Anonymous's blog The Great American Debate these days centers on what's happened to our economy and the middle class it once supported. This debate has so many moving parts-- inequality, offshoring and reshoring, big government vs. little govern ...
Anonymous's blog For years now, the question has been: What in the world do you do with Detroit? Or: Does Detroit have a future? Or put it another way: Should Detroit have a future, or should this poor, empty, echoing, poverty-stricken, job-bereft sh ...
Anonymous's blog A Midwestern public radio reporter phoned the other day with a really good question. Why do small towns and rural areas matter? she asked. Everybody talks about scarce federal and state resources. So are small towns and rural areas i ...
Anonymous's blog Next Generation Delegation 2014 Commentary Series By Adam Riesselman, PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics at Harvard University and 2014 Next Generation Delegate As a bioinformaticist, I like to think that biolog ...
On June 17, 2014, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report from its Emerging Leaders Class of 2014 on the power of big data to improve the lives of Chicagoans and residents of other global cities. Using Chicago as a model, the report outlin ...
Anonymous's blog This post by senior fellow Roger Thurow originally appeared on the Outrage and Inspire blog. Vegetables grow in the shadow of the city’s iconic skyline at Chicago Lights Urban Farm, where hoop dreams have given way to hoop houses. C ...
Anonymous's blog Norman Borlaug now stands in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol, a man still at work. He stands in a stylized field of wheat, hat on his head, sleeves rolled up, notebook in his hand, a researcher for the ages. “The Father of the Green ...
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Midwest Initiative has released a Global Midwest Policy Brief titled “High-Speed Rail for the Midwest.” Richard Harnish, executive director of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association and author of the Policy Br ...
The Midwest can foster regional economic growth by capitalizing on its vast freshwater resources, argues Sammis B. White, in The Midwest’s Liquid Gold, the fifth Global Midwest Policy Brief published by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. White, a profe ...
On March 9, 2010, The Chicago Council released a Global Midwest Policy Brief titled A Venture Capital Strategy for the Great Lake s. Author of the brief, Frank E. Samuel, Jr. recommends the Great Lakes region convert its research prowess and human capital ...
