Fall Semester 2006

September 1, 2006 – The First Year of the Roberts Court

September 8, 2006 – What U.S.  Leadership in Engineering Could Mean With the Rise of India and China

September 15, 2006 – The Statewide Elections in Ohio

September 22, 2006 – The Interim Period: Tasks for Today and Ideas for the Future

September 29, 2006 – Eminent Domain: State Legislatie Responses to Kelo vs. New London: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

October 6, 2006 – The Case for Issue 2: Raising the Ohio Minimum Wage from $5.15 Per Hour, to $6.85 Per Hour

October 20, 2006 – Cuyahoga County Port Authorities Role in Regional Economic Development

October 27, 2006 – Current Issues Confronting the Middle East

November 3, 2006 – The 2006 Midterm Election Forecast

November 10, 2006 – Concerns About Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research

November 17, 2006 – Class Bias in Who Gets to Vote

December 1, 2006 – National Health Insurance

December 9, 2006 – New Demands and Expectations on Medical Education

Spring Semester 2006

January 27, 2006 – Iraq and Vietnam: Some Questions

February 3, 2006 – Medical Markets and Health Savings Accounts

February 10, 2006 – The Law and Animal Rights

February 17, 2006 – Seeds of Democracy in China? Developments in Local Government

February 24, 2006 – The History of Case Western Reserve University University

March 3, 2006 – Turkey: Informal Observation on Education, Society, Politics, and the Price of Yakut

March 10, 2006 – Bird Flu

March 24, 2006 – Robots and Emotions

March 31, 2006 – Sticks, Stones, and Domain Names: The Policy Stakes in Who Controls Internet Addresses

April 7, 2006 – The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Disposal Controversy

April 14, 2006 – How Environmental Regulation Fragment Gasoline Markets

April 21, 2006 – Downsizing and Disability

April 28, 2006 – Lawn-O-Rama: Coming to Terms With an American Obsession