A Closer Look at the Dashboard

January 19th, 2012 · No Comments

A baby born today will be an adult before there are as many people working as there were in 2000.

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Trapped from Moving Forward

March 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Trapped from Moving Forward by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service March 12, 2010 It is March, of course, but close enough to spring to quote T.S. Eliot, particularly when his lines have so much meaning: “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with [...]

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Desperate for Diversification

January 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Desperate for Diversification A brief history of Michigan’s economic development strategies by Rick Haglund January 16, 2010 Michigan was in big trouble as the decade of the 1980s dawned. Detroit’s automakers, collectively known then as the muscular Big Three, were beginning to see their dominance challenged by imports from upstart Japanese automakers. They were unprepared, [...]

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A Dickens of a Situation

December 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

A Dickens of a Situation by Stephen A. Jones January 1, 2010 As Detroiters consider the city’s prospects for 2010, they might do well to contemplate a passage from Charles Dickens, that great chronicler of gritty urban reality in 19th century England. One of Dickens’ most famous and oft-quoted lines comes at the opening of [...]

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs!

December 31st, 2009 · 8 Comments

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs! by Tom Watkins January 1, 2010 The year was 1981 and Congressman James J. Blanchard was fresh from helping rescue Chrysler Corporation by securing federal loans to keep the company’s doors open and save hundreds of thousands of good, high-paying, middle-class auto jobs. Jim Blanchard’s success in shepherding the [...]

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The Color of Jobs

October 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The Color of Jobs by Tom Shields October 16, 2009 If an award were given to the color of the decade, it would be green. Green is clean. Green is good. Both the Jolly Green Giant and Kermit the frog should get a Nobel Prize for truly being green. Where becoming more environmentally friendly was [...]

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