Stuck in the past

My biggest concern for the state and its regions––particularly metro Detroit--is that we have a vision of what we want the future to look like and a public policy agenda, from across the political spectrum, that are grounded in the…

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Lessons from Chicago

Harvard's Edward Glaeser is becoming my new favorite columnist. He is a regular contributor to the Economix blog at the New York Times. He recently wrote about Mayor Daley's legacy. As he writes Mayor Daley took over a declining Chicago.…

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Why Young Talent?

There are many who question why it is that folks like us place such a high priority on retaining and attracting recent college graduates. Why pick one demographic group over the others? Aren't they all important? No one asked that…

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