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July 2013

July 28, 2013

Big Projects in Detroit? Again?!

Detroit has a long history of Big Projects motivated by the hope that, this time,...

July 27, 2013

Healthcare: Recommended Reading

Start with Fresh Medicine by Philip Bredesen. (It's even a bargain book at Amazon.com and...

July 27, 2013

Is College Worth it? Ask the wrong question, get the wrong answer

Is College Worth It? That's the lead article in this summer's Notre Dame Magazine. Not...

July 27, 2013

Detroit: no quick fixes

"It has taken more than a half-century for Detroit to fall this low, and the...

July 26, 2013

Don’t do it, Detroit!

This is awful. Really, really shows that the Powers that Be in Detroit still don't...

July 26, 2013

Healthcare again: overall cost and individual cost as two separate problems

Healthcare in the United States is a complex issue, but there are, ultimately, two categories...

July 25, 2013

Catastrophic health care plans?

What do I think of Catastrophic/high deductible plans?They have their plusses and minuses. My employer...

July 25, 2013

Tax reform: one small proposal

So it seems that Congress is considering tax reform again. The last time this was...

July 24, 2013

Let’s talk about food deserts!

Have you ever looked at the definition of a food desert? The USDA tool has changed...

July 24, 2013

More on healthcare — “Medicaid for all”?

OK, so I've gotten some pushback from my modest number of readers (small gripe about...

July 23, 2013

Illinois’ Pension Mess! — (in the “if I were czar” series)

This is, in broad outlines, the content of a recent unpublished letter to the editor,...

July 22, 2013

Healthcare as the responsibility of the State?

OK, so I said in my last post that "the State has the ultimate responsibility...

July 22, 2013

Healthcare: not a “right” but. . . (part one)

So what I really wanted to do with this blog is, in part at least, to...

July 21, 2013

The soft bigotry of low expectations, Trayvon Martin edition

One thing that’s happening here, in the emerging narrative of Martin perceiving himself as being...

July 20, 2013

How I’d fix Detroit (in the continuing “if I were czar” series)

Remember how the backruptcy judge split General Motors into two: Old GM, with all the...

July 20, 2013

Easy way to understand that Chicago is not Detroit

1) log onto www.realtor.com.2) look at all listings for Detroit, and play with the slider...

July 19, 2013

Enough of the schadenfreude! (more on Detroit)

I was all set to work on my the things I want to write about...

July 19, 2013

“Michigan AG challenges judge’s ruling that Detroit bankruptcy is unconstitutional”

What a mess!In the private sector, employers cannot cut back accrued pension benefits (though they...

July 19, 2013

Are clotheslines hip?

So Ann Althouse is talking clotheslines now.I remember clotheslines, and I'm not that old. Mom...

July 19, 2013

In the news today: Detroit declares bankruptcy

No, I don't have a link. It's in the papers. The biggest unknown is what...

July 18, 2013

There are “1,138 statutory provisions

in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges." Turns out...

July 18, 2013

What exactly does marriage mean in 2013 anyway?

I’m still just playing around with ideas, in an abstract sort of way. I think...

July 17, 2013

The obligatory post on gay marriage

So here goes:This will probably be a multi-post "series" and I try to work this...

July 17, 2013

Why blog?

Thanks, Ann, for the mention (quoting from an e-mail I sent over to her)! --...

July 16, 2013