Joel Kotkin got it right. The Economist last week reported on increasing concern with the impending demographic disaster of China’s One-Child policy. While their 2010 census counted 1.34 billion people, the survey also reveals a “steep decline” in average annual growth rates. China’s fertility rate may be as low as 1.4 now, far below the […]
National Economic Gardening Conference
News Release For Immediate Release ANNUAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC GARDENING CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN ORLANDO MAY 19/20 Attendees Will Learn How to Develop Viable Programs to Help Strengthen Their Communities, Regions and States (Orlando, FL) — The Florida Economic Gardening Institute in conjunction with the University of Central Florida will host the 9th Annual National […]
Sen. Klobuchar speaks to MIRC
Minnesota’s Senator Amy Klobuchar spoke at lunch for the Blandin Foundation’s MIRC project at an event organized by the University of Minnesota Extension Service in St. Cloud Wednesday. It was my first time hearing the Senator. Thought she did a pretty good job with a brief talk on broadband in rural Minnesota. She spoke to […]
Kotkin and Florida: Two Sides of the Same Prosperity
[v=zWHUsXQyLZs] How are we ever supposed to improve our economic situation if we can’t even agree on what the problems are? Here we are, a good two-three years through the Greatest Recession/Depression/Indigestion since the 1930s and we’re still arguing about who did what tho whom when. The trouble with current events is they’re just too […]
Originality + Action = #OTA11
[v=k8waqwf1rBA] Innovation is the stuff of legend. Yet we understand so little about the process. Is the creative spirit in our nature or our nuture? Is it competitive or collaborative? Is it the chicken? Or is it the egg? Yes. That’s the answer I took home from the OtA Sessions—Originality and Action thnkfest in Sioux […]
APA STaR Publishes MIRC Story
This article was published last week in the newsletter of the Small Town and Rural Planning division of the American Planning Association. You can find them on Facebook, too. Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities: Broadband as a Rural Development Strategy By John C. Shepard, AICP, Southwest Regional Development Commission America’s economy runs on broadband. Ninety-five […]
Texas Declaration of Independence 1836
Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington [on-the-Brazos] on the 2nd day of March 1836. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement […]
Never Surrender Or Retreat
“To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World“: Fellow citizens and compatriots; I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, […]
Food Check-Out Week Benefits Local Food Shelf, and many others
The Cottonwood County, Minnesota, Farm Bureau is teaming up with the local Hy-Vee grocery store in Windom, MN, for a bit of food fun benefiting the local food shelf. The Cottonwood County Citizen reports: At 10 a.m. [Monday], teams from Citizen Publishing and KDOM Radio will be on a two-minute dash through the aisles of […]
Fixing the Future, Today
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy—also affectionately known as the Lincoln Land Institute—is a Cambridge, Mass, think tank active in “issues involving the use, regulation, and taxation of land.” Their material tends to be a bit esoteric (i.e. “We explore the effects of land value taxation and the practical, administrative, and political issues raised by […]
