MLive.com/with poll: Rick Snyder: 1st year as Michigan's governor was 'foundation year'

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is looking back on his first year in office as a "foundation year," he said in a recent interview on MLive.com.

The reason, according to the report: "Sweeping changes to tax codes were set in place to spur job creation as parts of a wide-ranging plan to pull the state from its economic doldrums."

Ryan Stanton | AnnArbor.com

In the interview with reporter Dave Murray, Snyder went on to say that change makes people uncomfortable.

He continued: “But I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t agree with everything you are doing, but I appreciate that you’re changing things.’ And we haven’t seen the protests outside my window for a long time.”

Read the full interview, including a list of 11 significant developments from his office in 2011.