The Distillery – A Book for You
The Distillery I can’t lie, I’ve mostly been reading what I call “airport fiction” lately – those series of novels that are the literary equivalent of Law and Order or CSI. But I did drop them for this book –...
A Place I’ll Remember – January 2025
A Place I'll Remember Global Detroit is not a new organization, but its mission and strategies are worth a look to any community that understands that attracting, integrating, and supporting immigrants will strengthen local economies and...
Look for the Lights
Uncategorized Greetings from Milan, Dublin, Seville. I’ve always taken a great deal of pleasure in sending out lots and lots of handwritten holiday cards, but that’s an especially heavier lift this year as we continue...
A Place I’ll Remember – December 2024
A Place I'll Remember Rutherford County, TN is all in on the Amazing Shake program developed by the Ron Clark Academy to cultivate interpersonal and professional communications skills early in students’ lives. Kids in grades 4-8 are...
Sitting down on the job
Workforce An observation from day-to-day life during my recent month in Ireland was the practice of supermarket cashiers sitting down on the job. Not as a special accommodation. A small thing, perhaps, but it sent me down a...
500 Links and Growing
Kate McEnroe On Demand The Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue has grown to over 500 links, and I’m adding more pretty much every week. Why wouldn’t I? Every week I come across examples of how economic developers across...
Just in Case
Redesign Your Data Economic developers who spend time working with their employers to solve staffing issues may have a new challenge in store. On average, estimates are that one in 20 people in the U.S. workforce are unauthorized...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2024
A Place I'll Remember This month A Place I’ll Remember is a little different. Bray, Ireland is my base camp for month one of a three month European adventure. I can’t claim any expertise at all about the current state and the future of...