Growing MSAs for Business

By Jami Gibson Area Development Online recently released their “Leading Locations of 2013,” a ranked list of 380 MSAs, to determine the leading cities/regions that are recovering from the recession the quickest based on economic and workforce data. These Top 10 MSAs...

Apps to Lose Weight and Stay Healthy

By Anu Tandukar In today’s busy world, people barely get time to take care of themselves. Also, it was not until I got sick a few months ago, that I realized the importance of staying healthy and understood why they say, “Health is wealth.” From that point on, I had...

From the American Dream to the Nepali Dream

By Vidhan Rana Thousands of Nepali eighteen and nineteen-year-olds board planes from Kathmandu for the United States to pursue their dream of further education in the land of opportunities. Many have dreams of building a life there – to live the ‘American Dream’. Some...

Predicting the Future

By Sailesh Dhungana Imagine having knowledge about the future. Let’s say that you know which team will win a baseball game that has not been played yet. You can place high-stake bets on it and get handsome rewards when the team wins. Knowledge about the future is a...

Does Place Matter?

By Dean Whittaker For those of us in the economic development profession, we like to think that place matters. And, I would argue that it does. According to David Houle, in his TEDx Pittsburgh and TEDx Sarasota talks, place shapes who we are. To a degree, it shapes...