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September 2014

September 04, 2014

From today’s Tribune: “U. of I. considers boost to financial aid”

. . . because enrollment is down, or, at least, enrollment of Illinois freshmen is...

September 02, 2014

Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of Choice and Charter Schools

So while at my folks' last weekend (is it a regionalism of some kind to...

September 02, 2014

Is the $15 minimum wage just for fast food workers?

Let's start with the fact that I find the idea of a $15 minimum wage...

September 01, 2014

Wind of Change

Where were you when the Wall fell? People a generation older than I am will...

September 01, 2014

Back from “Detroit”*, part 2: on Michiganders

The asterisk above is because, of course, I wasn't actually in Detroit. Don't be silly....

September 01, 2014

Back from “Detroit”, part 1: update on Dad

So we were at mom and dad's over Labor Day weekend, and I thought I'd...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Microhouse bait-and-switch

So a facebook friend shared an article about a plan to build microhouses for the...

August 27, 2014

80% of Turks in Germany are on welfare

That's the statistic cited in a post on a blog called "Muslim Statistics" which I...

August 27, 2014

The real estate market — what exactly is happening?

I've been updating you on my parents periodically (another update coming soon), and we've been...

August 26, 2014

The Lost E-mails aren’t Lost After All?

As my regular readers know, I am not the source for up-to-the-minute news, and don't...

August 25, 2014

Apparently, we need more Greek immigrants

Around us, there are fast food restaurant chains, and then there are the local family-owned...

August 25, 2014

Apparently, we need more Greek immigrants

Around us, there are fast food restaurant chains, and then there are the local family-owned...

August 24, 2014

Econ 101, anyone?

First of all, let me say that I hope everyone's having a great vacation --...

August 22, 2014

Calling all “popcorn sale” experts!

That's my new job -- managing the Cub Scout popcorn sale for my son's Cub...

August 21, 2014

Did Obama end the war in Iraq?

Don't be absurd.Either one of two situations was the case when Obama began the troop...

August 20, 2014

Obama and the “arc of history”

A couple weeks ago, Charles Krauthammer wrote a column entitled "The Vacant Presidency" the gist...

August 20, 2014

Parking a link: “Divergent bodies”

OK, just for fun: here's a link to a blog post that an old friend...

August 19, 2014

Shock poll on the minimum wage

A while back, I wrote about the proposal by the progressive caucus of Chicago aldermen...

August 17, 2014

From the library: The Birth of Korean Cool, by Euny Hong

Over the last couple days I've been reading two books: the first, about pensions and...

August 15, 2014

Avikcare: my evaluation

Yesterday I wrote up a summary of Avik Roy's proposal to reform the exchanges but...

August 14, 2014

Your Cliff Notes guide to Avikcare

So Avik Roy, blogger at Forbes and, apparently, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for...

August 13, 2014

What’s the backround on the Ferguson police shooting?

We've read that a part of the tensions surrounding the police shooting in Ferguson, MO...

August 12, 2014

The obligatory, but short post on Robin Williams

Articles about Robin Williams are everywhere, on blogs, news sites, and my Facebook feed. They...

August 11, 2014

This *wasn’t* a parody?

The other day, I saw references to an article asking for free tampons. I figured...

August 07, 2014

Yes, Detroit once had commuter rail (with pictures!)

So, in lighter news (that is, as a break from ISIS, Gaza, Ukraine, the US

August 06, 2014

Beancounting

So my hostile open-borders commenter is back, eager to jump into my comments about the...

August 06, 2014

Who remembers this? (update)

Source: , as Michiganders of a certain age will recognize, is an Oasis at a...

August 05, 2014

Has the University of Illinois gone too far?

In recruiting undergraduate students from China to pay the bills, that is?A while back, I...

August 03, 2014

Back from “vacation,” part 3: on the cost of college

My husband and I met at the University of Notre Dame, and a couple years...

August 03, 2014

Back from “vacation,” part 2: Detroit, the suburbs, and gentrification

After our visit to Detroit back in March, I was able to offer some comments...