1. Regionalism talk has been… well, just talk - Nashville City Paper - Nashville, TN, USA

Suddenly, there’s been more talk of regionalism, communities working together for the common good of the whole. It’s the rising-tides-lifts-all boats notion.

The problem is it’s a large concept that can’t be easily defined — just ask someone who supports regionalism and you get a long-winded answer that prompts some multi-tasking during the conversation.

Regionalism as a goal is not new. Regions around the country and within Tennessee have been trying to figure out the benefit for decades. You could argue that the concept goes back to the colonies working together to rid themselves of Mother England.

But can it work in Middle Tennessee? To do so, government and civic leaders would have to have a dramatic shift that gets beyond lip service and self-interest.

There’s already regionalism in terms of emergency services. Police in one county will work with another to catch a criminal. That’s to everyone’s benefit. Fire departments have standing agreements to help out others if needed. That’s to everyone’s benefit.

But recruiting companies and business to the region is a murky area when it comes to regionalism, as is the effort to stem rampant suburban sprawl. The latter effort is like a hamster on a wheel, a lot of work with the only result being exercise.

The fear is sprawling like Atlanta. Cumberland Region Tomorrow is trying to prevent that by convincing local government folks to preserve green space and think about creating high-density areas with the vast green in between.

One problem there is that changing the thinking can’t outpace the speed of developers to build in suburban counties. If there’s demand, they are going to fill it and scrape farmland. They will build many times with the support of a government trying to expand the tax base to pay for services without raising property taxes …

RC: Greater Nashville Regional Council

 

  2.  Ga. Water Council sets up sharing plan for Legislature - Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA

While much of Georgia remains gripped in a historic drought, a state body on Tuesday adopted a framework to divide limited water supplies.

Now the work can begin. Decisions made in 11 newly formed planning districts will determine where and how Georgia continues growing. Upstream or down, they will have to work together.

The first hurdle is the General Assembly, which will have a chance to approve or rewrite the proposal starting next week.

At the same time, the Legislature will be asked to come up with at least some of the estimated $36.5 million needed to gather data and create regional water plans for the districts over the next three years. Local governments most likely will have to contribute as well.

Currently, metro Atlanta is the only region in the state that has an enforceable water plan, one that was finalized in 2003 and will be updated this year. A 2001 state law formed the metro district, a 16-county region home to about half the state's 9.4 million people.

After Tuesday's vote in downtown Atlanta, state Sen. Ross Tolleson (R-Perry), chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee and a non-voting member of the Georgia Water Council, said the proposal should quell concerns from cities and counties around the state that metro Atlanta will take their water to continue growing.

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But the perception persists that the proposal is not strong enough to prevent metro Atlanta from sticking straws in the Flint River and other waterways. In a recent column, political analyst Bill Shipp suggested south Georgia form a separate state, the better to battle Atlanta's pending water grab.

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RCs: Georgia Regional Development Centers

 

  3.  Collision of dynamic forces - Kannapolis Independent Tribune - Kannapolis, NC, USA

Jeff Michael, director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, sees Cabarrus as a microcosm of the entire region.

The county has simultaneously experienced particularly intense losses of manufacturing jobs and particularly intense growth in population, Michael said.

“There’s just a real collision of two really dynamic forces happening in Cabarrus County, ” Michael said.

Those two dramatic shifts are evident in the institute’s inaugural study of regional trends. Some results show the local economy has rebounded to a position of relative strength, and others show a community straining to handle an influx of newcomers.

The initial version of the Regional Indicators Project examined 54 factors in 10 theme areas in a geographic area that includes 11 counties in North Carolina (Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly and Union) and three in South Carolina (Chester, Lancaster and York).

Directed by an advisory board of regional leaders, organizers plan to release annual updates and additions so the public can track trends over time.

Comparing statistics across the region could help shed light on vexing, important issues, Michael said. One potential example: Why has Gaston, which is a similar distance from Charlotte as Cabarrus and has similar interstate highway access, not experienced such explosive growth?

