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Dec 10, 2010

The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson recently compiled a photographic slideshow of the 30 most dynamic cities in the world using data from Brookings on growth in employment and income. Austin Texas is the only U.S. city to make the cut with the vast majority coming from Asia and Latin America. Montreal is the only other North American city on the list. What do you think of this listing? Is this the best way to measure dynamism?

Dec 10, 2010

Rushern Baker Prince George’s County’s new County Executive and Chuck Bean Executive Director of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington discuss Region Forward at “One Region Moving Forward” the 2010 Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG):

Dec 9, 2010

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker [pictured left] and Nonprofit Roundtable Executive Director Chuck Bean discuss Region Forward at COG Annual Meeting.

Dec 9, 2010

Maintaining a sense of community in light of new investment and lots of new residents can be tricky. In most instances where a neighborhood is severely blighted by high crime poor education appalling housing and inadequate access to health care it can be argued that a functioning community does not exist. In such cases it’s easy to see how investment aimed at improving these indicators will be beneficial for the neighborhood’s current residents as long adequate safeguards are put in place to

Dec 8, 2010

Falls Church Vice Mayor Snyder, who served as TPB Chairman in 2010, wins Scull Award. Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers wins COG's Partnership Award.

Dec 8, 2010

It’s no secret that metro Washington is full of college degrees. In fact it has one of the highest concentrations of college and advanced degrees in the country. Over at Urbanophile there’s a really interesting post complete with graphs and charts comparing the cities and counties with the highest “density of degrees” as well as the growth in the density of degrees relative to population growth in general.

Dec 7, 2010

Metropolitan Washington – made up of the District of Columbia Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland – has about 5.3 million people. It’s one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country that’s not in Texas California or the southeast and its continued growth represents a national and international trend: the rise of global cities .

Dec 6, 2010

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past year or so you know there’s been a lot of talk recently on the deficit. It’s everywhere. And everyone seems to have an idea for how to reduce it. So what does this have to do with RF? Well the panel of experts commissioned by President Obama to look at ways to cut the deficit released its report last week. It contains some of the typically-cited measures – raising the retirement age cuts to social spending tax increases etc. – as well as some not​

Dec 3, 2010

Much of the attention regarding Europe at the moment is undoubtedly focused on the crisis facing some euro-zone countries. However much more positive news is emerging from the continent on the environmental and climate front. As reported at Switchboard European nations have taken the lead at climate talks in Cancun Mexico by making good on their promises to help developing countries reduce their emissions and adapt to some inevitable climate change as laid out in last year’s Copenhagen acco​

Dec 1, 2010

Planners economic development officials policy makers and general enthusiasts have an obsession with lists and rankings of metro areas. That’s the charge from Vincent Valk of Next American City . In “List-o-mania” Valk argues that this obsession is largely insignificant at the megacity level. Whether Los Angeles or Washington is ranked as the country’s most congested area is not likely to be enough of a factor in changing someone’s mind to move to a particular region.