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July 2013

July 30, 2013
So I've been reading What to Expect When No One's Expecting:  America's Coming Demographic Disaster,...
July 29, 2013
That's the claim of the new book by Helen Smith. I have in mind to...
July 28, 2013
Detroit has a long history of Big Projects motivated by the hope that, this time,...
July 27, 2013
Start with Fresh Medicine by Philip Bredesen.  (It's even a bargain book at Amazon.com and...
July 27, 2013
Is College Worth It?  That's the lead article in this summer's Notre Dame Magazine.  Not...
July 27, 2013
"It has taken more than a half-century for Detroit to fall this low, and the...
July 26, 2013
This is awful.  Really, really shows that the Powers that Be in Detroit still don't...
July 26, 2013
Healthcare in the United States is a complex issue, but there are, ultimately, two categories...
July 25, 2013
What do I think of Catastrophic/high deductible plans?They have their plusses and minuses.  My employer...
July 25, 2013
So it seems that Congress is considering tax reform again.  The last time this was...
July 24, 2013
Have you ever looked at the definition of a food desert?  The USDA tool has changed...
July 24, 2013
OK, so I've gotten some pushback from my modest number of readers (small gripe about...
July 23, 2013
This is, in broad outlines, the content of a recent unpublished letter to the editor,...
July 22, 2013
OK, so I said in my last post that "the State has the ultimate responsibility...
July 22, 2013
So what I really wanted to do with this blog is, in part at least, to...
July 21, 2013
One thing that’s happening here, in the emerging narrative of Martin perceiving himself as being...
July 20, 2013
Remember how the backruptcy judge split General Motors into two:  Old GM, with all the...
July 20, 2013
1)  log onto www.realtor.com.2)  look at all listings for Detroit, and play with the slider...
July 19, 2013
I was all set to work on my the things I want to write about...
July 19, 2013
What a mess!In the private sector, employers cannot cut back accrued pension benefits (though they...
July 19, 2013
So Ann Althouse is talking clotheslines now.I remember clotheslines, and I'm not that old.  Mom...
July 19, 2013
No, I don't have a link.  It's in the papers.  The biggest unknown is what...
July 18, 2013
in which marital status is a factor in determining benefits, rights, and privileges." Turns out...
July 18, 2013
I’m still just playing around with ideas, in an abstract sort of way.  I think...
July 17, 2013
So here goes:This will probably be a multi-post "series" and I try to work this...
July 17, 2013
Thanks, Ann, for the mention (quoting from an e-mail I sent over to her)!  --...
July 16, 2013
Of course, other countries have significantly higher minimum wages, and it would be interesting to...
July 16, 2013
I'd seen the map of where in the country people say pop/soda/coke before, but not...
July 16, 2013
So a friend of mine linked, on facebook, to this page, McDonald's suggested budget shows...
July 16, 2013
Ann Althouse has a conversation -- or tries to, at least.  But it's rather difficult...
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