After this report establishes a baseline, Michael said, future surveys with altered or additional indicators should provide researchers with the opportunity to make some “really exciting” observations.

Here are a few of the first year’s findings in some key categories with comments from area leaders: …

RCs: NC - Centralina Council of Governments   

         SC -  Catawba Regional Council of Governments

 

  4. FOCUS ON THE FUTURE Toledo 2020: Engaging future stakeholders - Toledo Free Press - OH, USA

At the beginning of each new year, I find myself feeling more optimistic about the future. I see advances in medicine, new communications technologies, breakthroughs in alternative energy, exciting innovations in our space program, scientific discoveries in every field of research and bright, young people graduating from our high schools and colleges ready to “take on the world.” It's easy to see the increased potential for social and economic progress and feel an exciting sense of momentum.

Yet, I must also confess that my natural optimism is qualified, perhaps more than ever, by a growing sense of concern about what our generation has neglected or where we may have failed altogether. I'm concerned about what we are handing off to the next generation and those who follow them. Will our children and grandchildren be able to correct the mistakes we've made, which produced global warming? Will they be able to find solutions to our failing schools and deteriorating city centers? Will they be able to afford to rebuild the aging infrastructure of our cities and states? Will they be able to chip away at the national debt? And will they have the knowledge, insights and courage to retain the positive values of freedom, participation and democracy that have served our communities and our nation?

I've talked with many of our region's citizens, people who own large and small businesses, civic leaders who serve on community boards and those who take responsibility for supporting our wonderful community assets, …

They are saddened and somewhat frustrated by the negative perspectives that continue to dominate important sectors of the mass media. And they have an unfulfilled desire for a vision for our metropolitan region and a collaborative strategy that engages our best leaders in both the private and public sectors.

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RC: Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments

 

  5.  Industry experts doubtful on merger of the Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot - The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk, VA, USA

Imagine: An ambitious buyer scoops up both The Virginian-Pilot and the Daily Press in Newport News and merges them into one regional paper.

Maybe The Virginian-Press? Or The Daily-Pilot?

Local boosters of regionalism relish the thought.

"Interesting, " said E. Dana Dickens, president and chief executive officer of the Hampton Roads Partnership, musing over the specter of one regional paper.

Don't hold your breath, media researchers say.

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"The few times there have been attempts to create regional newspapers, they haven't worked out well, " said Morton, president of Morton Research Inc.

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"There has proven to be danger when you take the identity of two different papers with historically different audience bases and try to make them into one, " he said. "It's not something that would be in the top of most potential acquirers' minds."

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Atorino, managing director of The Benchmark Co. LLC, said a more likely scenario is a "duopoly, " in which one buyer acquires both papers and maintains them. "Unless one paper is not well known in the area, why destroy the brand?"

Because it would give readers a better sense of the goings-on across Hampton Roads, said Dickens, whose organization is promoting an "America's First Region" license plate as part of its regionalism push.

"Having one newspaper with all of the regional news being viewed by people in both markets, I think, would contribute a great deal to bringing the region closer together, " he said.

Arthur L. Collins, executive director of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, agreed.

"Because there are different papers on both sides of Hampton Roads, there is a sense that they're different communities, " he said. "You only hear about what's going on on your side of the river. It reinforces the separation."

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  6. Creating Inspirational Spaces: A Guide to Quality Public Realm in the Northwest - Landscape Institute - UK

Creating Inspirational Spaces: A Guide for Quality Public Realm in the Northwest has been produced by Gillespies on behalf of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and RENEW Northwest, and forms part of the wider Places Matter! programme co-ordinated by RENEW Northwest.

This guide is aimed at all people involved in the creation of public realm in the Northwest whether designers, commissioners, managers or community groups. It is for all those engaged in the use, design, implementation and ongoing management and maintenance of our outdoor spaces.

