Archive for May, 2009

California

05.28.09

Joel Kotkin asks: Can California make a comeback? Economic developers here in Texas focus a lot on California. Many companies in Texas, especially in the Dallas and Austin technology sectors, are based in California, so chambers of commerce make numerous …

Talent Attraction

05.16.09

Interesting story about Portland in the Wall Street Journal today called Youth Magnet Cities Hit Midlife Crisis. Conor Dougherty writes: The worst recession in a generation is disrupting migration patterns and overturning lives across the country. Yet, cities like Portland, …

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Brian Kelsey is an Austin-based economic development consultant and former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Economic Development Administration in Washington, DC. Civic Analytics is his blog about data-driven analysis for understanding community and economic trends. Views expressed here are his own.

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