I went to college at a place that bills itself as "A Technological University", so lots of my friends from those days are engineers and the like: people with a higher-than-average propensity to build stuff ( Read more... )

PBS' NewsHour just did a story about the rustbelt / factory closings in Milwaukee / Bucyrus-Erie welders / training inner-city high school kids in the manufacturing trades (which in passing, raised the question: heck - will there even BE American jobs for welders ( Read more... )