Greater Reno-Tahoe: RGJ Columns

2012-01-09

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, January 8, 2012
As the incoming CEO of EDAWN, I am excited by the potential of this community and believe that together we can improve the overall economy and quality of life here in the years ahead.

2011-10-05

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, October 10, 2011
Economic development is a team sport. Like sports there are variables including strategy, practice, recruiting and retention of key players, skill, experience, effort and competitors. “Moneyball” is a current top-grossing motion picture about the business of major league baseball that contains parallels.

2011-09-12

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, September 11, 2011
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article that reported on findings from a Citibank survey, 9 out of 10 small business owners are concerned the nation could slip back into a recession, although they are coping with these uncertain economic conditions.

2011-08-15

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) closed its fiscal year June 30, 2011. As a public/private entity, we offer an annual year-end-economic development report that resulted in 17 new or locally expanding companies, including five headquarters, 670 new jobs and a one-year economic impact of $134 million. There’s more to the story than the numbers represent.

2011-07-10

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, July 10, 2011
Site consultants representing companies looking for new or additional business locations, facilitate about a third of economic development deals in the U.S. The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) has spent 29 years developing relationships with these intermediaries to ensure northern Nevada is on their short list for potential locations.

2011-06-13

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette Journal for Sunday, June 12, 2011
Beyond the headlines commanded by higher profile legislative actions, a bill, AB449, was passed Monday. The bill that “revises provisions relating to economic development,” has great potential depending upon interpretation and implementation.

2011-05-09

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, May 8, 2011
When President Obama visited Greater Reno-Tahoe for a town hall meeting at ElectraTherm many people realized the value of that global spotlight on our region.

2011-04-12

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, April 10, 2011
What are we now and what do we want to become as an economic region? One of those is an important question and the other is a critical answer.

2011-03-13

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, March 13, 2011
In 2004-05 the citizen-based leadership of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) saw our region’s explosive growth and asked if we were creating the kind of place we would want to live in five to 10 years from that point

2011-02-14

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, February 13, 2011
A frequent question in conversations concerning economic development efforts is, “What does this community want to be when it grows up?”

2010-09-20

EDAWN Column for the Reno Gazette-Journal for Sunday, September 19, 2010
Target2010 is a community-based economic development plan that was spearheaded by the citizen-based leadership of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) in 2004-2005. The region was growing rapidly and leaders wanted quality of life improved – good jobs, not just more jobs.

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