Perspectives of a Lifelong Learner
If I really think about Zuckerberg, his politics, the false pretense of privacy and the selling of my personal information to the highest bidder then yes, I hate it. Just knowing these things alone, isn’t that reason enough to just close the account? On the surface, one would think. But every time I am about... Continue Reading →
Come September '64, last year's seniors were nowhere to be found. The standouts, the BMOC’s, the multi-sport four-year varsity lettermen, were gone. So was their cheerleading entourage. Most had beat it out of town three months earlier. Some stayed and even got married. In that year and across the country, they and their 2,145,000 counterparts... Continue Reading →
This site is a reflection of our contemporary and historical selfs. It is a compilation of snap shots of our cultural identity, our political, economic social, and physical enviornments. In part using my own travels as examples, this page points to the underlying importance of the lost art of civic responsibility and compromise, of maturing... Continue Reading →
THE BEFORE YEARS - PART I Some say '63, '64 or even '65. Others think '68. For me, it was '67, the end of adolescence. Commencement was over and we had said our goodbyes. Yearbooks sported both the sincere and the trite, those embarrassing scribbles scanned but not read. Back home, we searched the pages,... Continue Reading →
What a week some ten years ago--The Weather Channel might have described it as the confluence of convergent and divergent air flows, in this case probably hot air colliding. Even with the diligent effort of a more than capable Administrative Assistant, my schedule was put to the test. In one week I had to be... Continue Reading →
Aida and her husband Craig are friends of mine. I miss their company when I am away from Chicago. https://medium.com/@aidajohnsonrapp/thoughts-on-race-and-destruction-3165cda8f43c https://medium.com/@aidajohnsonrapp/thoughts-on-race-and-destruction-3165cda8f43c
Time flies when you're having fun--I was Chairman of this 800 member professional membership organization 30 years ago. A lot of good people doing really good things. I snuck in thinking no one would notice. CALED’s 40 years of economic development leadership is inextricably linked to and made possible by the contributions of many individuals... Continue Reading →
We need to talk. No, really, we need to talk! I don’t know about you, but anytime I heard this I thought I was probably in trouble. Well, I AM in trouble. So are you. So are we all. Up one side and down the other “Ya Got Trouble,” and it stands for “T” that... Continue Reading →
A TEN-POINT ACTION PLAN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS (OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS) By Richard Florida and Steven Pedigo "Even as cities focus on a full-out mobilization of required health and medical resources to cope with the first phase of this pandemic, it is important that economic developers mobilize all available resources to get their communities ready... Continue Reading →
Nothing like trying to finish a traditional in-class course with a modified on-line presentation. I'm just dusting off those old distance learning skill sets I acquired at Northwestern University. Of the nearly 60 courses I've taught, a dozen of them were on-line. It will mean the 86 students that are currently enrolled in this course... Continue Reading →
The Scholarly Participant 
You must be logged in to post a comment.