Your Neighbor Is Not Your EnemyIn the summer of 1768, a Pennsylvania lawyer named John Dickinson published a song in the Boston Gazette. Colonists sang it at meetings,...
Tourism Keeps Our Hometown OursA few years ago, I came across this study which included this: “The Destination Management Cycle,” created by Maura Gast of the Irving, ...
Hope Is Not a Business or Community StrategyPooja Agnihotri said, " Fighting a change and clinging to the same old ways of doing things have never proved to be productive for anyon...
Balance Is the Real Growth StrategyDrive through almost any small town in America and you will see the same split screen. Many the storefronts on Main Street sit dark, and...
Dream Big or Watch Your Town Fade!Nearly half of America's rural counties lost population between 2020 and 2025, a combined loss of almost 460,000 people. I have driven t...
Multiple Chambers – 3 States - 1 Voice- A Reach No One C... There is strength in numbers, and now there is proof of it. Over a dozen regional Chambers, Main Streets and Communities spanning NW Ark...
What is a DMO, and Why Does It Matter For Our County?Q: What is a DMO? A Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) is the official entity responsible for promoting a county or community to v...
Bet On Small Business, Not Big BoxesNearly four years ago I wrote about a study called "Where Our Jobs Come From." The author, Don Macke of the Center for Rural Entrepreneu...
Communities Grow Faster by Not CompetingI have driven through enough small towns sitting fifteen minutes apart to notice the same thing every time. Each one has its own downtow...
Change Has Already Arrived. Will You Manage It?Over the years, I've written more columns than I can count about the need to accept change, I guess that is my area of greatest concern ...
Voting Turnout Impacts Community WealthLet me start by saying that voter engagement impacts the vibrancy, poverty levels, and wealth of your community in a big way. Only one i...
Communities, Not Companies, Decide Which Dreams SurviveI still think about a sign I noticed in a small retail shop while traveling. It read, "When you support a local small business, you're s...