The Semi-Retired Blog
Many blogs are started with one entry, and then languish. Others, like this one, live for several years.

I've put the Policy Guy blog on a semi-retired status a while ago. I had planned to stop writing here altogether. Then I used it as the outlet for stuff to write on a once-in-a-while basis. My goal became to add one or two items a month.

Recently, though, I've lost the interest and the energy to do even that. Other duties and opportunities call. They include but are not limited to the following:

State House Call is a blog dedicated to health care policy, with a focus on state government policy. In an age when workers, business owners, union bosses and fans of the public sector agree that we need to federalize health care, State House Call takes a different approach. It points out the problems with bureaucratic control of health care (public and private) and lays out how patient-centered care works. A wise man once told me that it's impossible to say anything intelligent about health care in fewer than 1,000 words, but we try anyway, reporting in posts that range from 50 to 800 words.

The Capitol Report, of the Saint Paul Legal Ledger is a leading specialized publication in Minnesota. I write a twice-a-month column devoted to public policy. It is usually through not always about government at the state or local level, and it often discusses a new report about a public issue. You can read my back columns from this paper, as well as stuff I have written for other groups and publications, in the publications archives of the Policy Guy site.

The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy does some good work in Kansas. I write about education policy for them.

I take a more explicitly political spin on the Detroit News politics blog.

If you use Twitter, you can follow my Twitter feed.

Grays on Trays is my online publication about snowboarding. I update the blog more frequently than any other part of the site.

In addition to writing, I manage to squeeze in some editing from time to time. If you'd like me to do some editing of an op-ed, white paper or other product, drop me a line. (permalink)