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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “economic development”

 

• Education Activists Take School Closing Fight To City Hall (VIDEO)

  
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  A few hundred education activists kicked off the last day of the Chicago Teachers Unions (CTU) three-day march against school closings at William J. & Charles H. Mayo Elementary School Monday morning. Mayo students were expected to come out of the school for a performance that was set to include singing, ...
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• President Obama, Bangladesh Has Faced Enough Tragedy, Don’t Take Away Jobs, Too

  
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  Sumon Yusuf/Polaris/Newscom Since late last year, workers in Bangladesh have been beset by tragedy after tragedy. First there was a factory fire that killed over 100 garment workers in November. Then last month a garment complex collapsed, killing over 1,000 people . Now, as if to add insult to injury, the Obama ...
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• Starwood calls on Wichita

  
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  This Tuesday the Wichita City Council considers economic development incentives to Starwood Hotels & Resorts for a call center to open in Wichita. Besides the usual problems with cronyism and corporate welfare (see Wichita-area economic development policy changes proposed for explanation of some problems), ...
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• San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Ten-Year Capital Improvement Plan announced by SF Mayor Lee

  
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  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Today, S.F. Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced a $4.1 billion capital improvement plan for San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The long-term infrastructure plan provides funding for terminal improvements, facility enhancements, and the creation of an on-site luxury ...
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• Sweatshops the “Best Available Alternative”? But Who Decides What Alternatives are Available?

  
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  Of all the self-styled libertarian commentaries attempting to put the Bangladesh garment factory tragedy in “perspective,” Benjamin Powell’s is probably the worst (“ Sweatshops In Bangladesh Improve The Lives Of Their Workers, And Boost Growth ,” Forbes , May 2). In Bangladesh, Powell writes, “some 4,500 ...
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• Mississippi’s Crony Capitalism Under Microscope

  
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  Like South Carolina, Mississippi is populated disproportionately with dumb as dirt, overweight, flat broke mouth breathing government dependents too stupid to realize how colossally their “Republican” government is giving them the shaft. Specifically, these dim bulbs believe unswervingly that “economic ...
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• With Nevada Recently Being Named One of the Top Ten States for a Business-Friendly Environment, Northern Nevada Development Authority Launches Website to Help Companies Make a Case for Transition

  
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  CARSON CITY, Nev., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — As the country moves out of the great recession it’s imperative that businesses look for a place to do business that will help them become successful. Nevada has been able to create opportunities that will not only increase the likelihood of business success, but have ...
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• Public Spaces and Critical Mass

  
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  Last weekend, my neighborhood had a community garage and I made a observation about critical mass and destinations that I think is work sharing. The garage sale began Friday morning and was scheduled for both Friday and Saturday. We participated in the event on both days, but my home was the only house on my block ...
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• Edible Landscapes of Attica, Greece

  
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  In Greece, during the last few years, a demand for transparency around food and a need to eliminate the intermediaries, mainly due to poor quality of products in combination to high prices, has resulted in a boom of collective action concerning the production and distribution of food. On the other hand, the ...
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• The Exception to the Rule

  
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  You dont see it as much today as we all did a number of years ago. Governors starring in their States Tourism ads was never a great idea. And, whether it was vanity or an unabashed attempt at publicly funded face time on the run up to an election (assuming the spots ran in-state), the results were predictably ...
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• Socio-economic situation under review

  
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  (VOV) – In a total of 15 socio-economic targets set for 2012, 11 were achieved or surpassed, according to a Government report released at the fifth session of the National Assembly (NA) in Hanoi on May 20. Economy remains in a fix At the session, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc reviewed the ...
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• Accelerate LI’s Lofty Goal: Create the Next U.S. Innovation Cluster

  
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  Ben Fidler When Astellas Pharma shuttered the labs of OSI Pharmaceuticals last week, no one felt that loss as acutely as the residents of Long Island, NY. OSI, famed for its lung cancer drug erlotinib (Tarceva), had shown that it was possible to create a large pharmaceutical company on Long Island. Not only was it ...
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• Biking as local commerce

  
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  Left: Paper goods from Craftgasm include these cards imprinted with images of bicycles. In the previous entry on " Interesting developments in biking ," I meant to discuss a recent entry in the Smart Growth Maryland blog, " Spoke Shops Signal Smart Growth: The Return of Neighborhood Bicycle Shops - A Sustainable ...
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• WALES CAN LEAD THE WAY IN PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION

  
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  Last week, a report was published that, woefully, received little attention from the Welsh media but could, if implemented, have a transformational effect on the way that public services are delivered here in Wales. Funded by NESTA, State of Innovation: Wales Public Services and the Challenge of Change ...
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• The Palliative Machine: Medical Monopoly Under the Corporation-State

  
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  The American medical system is corrupt, ineffective and unnecessarily costly. These outcomes are due to state violence on behalf of the politically connected elite (namely private insurers, physicians, pharmaceutical and medical device companies). Artificial scarcity, price-gouging, misallocation of research funding ...
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• Federal reports outline cost increases and time delays in Mid-City Veterans Affairs hospital construction

  
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  Recent reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office chronicle cost overruns and time delays in construction of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Mid-City. The hospitals original estimated cost of $665 million has risen to $995 million, the office reported....
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• Amtrak train from New Orleans derails in Chicago, no injuries reported

  
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  Amtraks City of New Orleans train that runs from New Orleans to Chicago suffered a derailment close to its destination on Sunday, according to news media reports. The train, which left New Orleans Saturday, was just outside Union Station...
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• Matviyenko Sez Cuba and Russia Ties on the Upswing

  
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  THIS is what HH thinks of El Comandante … any questions? He’s certainly not buying the lying rightwing twaddle that Potapov and Paffhausesn are peddling… ______________________________ During her official visit to Cuba , Valentina Matviyenko , chairman of the RF Federation Council , met with Cuban ...
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• Why Commercial Developers Should Be Afraid, Very Afraid

  
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  Metro Park VI by James A. Bacon While most commercial real estate markets across the United States are slowly recovering from the recession, office vacancies in the Washington metro area ticked higher over the past year, to 13.8% in the first quarter, according to the Wall Street Journal . Clearly a ...
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• Case Study Modern Economic Theory and Development

  
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  The past 50 years have seen marked changes in our understanding of development. We know that development is possible, but not inevitable. We have had a wealth of experiments. There are clearly no surefire formulas for success; if there were, there would be more successes.Some strategies seem to work for a while and ...
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