Regional Economic Development

Karen G. Mills has a big job: Get struggling small businesses the help they need to power the U.S. into economic recovery.

Tim Collins, carrying on a family tradition, suggests that for long-term development, we must organize around our relationships to water and to the other communities, urban and rural, along those same waterways.

Buy Local – Buy Small Business. Today’s RA column talks about the importance of supporting your locally-owned small businesses. This is especially critical given the upcoming holiday season.

“We’re in the midst of this great recession, but there are still investors interested in investing locally,” said Eric Rosenfeld, who co-manages the Oregon Angel Fund.

"There is a lot of work that needs to be done to get our economy back on track," U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

Treasury Set to Buy Loans With $15 Billion in Bailout Funds

Have your home on the range, access to a few thousand acres …without paying for it all!

Our region has tremendous cultural tolerance for experimenters. Our people are ready and willing to try new ideas that are sometimes a little crazy, and we are energetic about shooting off in new directions—not hampered by musty, cobwebbed, traditional thinking, the way New England and the Midwest and the South can sometimes seem.

The Inland Northwest Economic Alliance (INEA) is an alliance of 10 regional economic development agencies representing 14 counties in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.

Auditors in five states have reported management and oversight problems in the past four years with weatherization programs, which provide energy-efficient heating or cooling systems and other improvements to lower utility bills.