by d3wpadmin | Feb 15, 2012 | Kurt Metzger
I read an article the other day that made me think of the Woody Allen movie Sleeper. In the movie, Woody has been cryogenically frozen and is thawed out many years later. Among the many consequences of this time warp is that he discovers scientists have changed...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 13, 2012 | Kurt Metzger
I realize that a vast majority of the public no longer gets the Sunday paper – either delivered, from the store or from a newspaper box. I also realize that many pull their news from the web and, while they are able to consume a vast variety of headlines and...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 10, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Louis Bach, Macomb County
Next time you’re near a newsstand, be sure to check out Macomb NOW Magazine’s article “The Land of Opportunity: The ‘New’ Macomb County”: In 2011, the Detroit metropolitan economic and political leadership “discovered” Macomb County. At a political event held last...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 6, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Migration, youth
Check out D3 Director Kurt Metzger’s analysis of Michigan’s youth attraction and retention in Bridge Magazine: More than three quarters (76.2 percent) of Michigan’s contingent was born in Michigan. While we can assume that some of them spent some time away from the...
by d3wpadmin | Feb 4, 2012 | Kurt Metzger
Making it through another birthday last Sunday made my thoughts go once again to the “Big R” – Retirement. While I can’t see myself giving up the “data business” entirely, nor divorcing myself from Data Driven Detroit, I do find the...
by d3wpadmin | Jan 31, 2012 | Kurt Metzger, Louis Bach, Migration
If you enjoyed Rob’s analysis of Michigan moving data, be sure to check out Kurt’s article on that data in Bridge Magazine. Kurt fact-checks statements that Governor Snyder made during his 2012 State of the State Address. Snyder claimed that Michigan’s net migration...
