
What I want from my daughter’s school
My older daughter just started preschool. I’ll tell you what I was looking for in a school—for this year and Kindergarten, and probably at least

Michigan charter schools: Ensuring success or replicating failure?
A couple weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of Education John King paid a visit to Detroit, during which time he offered some advice to Michigan education

Talent, not low taxes, delivers prosperity
Terrific Inc. column by University of Michigan Ross Business School professor Jeff DeGraff entitled It’s the Talent Stupid. DeGraff makes the case that low tax states

Cars as a service
One of the new realities is that we are now a service-providing rather than a goods-producing dominant economy. And that high-paying work is now knowledge-based

A Tale of Two Cities’ Transit: What Detroit can learn from Denver
A recent Politico article by Colin Woodard that describes how a first-rate transportation system has completely transformed metropolitan Denver has left me with a serious

Can Michigan get corrections reform right?
In the future, the majority of jobs in the U.S. will not be high paid. Gone are the days when you could earn a family-supporting