Other Economies

"Drawing on Arkansas’ experience, Keys to Growth serves as a technology-based economic development handbook for policy makers and community developers who are looking for an approach to economic growth that does not rely on industrial recruitment."

"Asked why a massive company like Cardinal Health, which employs 50,000 people worldwide, needs incentives from New Mexico to grow, Richardson said the incentives sent a message.

"We want to send a message that the state, even symbolically, wants to be supportive," Richardson said."

Times have changed in Alaska. In a May 4 opinion piece for the Anchorage Daily News, Gov. Murkowski’s Chief of Staff Jim Clark writes, "Funding entrepreneurship is not an essential function of government." (In economic development, you’re either on the bus or under it.)

"With Midwestern lawmakers having to fix budget deficits of all sizes this year, a legislative focus on fiscal survival seemed destined to dominate the 2003 sessions.
Some state leaders, though, had other plans. They instead used slumping state economies and falling tax revenues as an impetus to push for major tax reforms along with new far-reaching economic development strategies."

Historic preservation as economic development. by John Andrew Gallery Each May, the National Trust for Historic Preservation encourages cities and towns across the country to set aside a week to celebrate historic preservation accomplishments in…

(Yet another example of the fact that sustainable economic improvement is not a quick fix or something that can be attempted at every 2 years. It takes a concerted long term effort that isn’t subject to policital whims or influence every time the administration changes or the legislature meets. What can we do to gain a true understanding of this in Montana?- Russ)

"These are themes being tossed around by a group of Valley business owners who, following the lead of Boulder, Colo., and Austin, want to persuade residents to shop at local businesses instead of national chains."

"Chief Martin is an example of how Native Americans can increase economic self-sufficiency both on and outside the reservation," said Carolyn Pease-Lopez, director of the college’s American Indian Services."

Bill Brundage has a bold vision for Kentucky. As commissioner of the Office for the New Economy, his plan for development within the state during the next year is long enough to keep even the…

Hayfork, Trinity County — In California’s big cities, it can be hard to see how the fiscal slide of the last few years — the dot-com collapse, a lingering recession and life lived in the…