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Author Archives: Phil PowerReform: The New Work WeekJune 20, 2008 – 10:28 am
Gas is, as I write this, $4.19 at my neighborhood station, and they've dropped the $50 credit card limit on the pump. The Hope Factor in MichiganJune 12, 2008 – 9:05 am
With spooky coincidence, last week marked both the 40th anniversary of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination -- and the winning by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of the prize RFK had sought. A Sad Display on the IslandJune 6, 2008 – 11:10 am
MACKINAC ISLAND -- If you've never attended the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce's annual policy conference on Mackinac Island, know that the first -- and overwhelming -- impression is the amazing crush of people. Tax Brinksmanship Hurts BusinessMay 15, 2008 – 11:28 am
You might say the new Michigan Business Tax was born under a cloud and with an unnecessary "birth defect" that now has the state's business community up in arms. So how did we get here? MI's New Info Assembly LineApril 24, 2008 – 5:31 pm
Just off the Walter Reuther expressway in Pleasant Ridge, a tidy little suburb near the Detroit Zoo, Michigan's rust belt past sits cheek by jowl with the beginnings of our knowledge economy future. The Dillon Recall CharadeApril 17, 2008 – 1:53 pm
Think Michigan legislative politics are all sweetness and light these days, following last year’s partisan bruising budget wars? When MI was Silicon ValleyApril 11, 2008 – 12:49 pm
Michigan sometimes can seem like a place stuck in time, caught between a past that relied on cutting giant white pines and digging copper out of the Upper Peninsula mines, and a future that seems tied to an endlessly shrinking or "restructuring" automobile industry. A Bright Light in FlintApril 4, 2008 – 11:43 am
Every dark cloud has a silver lining -- or so we need to hope. One thing we know is that we’ve got so many dark clouds these days in Michigan, that it is vitally important to seek out any silver linings which might help balance out the gloom and doom. Keeping Score on Michigan PrisonsMarch 28, 2008 – 10:58 am
IBM's axiom is old, but it still makes sense: "You cannot manage what you do not measure." College-educated autoworkersMarch 19, 2008 – 3:32 pm
One of Michigan's major handicaps has been the profound ignorance most families have about the vital importance of higher education to their children‘s future. |
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