Here’s a book that I highly recommend to anyone interested in Local Economic Development Issues:
“Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice” 3rd Edition by Edward J Blakely and Ted K Bradshaw.

This book is one of the required texts for one of my classes this semester here at USC - Policy Planning and Development […]

Here are some of the primary findings of the regional “homeless study” recently completed by a group of researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Major Costs by Service Provider in JUST ONE YEAR:

Washoe County Detention Facility: $757,352
Judicial Systems in Northern Nevada: $1,155,389
Project ReStart: $2,034,330
Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services: $689,113
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center: $1,630,195
Renown […]

About a year and a half ago, the NSBDC, along with several colleagues from the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business, Orvis School of Nursing, Department of Geography, School of Medicine, College of Agriculture and the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies began a “regional homeless” study for Washoe County.  Nearly 800 plus pages […]

Alright, I’ll admit it.  There’s nothing “sexy” about fiscal policy.  There’s a reason why taxes are compared to death when we speak about the “certainties” of life.  Any time one begins to talk about taxes and fiscal policy, most people glaze over.  All they know is that they don’t like them!  Well, unfortunately, or fortunately […]