Governor Granholm and the lame duck legislature in December enacted an important change in Michigan transportation policy. They are to be commended. The new policy,
Important and unexpected article from Crain’s Detroit Business on Michigan’s shortage of automotive engineers. That’s right, shortage! Conventional wisdom is that we have a big competitive
Terrific blog by Harvard’s Edward Glaeser in the NY Times on the power of education attainment for regional economies. Worth reading! He finds that today
We have been writing for years about two dominant trends in the economy. The first – and the most important – is that the knowledge-based
Governor-elect Snyder was right on when he wrote in his ten point plan that “many of Michigan’s youth are looking for an appealing metropolitan community
In each of our annual progress reports Don Grimes and I have predicted that Michigan’s per capita income would fall to the mid thirties because
Important Nathan Bomey article on AnnArbor.com. It’s entitled “University of Michigan microcontroller startup leaving Michigan for Texas”. The reason: not enough talent here. That’s right,
As I wrote in my previous posts about the upcoming elections, at the core of our work is the belief that globalization and technology are
A terrific editorial from Nolan Finley in the Sunday Detroit News. Entitled “The reason why we’re poorer”, Finley lays out, as well as we ever
Every time the state gets into financial difficulty there are calls for some kind of centralization of the state’s higher education system. Led by the
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