How to Fish Sustainably

So Much For Cuban Economic Reform
The Communist Party affirms that 'central planning and not the market will be supreme. With his characteristic intellectual wit, Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner defines Communism as "the time countries waste between Capitalism and capitalism." By this account, the Cuban government is now in its 52nd year of wasted time waiting for prosperity. Much has been made of economic reforms promised by Raúl Castro, including by the Cuban president himself. "We can either rectify the situation,"...

Economic Development Failure: LM Windpower Laying off 150 in Grand Forks
Over and over you see this. The government, city, state and federal throw all kinds of money into a private business and as soon as the free money quits flowing freely they’re laying off people. LM Wind Power will lay off about 150 workers at its Grand Forks Manufacturing facility, the company announced today. According to a news release, the company is responding to the “dramatic reduction” in Wind Turbine installations in the U.S. in 2010 and “prolonged uncertainty̶...

Commerce Release: Perceptis Inc.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - January 12, 2010 - The South Carolina Department of Commerce, the Greenville Area Development Corporation and the Upstate Alliance today announced that Perceptis Inc., a leading provider of help desk and customer support services to the Higher Education market, will open a new facility in Greenville County. Over the next five years, the company expects to invest $1.125 million in the new facility and create 200 new jobs. “Since this company’s founding, Pe...

Malloy has plenty of new ideas, not enough dollars
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's transition team presented more than 1,800 pages worth of policy recommendations Monday, including sweeping proposals to overhaul education funding, institute universal pre-kindergarten, find new transportation revenues and end the regional Tourism district system. And while Malloy thanked his team's Policy Committee for developing a report that offers guidance his administration will use over the next four years, he reminded members that these goals--though valuable--w...

PA DCED Secretary Appoints Recovery Plan Coordinator for Harrisburg
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Austin Burke today named a team, led by the Novak Consulting Group, to be the coordinator for developing and implementing a recovery plan for the City of Harrisburg. The team will begin work immediately. Novak will be supported by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals assigned to address Harrisburg's financial situation. It will include Bob O'Donnell of O'Donnell...

Ogdensburg seeks input on city's housing, development needs
OGDENSBURG — The city will look for public help in the development of an application for a Community Development Block Grant for the city's housing program. On Monday, the City Council decided to set a public hearing for 7 p.m. Jan. 24 at City Hall to provide the public with information on the grant application and to allow the public to participate in its development. "The first step is to open it up and ask and identify what the needs are," said J. Justin Woods, director of plannin...

Developments run gamut of progress in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH Construction of the $78 million courts complex downtown is under way and on schedule. Businesses in a Churchland shopping center are moving to make way for a Harris Teeter. And it's back to the drawing board for a large, vacant parcel in Midtown that City Officials had hoped to redevelop years ago. The three sites reflect the spectrum of progress for more than a dozen of the city's highest-profile developments. Some are moving through the planning stages or are near completion; others...

Denver metro chamber, other groups, urge civility among elected officials
Some lawmakers and pundits greeted a Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce request for civility with politeness, but said they planned to be heard when they needed to be heard. Rep. Edward Casso speaks out against Gov. Bill Ritter's Veto of a labor bill durin ga 2009 rally. The Commerce City Democrat believes civility pledges stifle free Speech. (The Associated Press) “I would not be doing my job if I didn’t forcefully advocate for my district or the people of Colorado, from my perspective,...

Opposition develops against Chesapeake pool
CHESAPEAKE The City Council is losing its enthusiasm for building a public pool complex as part of a massive renovation of the city's largest park. It would be the city's first public pool, and a centerpiece of the $28 million project at City Park, which includes an activity center and indoor and outdoor Tennis courts. L ast week, three Council Members - Mayor Alan Krasnoff, Councilwoman Suzy Kelly and Councilman Scott Matheson - said they had concerns about the city's project taking away from p...

Duly Noted
Bureaucracy, Democracy and Their Conflict. Ever since the 18th century, many Democrats or Progressives have believed that the public-realm aspects of the problems of man and society can be solved by providing good government. Numerous theories and not a few experiments -- some of these soared while others crashed -- have attempted to find practical responses to the dilemmas posed by their Thesis. In our time, albeit under different labels, two basic approaches that reach back to that tradition c...

NJ Assembly Approves Tax Credit for Film Production
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The New Jersey Legislature has approved a measure to expand New Jersey’s Tax Credit program for film and digital media production. The bill was approved by both houses on Monday and now goes to Gov. Chris Christie. The measure is part of the “Back to Work NJ” Economic Development package being pushed by Democrats in the Legislature. The Tax Credit program was suspended last year as Christie worked to close an $11 billion Budget Deficit. Proponents say...

Jerry Brown's budget earns business leaders' raves
They like it, they really like it. That's the early reaction to Gov. Jerry Brown 's Budget from Bay Area business leaders, Economists and a labor representative I spoke to on Tuesday. The Governor gets an A+ for "honesty" and for generally grabbing the bull by the horns, even on taxes. Concerns were expressed on the proposed elimination of state redevelopment and enterprise zone funding, and a requirement that corporations use a "single sales factor," based on their actual sales in California...

Corporation buys old Lyons Falls mill
LYONS FALLS — After nearly three years of consideration, the Lewis County Development Corp. has purchased a former paper mill here for redevelopment as a business park. The nonprofit corporation has formed a subsidiary, Black Moose Development LLC, through which it will purchase and develop 10 acres of the 18-acre mill parcel off Center Street. And Black Moose recently bought the land for $150,000 from Michael R. Johnson and Johnson Industries Inc., according to documents filed Monday in...

