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Communities Need to Build Better Millennial Connections
A remarkable, but mostly unnoticed, 2012 study found a powerful correlation between a community’s civic health and its economic well being. The analysis by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC)...
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The Real Winners Of The Global Economy: The Material Boys
Something strange happened on the road to our much-celebrated post-industrial utopia. The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the...
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New York City's Revival: The Post-Sandy Apple
Although its manufacturing jobs are gone forever, New York continues to ride the crests of its paper-profits prosperity. Housing in once-notorious slums now costs more than $1.5 million. The waterfront...
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New York Catholic Schools Take a Beating From Charters
In a heart-breaking scene in the 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, a young mother is crying in her Harlem apartment, which overlooks her daughter’s school. Bianca, her daughter, has been barred...
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Should California Governor Jerry Brown Take a Victory Lap?
"Memento Mori"– "Remember your mortality" – was whispered into the ears of Roman generals as they celebrated their great military triumphs. Someone should be whispering something similar in the ear of...
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The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as Creative as You Think
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower"–Steve JobsBehind every sociological movement is a psychology. The ever-growing creative classification of America is no different. The...
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Chicago: Outer Suburban and Exurban Growth Leader
Greg Hinz at Crain's Chicago Business congratulates Chicago for its nation-leading population growth. Heinz also notes that the far suburbs also gained population strongly, but there had been losses in...
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Wall Street's Hollow Boom: With Small Business And Startups Lagging, Job...
On Wall Street, even as layoffs mount, the upper echelons are clinking champagne glasses for good reason. The stock market is hitting new highs, propelled largely by Bernanke dollars and strong...
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The Value of a Liberal Arts Education in Landing a Job
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory made waves last week when he said on syndicated radio that he wants to encourage the funding of four-year programs that align with the job market — not those, like...
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Is Hawaii the Bellwether for California?
California used to consider itself the leading state and the bellwether for the entire country. Now that the entrepreneurial initiative has mostly switched to Texas and other such places, and Texas’s...
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California Needs More Immigrants
Southern California, just a few decades ago the fastest-growing region in the high-income world, is hitting a demographic tipping point. With a decade or more of domestic out-migration and a sharp fall...
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America's Fastest- and Slowest-Growing Cities
Since the housing crash of 2007, the decline of the Sun Belt and dispersed, low-density cities has been trumpeted by the national media and by pundits who believe America’s future lies in compact,...
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Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class
Among the most pervasive, and arguably pernicious, notions of the past decade has been that the “creative class” of the skilled, educated and hip would remake and revive American cities. The idea,...
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What Killed Downtown?
What Killed Downtown?: Norristown, Pennsylvania, from Main Street to the Malls by Michael E. TolleFor those of us who have grown dyspeptic on the over-indulged topic of the collapse of the American...
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California is in for a World of Hurt
California’s political class, led by Governor Brown, has been patting itself on the back for solving California’s problems. This celebration is ludicrous. What they’ve done amounts to a mere slowing...
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Commuting in Australia
Data from the 2011 censuses indicates that mass transit is gaining market share in all of but one of Australia's major metropolitan areas. The greatest increase as in Perth, at 21% , aided by the new...
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U.S. Could be Courting Trouble in Europe
One of the most fascinating aspects of Barack Obama's presidency stems not so much from his racial background, but his status as America's first clearly post-European, anti-colonialist leader. Yet,...
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Postmodernity: Will Another Bite from the Apple Help?
The visionary evangelical zeal of Steve Jobs lured me from my cozy philosophical pursuits at Barry University in south Florida to the frenetic gyrations of 1980s Silicon Valley. Jobs' incantations...
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Marissa Mayer's Misstep And The Unstoppable Rise Of Telecommuting
Marissa Mayer’s pronunciamento banning home-based work at Yahoo reflects a great dilemma facing companies and our country over the coming decade. Forget for a minute the amazing hubris of a rich,...
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Corporate Compensation: Will 'Say On Pay' Catch On?
Because so many chief executives of failed or mediocre companies have walked away with millions in bonuses and swag bags, both Switzerland and the European Union recently voted to put a cap on...
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