The following piece was co-authored by R Street State Projects Director Cameron Smith.   As summer draws to a close, millions of parents will drop their children off at schools that bear little resemblance to the ones the parents attended in their youths. From technology in the classroom to teaching methods and even to […]

Toto guitarist Steve Lukather with an Adamas model Ovation acoustic guitar. Photo by Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons HARTFORD, CT – Ovation Guitars will once again be made in the United States following its purchase earlier this year by Oxnard, CA-based Drum Workshop. Production is expected to start up this month, following the […]

Even before Aug. 11, China was threatening to snatch market share from other Asian competitors in the key U.S. and European export markets. Then the outlook for China’s Asian competitors worsened as the shock yuan devaluation loosened a dollar link that had kept the unit strong even while the currencies of most Asian competitors had […]

Companies like Graphic Packaging have real labor needs and plenty of applicants, but, like so many other companies across the region, they struggle to attract and retain the level of labor quality they need. They need workers with the skills to run a multimillion-dollar printer operating system 24 hours a day. Those include mechanical aptitude, […]