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Inside Our Towns: Tighe Bullock
Evan Sanford catches up with Tighe Bullock, the accountant, lawyer, downtown developer, and construction contractor, on his latest work in Charleston, West Virginia.
HOW-TO MODELS
Bucksport Maine Finds Its Heart & Soul
How can person-to-person democracy be revived? A one-time mill town in coastal Maine is a laboratory for a new approach.
ECONOMIC & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Tighe Bullock is working to building a vibrant, attractive downtown in West Virginia’s capital city.
Revitalizing Charleston, West Virginia Brick by Brick
ECONOMIC & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’
The story of how a company that started in one of these places is now involving people and businesses in another—and why that matters in the next stage of equitable American recovery.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
New Lessons of the New Deal
I was talking with the mayor of a "red state" city about how his community was weathering today's public-health and financial crises.
Economic & Business Development
How a Small Brewery Can Survive COVID-19
A bellwether business category, figuring out how and whether it can survive.
Economic & Business Development
What happens to small companies now?
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Economic & Business Development
Paradise Duluth
Postcard of the old Clyde Iron Works in its prime, via Perfect Duluth Day. As part of the unfolding saga of start-up businesses as the crucial creators of new jobs, and of particular start-ups like craft breweries (along with tech incubators, arts companies, manufacturing “maker spaces,” and others) in bringing life to fringe areas of recovering cities, I talked […]
Economic & Business Development
On National Beer Day, Craft Brewers Improving Water, and Life,
In More Ways than One
Economic & Business Development
Three Ways of Thinking About Fresno (and Why You Should Care)
A beleaguered city shows the path toward revival.
Economic & Business Development
The Hard Road to Making Hard Liquor
A look at a nascent distillery in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley
Economic & Business Development
What the Beer Industry and the Computer Industry Have in Common
They grew up in the same era and, despite some obvious differences, have some surprising parallels.
Economic & Business Development
Pennsylvania’s Beer Economy
Brewers have been perfecting their recipes in this part of the country since the middle of the 19th century.
Economic & Business Development
Ice Cream, Chocolate, Coffee, and Beer
Take ingredients and blend, for small-town synergy.
Economic & Business Development
Beer Porn: The Alchemist Cannery
Going to the source, to find a highly celebrated and nearly unobtainable beer.