It seeks to challenge existing methods of working and to inspire and demand a committed and holistic approach to the design and management of public realm.

This publication is the first step to initiating a culture change in the region, raising aspirations and facilitating the creation of the highest quality external environments. The principles set out are not just applicable to the high profile town centre square, they should apply equally to the small neighbourhood centre, community greenspace or the residential street.

PDF download

 

  7. Regional police force still possible - PennLive.com - Harrisburg, PA, USA

repairing broken bonds

Thanks to modern science and human ingenuity, we have glues and superglues to handle some of the trickiest bonding jobs. Fine porcelain. Stubborn wood. Jagged tile. Unyielding metal. Crumbling concrete. And, yes, even delicate human tissue.

But there remains no quick fix for fractured partnerships.

If there were such a product on store shelves, the Colonial Regional Police Department could use a tube or two.

This once rock-solid effort at regionalization has been falling apart for some time now with bickering over ownership of its new headquarters and questions about whether Hanover Township is legally obligated to break bonds with partners Bath and Lower Nazareth Township.

For years, this partnership has been held up as the gold star of regionalization efforts with municipalities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey encouraged by its success.

But last year -- in the midst of the squabbling over the new headquarters -- Hanover Township submitted a letter saying it intended to leave the fold. The township has since changed its mind. And while Lower Nazareth Township has accepted Hanover Township's recommitment to the relationship, Bath is insisting Hanover's letter of intent is binding and Hanover must go.

That's just plain crazy.

One reason any partner must provide a year's notice of an impending departure is to allow for a cooling-off period, along with ample opportunity to work out problems that may have led to the intended split.

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Officials from all three communities need to recommit themselves to ironing out their differences, avoiding a trial and keeping this once shining example of regionalization intact.

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  8.  Great Lakes Region Sees More People Leaving; West, South Welcome Residents According to 2007 United Van Lines Migration Study - FOX News – USA

Movement out of the Great Lakes region increased in 2007, while the South and West generally showed an inbound migration trend. The statistics are among the findings of United Van Lines' 31st annual "migration" study that tracks where its customers, over the last 12 months, moved from and the most popular destinations. The findings were announced by Carl Walter, vice president of United Van Lines, the nation's largest household goods mover.

United has tracked shipment patterns annually on a state-by-state basis since 1977. For 2007, the accounting is based on the 212, 917 interstate household moves handled by United among the 48 contiguous states, as well as Washington, D.C. In its study, United classifies each state in one of three categories -- "high inbound" (55% or more of moves going into a state); "high outbound" (55% or more of moves coming out of a state); or "balanced." Although the majority of states were in the "balanced" category last year, several showed more substantial population shifts.

MOVING IN

The South emerged as a top migration spot in 2007, with North Carolina coming in as the top destination (61.6% inbound). Alabama (57.9%) experienced its fifth year as a high-inbound location, while South Carolina (57.8%) continued its 14-year inbound tradition. West Virginia (55.7%) witnessed its highest inbound percentage since 1993, and Tennessee, with 55.1%, rounded out the high-inbound list for the South.

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MOVING OUT

States in the Great Lakes region generally showed an outbound trend, according to United's records. Ranked No. 1 on the high-outbound list last year, Michigan (67.8%) once again captured the top outbound spot.

Other Great Lakes states that made the high-outbound list were: New York (59.4%), which has been an outbound state since the survey was established;

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  9. Another way to solve consolidation problems - Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta, ME, USA

Though it is generally well known that the state's Department of Education submitted a bill to the Legislature to deal with some of the "cost shift" issues that have plagued the school reorganization law, what is less well known is that three members of the Legislature's Education Committee put together a competing proposal that could be a simple and creative approach to solving many of the problems that have hobbled the school reorganization effort thus far.

