In a column, Free Press editorial writer Jeff Gerritt points up the importance of technical and vocational training available at Michigan 's community colleges. "Community colleges are pivotal to the state's efforts to train and retrain workers, and to the prospects of a lot of young people on the margins who need the help and training only two-year colleges provide," he writes. He urges the governor and state Legislature to approve a 4 percent boost in funding requested by the Michigan Community College Association.