A Place I’ll Remember Turns Five
A Place I'll Remember This month marks five years since I began the monthly A Place I’ll Remember posts. My goal continues to be to highlight the people and places who try something just a little unique to address an issue that’s not very...
A Place I’ll Remember – July 2024
A Place I'll Remember Back to childcare initiatives, this time wage subsidies to attract and retain the workforce. King County, Washington has an umbrella initiative called Best Start for Kids, and they are currently accepting applications...
What Child Care Studies Look Like
Kate McEnroe On Demand The big topics and sub-topics in the Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue are getting regular additions, and the content grows every week. One of the latest additions is an entirely new section under the...
Cities Please
Redesign Your Data If you are an economic developer, a county name may mean everything – it’s the place you represent, maybe even the name of your organization. That said, over one-half of county names are not unique. Be proud, but be...
A Place I’ll Remember – June 2024
A Place I'll Remember For years economic developers have been advised (at least by me) that hearing about announcements of new projects is not nearly as interesting as hearing about what happened next. “After the Announcement” caught my...
Do You Need to Know Nagi?
Workforce This article from The Guardian is not current, but it’s relevant. It’s the story of a town in Japan whose circumstances are familiar there and may sound familiar to many of you – losing population,...
What’s that place called?
Redesign Your Data About 5 minutes after you have intrigued companies or individuals with the idea of moving to your community, they will want to understand neighborhoods. If you are bigger than a single-stoplight, people live and work...
A Place I’ll Remember – May 2024
A Place I'll Remember A couple of months ago Corey Murphy from the New Castle/Henry County EDC posted about two students and a graduate of the Henry County REMC Machine Trades class who made a personal presentation to the EDC Board of...