinac Policy Conference suggested that it accounted for only one in eight of the jobs lost).
The Detroit Federation of Teachers, which enjoys rich pay packages (corrected for purchasing power, Michigan teachers are the best paid in the nation, reported the Mackinac Center for Policy Policy), would do the UAW proud.
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"There's no doubt that hybrid owners end up spending just as much on gasoline as before because the added efficiency allows them to rationalize driving more miles, " says David Littmann, economist at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Compiled by the Island Goats Sailing Society, it contains essays, articles and many historic photographs--though none, sadly, that show drunken yachtsmen trying to steal the cannon from old Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, which they tried to do (unsuccessfully) in 1960.
Then watch The Race to Mackinac, a 2002 documentary produced by Chicago public television station WTTW. The station put cameras on two boats and zoomed in on such passing scenery as Sleeping Bear Dunes (a national park on the Michigan coast) and Beaver Island, where a rogue Mormon leader once declared himself king.
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