The so-called "minority report" of the Education Committee was proposed by Reps. Edgecomb, McFadden and Muse, who represent towns in rural Aroostook, Washington and Oxford counties, respectively. Seeking to do more than tinker around the edges of a law that is clearly unworkable for many, they developed an alternative designed to provide towns with a different way to achieve cost savings and improve services within their schools.

In short, their plan would allow school units to choose one of two different ways to regionalize school services, either consolidation or collaboration.

If they so choose, local districts could continue with their current efforts to create a Regional School Unit as outlined in the existing law.

Or, if that approach has proven impractical, districts could instead choose to create a kind of super-sized school union. As with the school union model used widely in Maine today, districts that are part of these unions would remain independent while sharing services regionally.

Allowing the districts to remain autonomous, rather than consolidate into one large school unit, solves a number of the problems created by the merger provision of the existing law. ...

Avoiding an actual merger of districts also solves the issue of regional governance, ...

 

10. U.S. regional communities - sub-State, State or multi-State - in news articles. Highlighted words are Google search terms. In this and the following section, links to websites of organizations are added to the news excerpt when this is the first time an organization has been found. A goal of this newsletter is to find every regional council in the U.S. in a news story.  In most cases, where a full name is present a Google search will quickly get one to that organization. 

    .10  Hasan Ikhrata Named SCAG's New Executive Director - PDF

scag-ca-gov

After completing an extensive national recruiting effort, the Regional Council of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) formally approved the hiring of Hasan Ikhrata as the agency’s new Executive Director, replacing Mark Pisano who left the organization on December 31. Hasan has worked for SCAG for more than thirteen years, most recently serving as the agency’s Director of Planning and Policy. …

 

    .11 SEMCOG director brings passion to his job
MLive.com
Tait, an Ypsilanti resident for 20 years, did not demur. He brought his experience as director of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments to help the city. SEMCOG provides data, training and long-range planning to local governments in seven Michigan counties. …

 

    .12 EODD director to retire after 15 years
Muskogee Daily Phoenix - Muskogee, OK, USA
Bruce Mahaffey said helping people has been the best part of being executive director of the Eastern Oklahoma Development District. He is retiring from the job after 15 years and will be replaced by Deputy Director Joe Harrington. ...

 

    .13  If we don't raise our sales tax, we'll never have better roads
Modesto Bee - Modesto, CA, USA
We hope the Stanislaus Council of Governments board -- with an elected representative from each of the nine cities and all five supervisors -- gets it. ...

 

    .14  Coalition wants a comprehensive I-81 solution
Roanoke Times - Roanoke, VA, USA
The agencies could restore the integrity of the planning process by supplementing their Tier I study with the results of the state's long-awaited multistate ...

 

    .15  Response to roads plan mixed
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond, VA, USA
Some local officials questioned the appetite for tax increases or another layer of government, while others suggested that a proposed regional authority for ...

 

    .16  Buffalo's Rebirth
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Now that we know we must fix our roads, rationalize our health care facilities, fund our arts and regionally manage our sewage, I can’t think of any better ...

 

    .17  Task force to study I-495 congestion
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford, MA, USA
The Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District is establishing a task force to provide SRPEDD with feedback on I-495 regarding present ...

 

    .18  Regional council’s priorities in sync with the town’s
Redding Pilot - Georgetown, CT, USA
Redding is joining other members of its regional planning council to promote items of importance this year to the region’s legislators. ...

 

    .19  Landfill chief pushes for regional cooperation
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
A move toward stricter environmental regulations for Wyoming landfills means towns and counties around the Bighorn Basin should cooperate now on long-term plans for regional solid-waste solutions, said Dave Hoffert, Park County's landfill superintendent. ...

 

    .20  Workshops to focus on regional demographic inequities
By The Oregonian
The increase of child poverty in east Multnomah County and outer southeast Portland and other demographic inequities described in the 2007 Regional Equity Atlas will be discussed at Portland-area public workshops in January and February ...

