Posts by Bill Lyne

You have to look pretty long and hard to find something today that costs the same as it did twenty years ago. One of the prevailing myths about college is that its cost has skyrocketed over the years. Whenever a middlebrow rag like Time or U.S. News & World Report turns its attention to higher…

Here at the blog, we’re all about public service. So as ballots begin to arrive in mailboxes, we’re happy to tell people how to vote. There’s a lot of direct democracy happening this time, with a veritable cornucopia of initiatives on the ballot. The blog recommends: NO ON INTIATIVE 1053: Tim Eyman’s handlers have caught…

If Bill Gates Jr. hadn’t dropped out of Harvard, he might not be the richest person in the world, but he might have a better understanding of higher education. Froma Harrop, a syndicated columnist in the Seattle Times recently quoted Mr. Gates as saying that, “Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll…