Two excellent opinion pieces this week from the Grand Rapids Press. One on college attainment being the key to economic growth, the other on low
A recent David Brooks column in the New York Times lays out an innovation agenda. Its worth reading. Its based on a report from President
I had a chance a few weeks ago to lay out for the State Board of Education how I would deal with the state’s long
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
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
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
So if the prestigious Milliken/Blanchard panel laid out a framework for state policy makers on tax and spending policies that will help grow the Michigan
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