The Great Lakes could reach record low water levels next year. With the state’s defining natural features dropping after a hot, dry summer, Bridge asked Alan Steinman, president of the Annis Water Resources Institute at Grand Valley State University and a leader on water issues in the Great Lakes region since moving here in 2001, […]
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“Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. * There’s less than a week until Election Day. And, yes, Michiganians, the ballot is a bit long. It would be wise for everyone to review the sample ballot — and publius.org offers a […]
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“I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way” – Franklin P. Adams, radio commentator. * A new report from the Michigan Agri-Business Association talks up the potential of agriculture’s prospects in Northern Michigan – and offers at least one very […]
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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” — St. Augustine (Born 354, died 430). * Is this good or is this bad? The House Fiscal Agency found that since the state has scaled back on money for “secondary road patrol” the number of traffic tickets has dropped, but […]
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“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged” — Russell Simmons, American music entrepreneur and philanthropist. * This New Yorker piece lays out a case for having national chains take over American health care, thereby ensuring consistent quality. Marianne Udow-Phillips of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation in Ann Arbor wrote in Bridge recently […]
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“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own” — Samuel Smiles, 19th century British author. * Education Trust-Midwest advises that parents in many Michigan communities are going to be surprised, and dismayed, at new calculations on how their children’s schools are performing: http://www.edtrust.org/midwest/press-room/press-release/achievement-gaps-lurk-within-some-elite-michigan-schools-state-repo * Ohio has a school of choice […]
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“We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge” — pioneering TV workout guru Jack LaLanne. * This list has a bunch of conventional-myth-challenging stuff, but let’s focus on No. 5 — police car chases aren’t great at keeping […]
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“Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial” — Sophocles, ancient Greek playwright. * The Michigan Legislature considered a move into the private prison business this spring, with a proposal to shift prisoners from a state facility in Ionia to one in Baldwin owned by GEO […]
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“They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money” — Lord Byron, 19th century English poet. * The first charter-school program got legislative authorization in Minnesota 20 years ago. Its author writes in Education Week to dispel myths about the formative years of […]
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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not” — Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist. * Ice in winter has positive effects, too: http://greatlakesecho.org/2012/05/15/continued-ice-loss-on-the-great-lakes-may-cause-widespread-change-in-ecosystems/ * It was suggested, in comments to […]
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