HOMEWORK FOR RITTER
“I’m going to challenge him to look at the hard stuff (such as) the limitations that union work rules put on change in public education.”
Hank Baker, senior vice president of marketing for Forest City Stapleton and chairman of the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition, on conversations he wants to have with Gov.-elect Bill Ritter. The coalition has complained that Colorado imports a highly educated workforce but doesn’t invest as much as it should in public education.
PARTING WORDS
“A set of social institutions that stresses individual responsibility, that treats the individual … as responsible for and to himself, will lead to a higher and more desirable moral climate.”
Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who doggedly championed individual freedom and free markets, in his essay “Is Capitalism Humane?” Friedman died Thursday at age 94.
