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Planning lessons every small town can learn from disaster

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Note: This week and next week, I’m pleased to share these guest posts by Whitney Hoffman. She’s sharing some thoughts about being ready for and recovering from disasters. -Becky Guest post by Whitney Hoffman I’ve been a Township Supervisor in Kennett Township PA for over three years now. We’re located in what some people call […]

December 10, 2018 Filed Under: community, POV, rural, survivors Tagged With: codes, guest post, land use, local government, municipal issues, new urbanism, placemaking, resilience, urban planning, walkability

Where your future entrepreneurs and business leaders come from

By Becky McCray

  A reader wrote to me about an influx of low-income people into his town, using subsidized housing and other community services. He said a town council member had talked about them as “a drain on resources” and “dead weight.” I got angry when I read that. But it took me awhile to figure out […]

July 25, 2017 Filed Under: Best of, community, economic development, POV, rural

My Local Newspaper Wouldn’t Hire Me, So I Started My Own–Online

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Guest Post by Micah Choquette Owner, Editor and Author of the Sapulpa Times, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, population 20,000 Angrily, I hit “Send” on the message, certain that I was burning a bridge by doing so, but at this point, I didn’t care. It was 2015 and I had just spent far too long chasing a deal with […]

April 3, 2017 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, ideas, POV, rural Tagged With: guest post

Which town is yours? A small town retail strengths/weaknesses story

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7 best strengths of small town stores

Guest post by Peggy Sanders Let’s compare two small towns and how their retail outlets do business. Town A has a population of 3,700 and is on a steady decline shown by a loss of 15% since 2000, and Town B has 990 residents with a 27% increase during the past 16 years. Towns A […]

August 30, 2016 Filed Under: customer service, entrepreneurship, mistakes, POV, rural Tagged With: guest post

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