Regional Economic Development

One-Stop Career Centers around the country will receive a total of $3.5 million in cash and software, in addition to a donated Digital Literacy training curriculum, to further advance technology skills and training programs.

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"(People) are looking for what is the next big problem that the country has to solve.

More than half of the two dozen companies that presented at last week’s Venture Capital in the Rockies conference in Beaver Creek could land financing over the next year, based on the type of excitement seen in previous years.

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"Those towns show vitality and maintain a diversity of businesses," Schultz said this week to attendees at a workshop sponsored by Nappanee’s Community and Economic Development office. "There were more examples of these type of communities in Indiana than any other state."

"Aside from our pension costs, our healthcare costs are probably the second-most significant employee-related cost that we have,"

“It’s a question of growth management,” says Cindy Houben, head of community development for Pitkin County, which includes Aspen. Supersize homes, she says, require supersize staffs — everyone from maids to pool cleaners — and the county has too little affordable housing and too much traffic.

Entrepreneurship has become a critical component in local efforts to preserve family farms.

Evidence continues to mount that policymakers see the need for programs to benefit rural communities and citizens, but in times of tight state budgets and calls for fiscal restraint, policy-makers wonder if they can afford new programs, projects or initiatives.