Organizations & Policy

I recently came across a news article on how Fort Dodge, Iowa, population 27,000, has decided to dive into lean government.  There were a lot of good…

Over the past several years we've been pounding on Detroit for building absurd amounts of excess capacity, often in response to how a "sale&q…

Every time I turn on the news these days I seem to hear about some new request, or outright appointment, of a "czar" of something or another…

Obama says he's going to scrutinize the federal budget line by line.  Good luck with that.  Although I applaud his desire to cut wasteful spending…

Few people disagree that the U.S. tax code needs to change.  Currently there are tens of thousands of pages of laws and procedures and regulations, gr…

"Bureaucracy" and "opportunity"... normally those aren't symbiotic terms unless you're a glutton for punishment, but in to…

Earlier this year we were all up in arms about lead contamination in toys and other children's products coming from China.  Time for more regulati…

You got to love when a complex industry is forced to become even more complex. Government regulators are expected soon to overhaul the aging coding s…