In today's edition of the Traverse City Record-Eagle, columnist George Weeks writes about Cheboygan County Drain Commissioner Dennis Lennox, Republican candidate for the State House, supporting a constitutional convention to address Michigan's challenges and reform government to meet today's realities.

Snippets of Week's column are below:

Con-Con Coming?

Led by businessman George Romney, who later became governor, voters supported a constitutional convention that led to a 1961-62 rewrite, which produced the Constitution of the State of Michigan of 1963.

A proposal to call a constitutional convention automatically goes before voters every 16 years. They rejected it in 1978 and 1994.

I suspect they will reject it again when Proposal 1 is on the Nov. 2 ballot. Too much opportunity for mischief on social and other issues that divide us.

But the ever-thoughtful Sen. Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, a candidate for governor, made a good pitch in a phone chat last week that "the benefits outweigh the risks." He also said much of the deliberations could have a "Web-based format ... in the Age of the Internet." In a Senate speech, he said a con-con "offers the best single opportunity to re-craft Michigan and put it on a new path."

Also last week, Granholm told The Detroit News: "The state of Michigan is dramatically different than it was in 1961, and we need a foundation document that reflects the 21st century."

Conservative Cheboygan County Drain Commissioner and Republican state House candidate Dennis Lennox agrees, saying that the state's challenges "require a new constitution that overhauls and restructures government to reflect the realities of the 21st century.

"Quite simply, radical reform is needed because Lansing's tired, old partisan ideas are not working -- and have not worked for some years."

I have yet to figure this out. But it is time for all of us to tune in to the debate and weigh the arguments.