Data stories

I came to Detroit in 1975 to take on my first full-time job in the Census Bureau's Detroit Regional Office.  While I had worked a variety of jobs throughout an extended college and graduate school "career," I realized that once I had burned out (by choice) on my...

An analysis of newly-released Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows teen unemployment averaging above 25 percent in 25 states as of April 2011.  When the analysis is broadened to include discouraged teens that have given up looking for...

Allow me to  quote from the June 12, 2011 column by Stephen Henderson, Editorial Page Editor for the Free Press: "Who will represent you in Congress, and in the state House and Senate, over the next decade? That's none of your business. For now, at least. Committees...

No blog about marriage can feature a more charismatic illustration that the newly married royals - unless it was that image of two young hippy-looking folks named Jody and Kurt, standing in front of the Cincinnati Zoo gorillas some 33 years ago. [that image is only...

Last night I attended the second performance of Northern Lights - an original play, performed by the Mosaic Youth Theater, that tells the story, in words and music (featuring hits from a variety of Motown stars, the Rolling Stones, and the Who), of the historic...