Gov. Rick Snyder has spared no effort in making Michigan “business-friendly,” but the message has been slow to spread. So Michigan cuts business taxes by $2.4 billion, stages a political war (because that’s apparently what’s been lacking) that favors business over labor, more than balances the state budget and finally takes ownership of arguably its […]
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education” — Henry B. Adams, 19th century American historian. *A last blast of summer: What do you get when you mix tubing, an invasive species, slow-motion photography and an aria?: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com /2012/09/mental-health-break-22.html * Michigan policy has been moving in a strong pro-cyberschool direction recently. Other […]
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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom” — Clifford Stoll, American author. * A study says the financial trends for public research universities – here that means U-M, MSU and Wayne State – are grim. ” Public research universities — particularly top-tier flagship institutions like the […]