Regional Economic Development

Many state and local governments are using "clawback" provisions that let governments recover their money if companies leave town or go belly-up.

The awards program not only celebrates exceptional achievements in TBED, but also provides examples of role model initiatives for peer practitioners around the country to emulate or adopt. The award also can be used as promotional tool in your marketing, recruitment, and outreach efforts.

"The potential of the West is astounding,"

"It’s really important that cities begin to embrace the countryside because that’s what they’re based upon," says Sibella Kraus, director of Berkeley’s Program for Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge, which is exploring ways to encourage urban planners to incorporate farmland into their blueprints. "The food system is the base of civilization."

"Up the value chain" is the only way forward to success. That, in turn, implies emphasis on enhanced skills, much more research and development application by business, innovation inducing continuing change and dynamic management.

Only 10 months into the job, the leader of the U.S. Small Business Administration is having the agency concentrate on pushing its programs into communities with high unemployment and poverty rates, many of them in rural areas.

"Leadership in innovation is essential to U.S. prosperity and security,"

That means Buffet now owns a 10.9 percent stake in BNSF.

The city of Vancouver has released a list of planning proposals it hopes will become the guiding document for future growth and development in the city. The main proposals include increasing density and open spaces.

"These finalists exemplify the outstanding business talent present in our community," said Greg Beams, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program director for the Pacific Northwest. "We are proud to honor them as leaders who nurture economic growth, innovation and the American dream."