The web site of the organization sponsoring the porposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution is EducateOhio.com

        What do an historical society, natural history museum and botanical garden have in common?  What outcomes might arise as a result of a collaboration between three seemingly disparate organizations?  The significance of Bruce Latimer's disclosure before half-a-hundred people gathered for Wednesday's Commmunity of Minds program on the Case Campus has as much to do with process and outcomes as anything that University Circle institutions have attempted before.

They graduate four times as many engineers as we do.

They lavish generous tax breaks on tech firms.

They support local manufacturers.

They don't respect intellectual property.

They, of course, refers to China. And the gripes from Silicon Valley business leaders capture in stark and accurate terms the key underpinnings of the growing tech rivalry between the United States and China.

From pundits to populace, everybody seems to agree that Northeast Ohio needs to step out in a new direction, using the creative arts to drive a new economic resurgence. So why are we talking about the same old models of massive public construction, like a convention center, to bring about this new economy?