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MACHIAS - Members of the Down East Route 1 Corridor Committee, active in gaining attention and funding for improvements to Down East's major thoroughfare since 1994, sense that they're suddenly being bypassed. None of those who have stuck with regular committee meetings the last 10 years have been asked to join the state's recently assembled planning group, the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy group.
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Looking for details on how a minor-league baseball team could benefit the county, the Columbia River Economic Development Council has commissioned a study of the economic impacts of building a stadium at Clark College. Paul Dennis of Cascade Planning Group in Camas and Eric Hovee of E.D. Hovee & Co. in Vancouver were hired to do the study, Eric Fuller, chairman of the CREDC, said Wednesday.
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When people talk about sprawl, it's most often discussed as an environmental or agricultural issue: How will development impact natural resources and farmland? There are a few other things to think about.
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The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is a powerful public-private civic group that, for good and ill, has shaped or controlled economic development, urban planning and transportation schemes in Pittsburgh since World War II. This year it is investing a lot of time, energy and resources into celebrating Pittsburgh's 250th birthday. Along with such signature projects as the $35 million restoration of Point State Park, it is sponsoring many arts and cultural attractions. As part of its promotional campaign, the conference has decided that the Pittsburgh 250 celebration is also "a once in a lifetime opportunity to encourage people inside and outside our region to imagine a bright future here.
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Detroit's proposed Paradise Valley Business and Entertainment District, as it is called, is being lauded by the Downtown Development Authority and the Mayor alike. Unlike the initial concept of a Black Business Enclave, now called Maroon City, which was demonized by many, some of whom were and are Black themselves, and subliminally connected to Hitler's Mien Kampf, there are no detractors on the entertainment district. Again, we can and should have both, but why the disparity, especially in Detroit, Chocolate City itself, when it comes to the City's positive reaction to entertainment and the negative reaction to the Powernomics Business Plan? Is it that entertainment is safe for the real powers-that-be in Detroit? It's acceptable to party but unacceptable to build vertically integrated ...
... the difference between the local economic impact of an entertainment district and that of a ... owned and controlled by non-Black ethnic groups! As I said, what's up with that, Detroit?. Additio... Economic Growth Corp) group took over planning with a pledge to make the idea more inclusive and ...
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Detroit's proposed Paradise Valley Business and Entertainment District, as it is called, is being lauded by the Downtown Development Authority and the Mayor alike. Unlike the initial concept of a Black Business Enclave, now called Maroon City, which was demonized by many, some of whom were and are Black themselves, and subliminally connected to Hitler's Mien Kampf, there are no detractors on the entertainment district. Again, we can and should have both, but why the disparity, especially in Detroit, Chocolate City itself, when it comes to the City's positive reaction to entertainment and the negative reaction to the Powernomics Business Plan? Is it that entertainment is safe for the real powers-that-be in Detroit? It's acceptable to party but unacceptable to build vertically integrated ...
... the difference between the local economic impact of an entertainment district and that of a ... owned and controlled by nonBlack ethnic groups! As I said, what's up with that, Detroit?. Additio... Economic Growth Corp) group took over planning with a pledge to make the idea more inclusive and ...
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*Session one, 10 a.m., "Hip-Hop, I AM a Cultural and Economic Explosion" will feature pianelists (William) Devlin, vice president, Independence Planning Group and founder, Urban Family Council; Lisa Ellis, president, Sony Urban Music; Bakari Kitwana, author, lecturer and co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention; Marcyliena Morgan, professor, Department of Communication, founder and director of the HipHop Archives, Stanford University; and Clarion University student Emmanuel Jones. *Session two, 2 p.m., "Hip-Hop, I AM Image, Identity, and Moral Choices," will feature a panel including Monica Haynes, entertainment columnist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Gary Horton, president Erie Urban Community Development Corporation and Erie School Board Member; Bakari Kitwana; Akiba Solomo...
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BUKAVU, Congo, Feb. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- V-Day and the Fondation Panzi (DRC), with support from UNICEF, announce today the opening of City of Joy, a revolutionary new community for women survivors of gender violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). City of Joy will provide up to 180 Congolese women a year with an opportunity to benefit from group therapy; self-defense training; comprehensive sexuality education (covering HIV/AIDS, family planning); economic empowerment; storytelling; dance; theater; ecology and horticulture. Created from their vision, Congolese women will run, operate and direct City of Joy themselves. City of Joy marks the next chapter in V-Day's ongoing campaign, STOP RAPING OUR GREATEST RESOURCE: Power to the Women and Girls of the DRC. It will provi...
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Hip-Hop, I AM a Cultural and Economic Explosion," by William Devlin, vice president, Independence Planning Group and founder, Urban Family Council; Lisa Ellis, president, Sony Urban Music; Bakari Kitwana, author, lecturer and co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention; Marcyliena Morgan, professor, department of communication, founder and director of the HipHop Archives, Stanford University; and Clarion University students Emmanuel Jones and Janet White. "Hip-Hop, I AM Image, Identity, and Moral Choices," featured panelist Kitwana; Monica Haynes, entertainment columnist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Gary Horton, president Erie Urban Community Development Corp. and Erie School Board Member; Akiba Solomon former senior editor, Vibe Vixen Magazine and Health Editor, Essence Magaz...
