The world’s largest gathering of the biotechnology industry is taking place this week in Chicago.  It is called the Bio International Convention, Bio for short, with the tag line “The Global Event for Biotechnology.”  The event features nearly 2,000 exhibitors, more than 60 domestic and international pavilions, and attendance approaching 15,000.  If you are anyone [...]

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Two years ago Sunday, our daughter Emily died and her funeral was today on one of her favorite holidays, Cinco de Mayo.  It was also her first wedding anniversary (her husband, Jeremy Shrader, is in photograph). The world as we knew it changed that day, and we have to come to grips with the reality [...]

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As the Memphis & Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission discusses the ideal number of members that should sit on the legislative body of the proposed metropolitan government, I thought it would be interesting to study the size of city councils and county commissions around the country. In this post, I’ll focus on city councils [...]

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We don’t know if changes to the civil service system will be in the proposed charter of the Metro Charter Commission.  It’s too early to tell despite the kneejerk reactions of some union leaders who likely hadn’t even read the report when they excoriated it. All of this will sort itself out as the Charter [...]

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We received this email from Robert Bain: All to often, we hear someone invoke the “glass half full versus half empty” statement as a way of presumedly (or is it presumptuously) suggesting who is an optimist versus pessimist or more specifically who is positive versus negative. In fact there are so many devises in the [...]

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