by Maury Forman | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the holiday issue. For many economic development professionals, especially those working with entrepreneurs and local expansion of products and services, this time of year provides for an absolute no-nonsense metric: Sales over the course of a few short...
by Maury Forman | Nov 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
November is important to people in many different ways. This year it caps one of the most gorgeous autumns in recent memory but there are also public and private events and celebrations of traditions that include family and friends, from football and parades to...
by Maury Forman | Oct 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
October is here! The month that children get to celebrate Halloween by dressing up in scary costumes and extorting candy from their community neighborhoods. Kids and dentists love it. I have often said that economic development is like Halloween. When kids hear that...
by Maury Forman | Aug 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Football season begins this month and even though it is only pre-season, people are already talking about the Seahawks repeating their championship season. But as you well know, they won’t get there by resting on their laurels. Every team in the league looks for a...
by Maury Forman | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
July is my favorite month of the year and not just because it’s the month that I was born (It’s the 22nd in case you were wondering). It’s also my favorite because it is the month we celebrate our nation’s creation of the Declaration of Independence. It is this...
by Maury Forman | Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s been exactly a year since an oversized truck knocked out a section of the Skagit River Bridge, an event nobody, of course, saw coming. During that year there have been other “disasters” both large and small in Washington that have affected the livability and...
