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States Turn Toward Regional Strategies – Is your state implementing a regional economic development strategy?

"We have a number of very strong regional groups that are capable of taking the lead in the field." This is a very mild-mannered way to describe a significant inversion of state policy. States usually don’t even recognize their regions, seeing instead a fractured map of hyper-local jurisdictions, commissions, and boards. And they certainly don’t tell them, "You show us the way, because you know best."

Jennifer Bradley

Full Story: http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0131_state_restructuring_bradley.aspx

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