 

    .21  Northern Kentucky Still Without Cold Shelter
WCPO - Cincinnati, OH, USA
... the homeless that yes in fact we have this need and this how large the need is, " said Michael Hurysz of the Northern Kentucky Area Development District. ...

 

    .22  Our commitment to you
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro, NC, USA
We’ll still pester Triad leaders with the "R" word, as in "regionalism, " until more of them see the light of greater gains through greater collaboration. ...

 

    .23  Chesapeake Regional Tech Council expanding its reach
TechJournal South - Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Just outside the immediate Potomac region surrounding Washington, DC, the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council in Anne Arundel County, Maryland no longer sees itself as a single-county organization.  ...

 

    .24  New Executive Committee for SPO/SEDCorp

YubaNet.com – CA, USA
SPO is the designated regional Council of Governments (COG) for the foothill region of El Dorado, Placer, Nevada and Sierra Counties, focused on regional policy concerns such as land use near regional airports, environmental impacts and ...

 

    .25  Metro Detroit to get economic development money
Detroit Free Press - United States

The Economic Development Coalition of Southeast Michigan said it has gained $3 million in funding from federal authorities …  "By forming a coalition of the region's economic developers, we were able to travel to Washington as a group and make one request, "… "The delegation was impacted by our show of unity and a coordinated advocacy program." The specific funding includes $2 million for Automation Alley, …

 

    .26  Automation Alley Releases Key Data on the State of Southeast Michigan's Technology Economy
Reuters - USA
These numbers suggest that the region is retaining, and even attracting, high-paying technology jobs. Life sciences and advanced manufacturing experienced ...

 

    .27  San Francisco Bay Area Mayors Unveil Regional Emergency Coordination Plan

Government Technology - Folsom, CA, USA
Today, in recognition of the need for a regional response to natural and human-caused emergencies Mayor Gavin Newsom, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed were joined by regional emergency management officials, ...

 

    .28  Program to feature Region 8 and Tri-County Council
Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune - Keyser, WV, USA
The Greater Cumberland Committee (TGCC) members will hear from the Tri-County Council and Region 8 Planning and Development Council ... Both agencies are responsible for fostering economic and community development in the counties they serve.

 

    .29  Carpooling: it's not just for Tucsonans anymore
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson, AZ, USA
Groups of five to 15 people can join up to carpool or share rides to work through the Pima Association of Governments’ vanpool program. ...

 

    .30  Ohio State, LSU fans are polar opposites
SportingNews-com – USA

Seeing the two on the same street reminds you of one of collegiate athletics' most unique and special attributes: regionalism. ...

 

    .31  County safety teams planned
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson, KY, USA
The teams for each county are part of a joint safety effort by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Green River Area Development District, Kentucky State ...

 

    .32  The Albany Agency Supports and Mirrors Growing Tech Valley Region
Reuters - USA
... carrying through the region's rich tradition of giving back through community service, " explained Nicholas Preddice, General Agent, the Albany Agency. ...

 

    .33  Traveling flag will welcome submarine home
Gainesville Times - Gainesville, GA, USA
US Navy representatives are collaborating with multiple Georgia Regional Development Centers to plan a statewide Georgia Flag Project that takes the state ...

 

    .34  Ex-Official Admits She Stole Funds At Agency

The Ledger – FL, USA

The former finance director of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council pleaded guilty Friday to grand theft. … O'Neill resigned her $69, 072-a-year position in December 2006 after she was confronted with the irregularities discovered independently by Pat Steed, the council's executive director, and by Mike Carter with The NCT Group, the council's external auditor. …

 

11. Other in the news: Highlighted words are Google search terms.

    .10  OECD site offers statistical co-operation
Information World Review - London, UK
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has overhauled its statistical service, making it easier to locate relevant statistics in the OECD’s databases. OECD.Stat, now available in beta, enables users to search all 50 of the OECD’s statistical databases at the same time. …   

 

    .11  Low-carbon economy – Regions that may rescue the planet
Ethical Corporation Magazine - London, UK
A recent report from the Climate Group shows that regions are in a better position to move fast because they can develop a test-bed for national climate ... 

