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Report says Michigan lags in creating high-wage jobs
Our best guess is that unless we substantially increase the proportion of college-educated adults, particularly in our biggest metropolitan areas, Michigan will continue to trend downward in the per capita income rankings," the study said. The one bit of good news in the report is that Michigan gained 47,000 high-education, high-wage jobs in health care and education between 2000 and 2006. About 40,000 of those jobs were added in Grand Rapids and Detroit. Traditional economic development efforts are centered on using government financial incentives or cutting taxes to attract businesses and industries that will provide jobs for current residents. But Glazer said governments can't accurately predict which industries will produce future job growth.
Indoor golf facility puts the swing back into winter
It's just a wedge shot across the Ohio River from Coraopolis, a narrow parcel littered with industrial plants, weathered warehouses and what is billed as the most spacious indoor golf dome in the country. Make no mistake, Neville Island has never been confused with a winter getaway destination. But if you're looking to hit golf balls and get your swing in shape while snow and ice blanket the region's golf courses, the golf dome at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center is the place to be. And you don't even have to wear gloves, turtlenecks or wind shirts in the climate-controlled dome. It's a balmy 70 degrees every day, making it a must-stop destination for Ronca and a host of other cooped-up golfers in Western Pennsylvania. "When I go down there, I always see a lot of other people," said Ronca, 52, a Baden resident who plays mainly at public courses and considers himself a low- to mid-80s player.
Brian Roberts could put Cubs over the top
One of them is one of the all-time great liars. Baseball spring training camps open this month and some big-name free agents are jobless and might have to swallow some pride to prolong their careers and sign for much less than they're accustomed to. They include Barry Bonds, Armando Benitez, Mike Piazza, Kenny Lofton, Shannon Stewart, Livan Hernandez, Sammy Sosa, Bartolo Colon, Shawn Green, Corey Patterson and Tony Clark. If they can't find jobs, Bonds, Sosa, perhaps Clemens and Piazza all would be on the 2013 Hall of Fame ballot. It would be a very impressive group if they all were "clean." But Piazza is the only one who hasn't been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.
Billionaire Rochester sportsman Tom Golisano over the weekend reiterated that he's prepared to do what he can to keep the Buffalo Bills in western New York.
Editorial: ‘Gifted’ funds lost in space
Since 1995 as I have a memorandumm dated that far back, this district never intended to nor will it ever be truthful about funding and services. The memorandum clearly stated that a program for gifted will be set in place in the district. As of yet I see no concentrated effort to do so or do I see any Board member challenging the lack thereof. You cannot follow the money here. Everthing is posted per line item.but where it goes only the staff knows. Now you all know you have been lied to repeatedly and the only thing they have done was created a bigger,bloated bureaucracy by hiring all those gifted coordinators to appease the parents. So now they will tell you there is no money left. More lies. They are trying to force gifted into the defunct I B program or the AP program. If gifted were that simple there would not be a separate funding for them.
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