Tag: economic indicators

Better Indicators of Success

Illustration of a small town main street in fall: rehabbed brick storefront with a cafe awning and pumpkins, people of different ages gathered on benches, a blade sign, bike racks and a wheelchair-accessible ramp, a community bulletin board in the foreground, and amber-gold foliage framing the scene.

Last week we looked behind the easy answers when we talk about what it means for a community to be a “success”. What do people really mean when we talk about more people, more jobs, more tax revenue? What are broader measurements for indicators of success? I talked about some of these ideas with the […]

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Measuring Success With Some Help From Our Friends

By Lynn Suckow from Walla Walla, WA, USA - Hills, grain elevator, and little yellow plane (really), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5706900

Pullman, Washington, is the county seat of Whitman County. It’s not the largest or smallest place out there; it’s a Main Street community that seems to sit about right. The city of about 33,500 residents has grown over the past 25 years, as has the county, at a faster or slower rate like much of […]

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