The three main barriers to meaningful public engagement

From The Local Economy Revolution: What’s Changed and How You Can Help

Every week, I open The Local Economy Revolution to a random spot and give you a selection…

The Long Hard Slog of Community Revitalization (and how media fails us): A close observer’s

Crowdsource Wisdom: The Introduction

I have been working on a new book about how and why we can do public engagement or public participation that actually develops useful information, doesn’t make most people miserable and actually helps people help make their communities better. My evolving shorthand…

The Rust Belt Bird-Flip to Dying

From the Wise Economy Workshop

Sometimes you have to force yourself to walk with your ghosts so that you know who they are. And who you are, too.

Tax Breaks for Tech Hiring: know what you’re getting and change how you do economic development

As most of my readers know, I am an avid tech startup junkie with a strong interest in how tech companies are reacting to and themselves remaking economies, both…

Crowdsourcing Wisdom, Beginning of Part 2

After a few weeks of trying to catch up on everything else from the Fall Travel Palooza, I am trying to get the Crowdsourcing Wisdom book finished before the end of the month. The book has three parts — the first section, which I’ve shared previously, tries…

Tax Breaks for Tech Hiring: well….

what we pragmatically can, and should, expect in job growth policy.