 

    .12  We are against all cars: CSE
Business Standard
While RK Pachauri, who heads the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recently called it an environmental nightmare, Centre for Science and Environment says it has nothing against the small car.

 

    .13  REGIONAL BOSSES IN FEAR OF ECO-TOWNS 'DISASTER'
Leicester Mercury - Leicester, England, UK
East Midlands' Regional Spacial Strategy, which was put together to map where best to build new homes, states the best way is to build houses is tagging them on to existing urban areas. ...

 

    .14  Tories cast doubt on the future of RDAs
Telegraph-co-uk - United Kingdom
The conservatives have called on the English regional development agencies to justify their existence ... have failed in their main objective of closing the economic growth gap between regions in the north and south of the country. ...

 

    .15  Lapland Tourism Industry Hits New Highs
By HKI_Reporter
According to Sami Laakkonen of the Regional council of Lapland, the travel industry now provide 5 000 jobs in Finnish Lapland and gross earnings for the sector last year hit half a billion euros. As recently as in the year 2000 the ...

 

    .16  Editorial: Solving the city's policing problems
Times Colonist - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce supports police regionalization. A BC Progress Board crime report in 2006 described the current structure as ...

 

    .17  One populous valley, one political voice

TelegraphJournal-com – New Brunswick, CA
The Kennebecasis Valley is growing and changing, and its residents are starting to look to local leaders for common, cost-effective solutions. Regionalization will be the dominant issue in May's municipal elections, whether amalgamation ...

 

    .18  You can have your say in new planning rules
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
We would also encourage members of the public concerned about development in their area to write to the Environment and Regional Development Ministers, ...

 

    .19  Growth regions draw city slickers
Courier Mail - Australia
… As well as retaining more of their natural population, regional boom towns have become magnets for migrants from cities such as Sydney and Melbourne, seeking an affordable change and better way of life.

 

    .20  Cash for cross-border cooperation
Warsaw Business Journal (subscription) - Poland

… Poland's border regions with "old Europe" will also get a lift. A program to foster development of the Polish-German border region between the German state of Saxony and …

 

12. Blogs: Highlighted words are Google search terms.

    .10  GROW Oklahoma: Focus on Regionalism Statewide
By Celina Shands Gradijan
Full Capacity Marketing, Inc. is working with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce Division of Workforce Solutions on its annual report to tell their powerful story of statewide collaboration and regionalism. The detailed report will be ...

 

    .11  South Florida Regional Planning Council: What the hell is it?
By Genius of Despair(Genius of Despair)
There is this part of the DCA, which I don't quite understand, called the South Florida Regional Planning Council (SFRPC) which votes on regional issues. Regional issues are those that impact more than one county. ...

 

    .12  Qualls submits OKI 2030 recommendations
By Kevin LeMaster
The Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky Regional Council of Governments (OKI) adopted the OKI 2030 Regional Transportation plan in 2004 as a comprehensive, long-range planning document outlining how more than $7 billion will be spent to address the ...

 

    .13  Do Economists undermine community?
By Marshall Jevons(Marshall Jevons)

The Dismal Science How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community … economics celebrates the self-interested, calculating individual and the market as a means of realizing individual satisfactions, and this celebration is important in overcoming opposition to extending the sway of the market and, by the same token, undermining community. …

 

    .14  rethinking regionalism
By Janko(Janko)
i will shout youngstown - SlideShare

 

    .15  Can't we all just get along?
By Chris Holt(Chris Holt)
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has identified regional cooperation and coordinated regional planning as a priority. This is a timely issue as the global competition amongst regions becomes more pronounced. Virtually all growth-related ...

 

    .16  Geoff Anderson Takes Helm at Smart Growth America

By Keith Schneider 

Geoff Anderson has the inside government experience to know where the pressure points lie, as well as the earnest temperament to build the coalitions to press for new policy. But it’s not clear whether he has the political instincts to ...

