Thomas Sugrue is the author of the must-read "The Origins of the Urban Crisis", a history of the deindustrialization of Detroit. He was a keynote speaker at the last Detroit Regional Chamber's Detroit Policy Conference. Prior to the speech he…
Amazing new data from the Census Bureau. 2011 is the first year in a century that central cities grew more than their suburbs. (See this MSNBC story for details.) Talk about a seismic change. Cities showing higher population gains compared…
For decades we have been told by much of the organized business community and conservative policy makers and pundits that Michigan needs to move in the direction of the low tax/small government/right to work South to be economically successful. Which,…