Balancing the state’s budget in an era of substantial, structural revenue decline is difficult. The bottom line, is getting poorer is hard. You have to
Nice feature in Dome Magazine on the role Michigan foundations are playing in k-12 reform. In a period of big cutbacks in public funding, philanthropy
The folks who run the ACT college entrance exam have just released a troubling report on how well prepared America’s high school students are for
One final article on what we can learn about developing an economic growth strategy from California. John Judis wrote for the New Republic a more
Reading and writing about the future of California has me thinking about what really matters to their likely continuing role as an economic powerhouse. What
In my last post we explored how is it that Time magazine could do a cover story on California’s bright future economic prospects despite a
The Kauffman Foundation recently had a Wall Street Journal Editorial on Friday that indicated all net job creation in the US since 1980 occurred in
Time Magazine recently published a thought provoking cover story on California. Its worth reading, thinking about and debating. Because if its right – as I
Little noticed in yesterday’s election was the adoption, by a 55%-45% margin, of a $500 million fund to create more Tier One research universities in
A couple of recent news articles struck me as representing where the Michigan is now and how we might turn it around. The first is
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