 

    .17  "Free and Independent" Lakota Nation Releases Map and Threatens Liens Against Five States

By MikeTheActuary
Lakota representatives say if the United States does not enter into immediate diplomatic negotiations, liens will be filed on real estate transactions in the five state region, clouding title over literally thousands of square miles of ...

 

    .18  Business Challenges 2008 & beyond - are you geared?
By MTI Consulting
The tectonic shift in economic power regionally as well as globally will dry up funds for the mature economies (owing to higher risk) as investment funds flow to the new economic power houses. Greater global attention and funding will ...

 

    .19  Faced with drought, Syria demands more water from Turkey.
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara, Turkey
 A Syrian official asked Turkey to release more water from the Euphrates River to help combat the country's drought problem, … both countries aimed to contribute to the regional stability …

 

    .20  GoogleEarth geopolitical maps
By aldeby
Looking for GoogleEarth geopolitical & political maps / layers? Have a look at here! Many thanks fly to Valery Hronusov (Valery35) for his precious and priceless work! Library for automatic connection to popular collections of forum ...

 

    .21  The Importance of the Local Plan
By nazy
These plans are actually prepared to implement macro planning policies set out in the National Physical Plan, the State Structure Plan and the Regional Plan (called development plans) all of which have been prepared under the Town and ...

 

    .22  Lack of regional leadership in Latin America
By Jonathan Beutler(Jonathan Beutler)
Having given such little attention to Latin America, the Bush administration has contributed to the creation of a regional leadership vacuum. But this vacuum may soon be filled by moderate political leaders who seek for regional unity, ...

 

    .23  Rural transport to be pushed into all areas
Sinn Féin Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy MP MLA has said that a scheme to provide door to door transport for those who have problems getting around is to be rolled out into rural areas in the new year.

 

    .24  Why is Chicago Transit in Such a Crisis?
By Laura Callier
But fixing the problems won’t be easy; regional cooperation is essential. Remember this issue isn’t about city vs. suburb; it is a matter of Chicagoland vs. congestion, Chicagoland vs. air pollution, and Chicagoland vs. economic decline ...

 

    .25  Newspapers in 2020, ‘localism, ’ and ‘analytic journalism’
By John Stoehr
But we’re in an age of renewed attention to localism and regionalism, and book reviews — like farmers’ markets, or even local currencies — can do their part. A resurgence of localism and a renewed push for grassroots literary criticism ...

 

    .26  Call for papers: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development in Developing Countries

By Ian(Ian)
The aim of this issue is to address the importance of policy making and awareness raising in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development, concerning developing countries, especially those in South East Europe. ...

 

    .27  Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development: The UK Experience

By Bradbury, Jonathan (editor)
Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development provides an assessment of the development of devolution, regionalism and regional development in the UK from the late 1990s to the end of the Blair Governments. ...

 

13. Announcements and Regional Links

    .10  UNT Libraries, CyberCemetery: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations · Brief History of the ACIR · Bibliography of Publications by and about the ACIR · Browse Titles Available in Full Text. University of North Texas Libraries, Government Documents Dept., P.O. Box 305190, Denton, TX 76203-5190

 

    .11  Regionalization of Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response: Summary

Under its Evidence-based Practice Program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools. Contractor institutions review all relevant scientific literature on assigned clinical care topics and produce evidence reports and technology assessments, conduct research on methodologies and the effectiveness of their implementation, and participate in technical assistance activities.

 

    .12 Regionalisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regionalisation refers to the tendency to form regions or the process of doing so.

• In geography, the process of delineating the Earth into regions.
• In globalization …
• In politics, …

 

 14. Google News for “Regional Community”

Other menu sections available from this link include: regions, regional, regional community, region, Regional Council, regional development and other search terms. They can be sorted by date or relevance. These are among the 50 search terms I use to produce this newsletter.