F'rinstance...bring back cheap energy! (This would positively impact every business and citizen that uses energy.) Disencumber builders and contractors from ridiculous energy regulations that make construction so much more expensive while offering specious payoff targets decades into the future.  Make Michigan a right to work state--few other changes could make Michigan a more competitive marketplace in which businesses could expand or relocate to.  Stop forcing people to buy what they do not want such as ethanol in their gasoline, mercury in their light bulbs, and plastic in their automobiles.  

Not only would these changes make businesses operate more efficiently, it would also allow consumers to keep more of their earned money in their pockets so that they could, dare I utter the phrase, spread the wealth around.  Growing businesses could hire more people, working people would generate greater government revenues, and the bureaucracy in charge of making sure every i is dotted and every t is crossed could be downsized.  

But, back to the smoking in bars thing...the old saying goes that the difference between a surgery and a serious surgery is that the serious one is the one that occurs to you.  

would turn the economy around is a very, very long stretch, highly improbable.

This statement was made where again?

As for bias, no shit that an organization is going to have an agenda. Even charities have a damn agenda.

Regardless, bias is irrelevant to the validity of an argument.