The West Virginia Department of Commerce should be commended for landing $130 million in federal stimulus funds to expand high-speed internet access across the state. I’m sure West Virginia’s application was assisted by Senator Jay Rockefeller, who has been a …
Richard Florida’s book The Rise of the Creative Class was the standard tome for economic and community revitalization for most of the past decade. In it Dr. Florida taught us that all we needed to do was focus on three …
Despite being championed/cynically exploited by three Governors and a whole host of political leaders, Vision Shared has not been very successful. Why?
The first problem, I daresay, is with Vision Shared’s mission: “To bridge social, political and economic gaps by
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Vision Shared, a group created in 2000 to make West Virginia more economically competitive, recently issued its 2009 annual report.
Like the organization itself, the report is a mile wide and an inch deep. You have to skip to …
Over the last few weeks, I have come across writings from very different genres that challenge economic development and education “groupthink.” I encourage you to peruse the links in this and other upcoming posts because they truly will cause you …