OCMA National Trends in Economic Development presentation
For those of you attending the Ohio City-County Manager’s association presentation today, here is a link to the presentation, in case you want to follow along. Gold star for you! ...
Fiscal Impact Analysis
Slides from APA Ohio, National Trust and Downtown Colorado presentations (also known as the Dry Throat Tour)
For those of you that attended sessions with me at conferences in September or October, I am glad to say that I finally got the slides posted to Slideshare so ...
The biggest challenge to the Youngstown/Detroit right-sizing approach
Note: this blog post was original published in late 2009, shortly after Dave Bing took office in Detroit and when the issue of downsizing that city first began to be discussed ...
Is our community’s financial future being undermined by changing demographics?
This post is NOT mine…. I get no credit except maybe a little editing. My friend Bill Lutz, the Community Development Director for Piqua, Ohio, has a tendency to raise ...
The challenges of the Youngstown decline management model
My last blog post focused on one of several points made in an article at www.newgeography.com that discussed issues around Detroit’s post-industrial environment. In addition to an interesting insight into ...
Governing at the scale of the region in Kentucky
Regional government is a touchy subject at best in most places — and one likely to get you chased out of town with sharp implements in others. In Kentucky, however, ...
So what was the Fiscal Impact Analysis Model intended to do?
As I outlined in the last post on this topic, OKI’s Fiscal Impact Model was designed to provide every community in the OKI region with an off-the-rack option for fiscal ...
The OKI Fiscal Impact Model — Finally ready to roll!
I spent a huge amount of time over the past year working with the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments and the University of Cincinnati School of Planning and Center for Economics ...