Audit details ex-Humboldt official's fiscal misdeeds
Humboldt's former city administrator faces up to 15 years in Prison for her role in the misappropriation of more than $135,000 of Taxpayer money, details of which were outlined Tuesday in a state audit. The majority of the money came from the Mid Iowa Growth Partnership, a collaborative Economic Development organization in which former Humboldt administrator Lorie Bennett represented the city while also working as the partnership's treasurer. ...

Senate President Brandon Shaffers remarks
Senate President Brandon Shaffer this morning told his colleagues that “this Legislature will make the tough choices necessary to put Coloradans back to work, create jobs and expand our economy.” Brandon Shaffer, Senate President Shaffer, D-Longmont, emphasized the importance of a state commitment to education as part of that effort. The quality of our work today will determine how fast we recover and the direction for our state for the next century. And the area where we have the ...

Pr. William perseveres despite economic slump
Despite being faced with one of the longest and deepest economic Recessions in the nation's history and a Housing Market that went from boom to bust, Prince William County prospered last year, Chairman Corey A. Stewart said Tuesday. During his annual state of the county address Stewart looked back at the county's triumphs and the strides officials made to help Prince William weather the economic downturn. "My fellow citizens, history continues to test our nation ... a nation which borrows so he...

Voinovich jobs director Jakeway rumored to return to run Kasich's JobsOhio?
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - If his selections to date for cabinet members and Staffers is any indication of what pool of talent Ohio Gov. John Kasich likes to swim in, the return of Voinovich jobs department director Donald E. Jakeway not only comes as no surprise but makes perfect sense. Kasich first dipped into the pool of former Voinovich cabinet directors when he named Jerry Wray to again take the reigns at the Ohio Dept. of Transportation. Continuing on this tact, a source told CGE that Jakeway ...

Ritchie to lead Senate ag panel
The north country will keep its agricultural representation in the state Senate. State Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, was appointed Tuesday as chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, a post her predecessor also held. Darrel J. Aubertine, a Dairy Farmer whom she beat in the November Elections, was nominated as chairman of the State Department of Agriculture and Markets. The move, north country agriculture officials said, was just the latest in a growing trend of high-rankin...

For $1, John Kasich hires private help to spur Ohio job creation
from The Columbus Dispatch A prominent Venture Capitalist from Silicon Valley has agreed to run the Ohio Department of Development essentially free to help transition it to a private jobs organization, Gov.-elect John Kasich plans to announce today. Mark Kvamme, a partner at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, Calif., will serve as department director on an interim basis for $1 for a period of months and help start the nonprofit JobsOhio, Kasich said yesterday. Privatizing the state’s develo...

Solar company that got $58M leaving Massachusetts
A Solar Panel manufacturer that received $58 million in state aid in 2007 to open a factory at a former Massachusetts Military Base is closing the plant and laying off 800 workers. Evergreen Solar Inc. announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Devens plant by the end of the 2011 First Quarter. Gov. Deval Patrick had heralded Evergreen as key to the state's economic future in Clean Energy. Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki said the administration is disappointed and will work to recove...

Schoesler to continue on budget, agriculture committees
The 2011 legislative session began today with Sen. Mark Schoesler again serving on the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Agriculture and Rural Economic Development Committee. Schoesler will have a more prominent role on the Budget committee than before, and the Republican from Ritzville, who is starting his 19th session, figures to draw from his significant experience at the Capitol in his new capacity. “Senator [Joseph] Zarelli, the Republican leader on the Budget committee, ...

Jerry Brown's budget earns business leaders' raves
They like it, they really like it. That's the early reaction to Gov. Jerry Brown 's Budget from Bay Area business leaders, Economists and a labor representative I spoke to on Tuesday. The Governor gets an A+ for "honesty" and for generally grabbing the bull by the horns, even on taxes. Concerns were expressed on the proposed elimination of state redevelopment and enterprise zone funding, and a requirement that corporations use a "single sales factor," based on their actual sales in California...

Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Jan. 8, 2011. Gov. Scott Walker has promised the state 250,000 more jobs by the end of First Term. It's a big promise, one that may be hard to fulfill. But Walker is wise to focus on creating smart tax policy, targeted Economic Development programs and an atmosphere conducive to growth. An admirer of fellow Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, Walker has adopted his own version of Thompson's bear-hug, show 'em you love 'em approach to business. His "Wisconsin is open for b...

Hunters Point project moves forward
Environmental groups fighting the Hunters Point shipyard redevelopment project signed a settlement Saturday with San Francisco and the developer, removing a key legal hurdle for the planned new neighborhood of homes, retail, offices and open space. The Sierra Club and the Golden Gate Audubon Society sued Florida developer Lennar Urban, the city and the city's redevelopment agency in September, arguing that a proposed bridge over the Yosemite Slough would irreparably harm the shoreline and wild...

The Wealthy As An Object of Disdain.
Mark Yzaguirre allows for the existence of un-derserving rich: [I]n a Global Economy, there are very wealthy economic players who didn’t gain their wealth by risking their personal capital or other voluntary business transactions. Trillions of dollars of investment worldwide, including in the US Stock Markets and other investment vehicles that middle-class Americans rely on for their well-being, is provided by sources that didn’t become wealthy via Libertarian means. Jihadist oil barons fro...