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14 Ways to Create Jobs in this Economy

Few Presidents have been able to create jobs like Bill Clinton did during his eight years in office.  In Newsweek (it still exists?) he outlines 14 ideas for creating more jobs. 2. CASH FOR STARTUPS If you start a business tomorrow, I can give you all the tax credits in the world, but since you [...]

The future of Detroit

City Journal has a good article on the problems and future of Detroit. The new mayor’s boldest argument may be that Detroit needs to shrink to revive. Detroit has contracted from 2 million residents to about 900,000; whole areas of the city have virtually emptied. As many as 70,000 homes stand abandoned. On some blocks, [...]

Flint, Michigan

The other day I took a shot at Flint, Michigan in a blog post and the next day I got a friendly comment from someone who works for Flint Tourism pointing out that I may have over looked some of Flint’s characteristics.  Now I wasn’t really trying to be mean to Flint, I was just [...]