Economic Vitality in One Photo

A photo posted by Carrie Gartner (@carriegartner) on Jan 18, 2015 at 7:58am PST Harold’s Doughnuts, the locally-owned craft doughnut shop, sells out by 8 am for the third day running. They’ve been open for 3 days.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing

Much of the economic development discussion lately has revolved around large-scale manufacturing and how we can attract the few remaining American manufacturers to our region. In the process, we tend to dismiss home-grown manufacturing as small bore operations, better suited to the DIY hipsters on Etsy. Makers and artists though are not just a quaint homage an earlier era […]

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