The business of education and other lies

April 2, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s axiomatic today that organizations are best run like a business. In reality, however, it’s because we’ve been running everything like a business that our civilization now faces a multitude of systemic, possibly fatal problems. Among these is the decline in the quality of education.   Last week, I wrote about the compensation gap that […]

Guest writer Robbin Anthony on DST

November 6, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes DST – (Sounds like it’s spelled.)   As the golden days of summer fade into memory, we once again are faced with the task of adjusting our clocks to reflect the inevitable fall into fall. Though last week was mostly sunny, and it had been long enough since we sprang forward into spring that I […]