I love this cold weather. Bring it on, baby! How cold did it get last night? ‘Twas -19 F at around sunrise this morning, according to the Carleton College Weather…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Our Locally Grown podcast guests this week included (center) Ward 2 City Councilor Scott Davis and (right) Erin Mayberry, Recreation Coordinator for the Community Services Division at the Northfield Public…
Locally Grown and the Nfld News have decided to make this press release public today. A memo to the Nfld News staff from Ruth Huckstable, VP of Development for Huckstable…
We’ve started inviting a variety of community leaders to submit commentary pieces here on Locally Grown. The first to respond is former Dundas mayor Glenn Switzer, co-owner of Switzer’s Nursery…
A week ago, Adam Gurno blogged this piece on N.org: Southgate Cinema Donates Rentals, Gains Lobby. Today’s Northfield News has a story titled Southgate Cinema, videos in new hands detailing…
We’ve turned the “email this” and “susbcribe to comments” features back on, as our web host has informed us that the date glitch from yesterday was a problem they caused.…
The Intelligent Community Forum will be announcing its Most Intelligent Community of the Year award in May. The Intelligent Community list isn’t based on Ph.D’s per capita; if it were,
Significantly, there are no American cities among the finalists. In the last five years only three American cities have even been nominated, and we’ve never gotten top honors. Rightfully so; we’re way behind the curve in the New Global Economy despite having pretty much invented it.
What’s going on here?
According to the ICF, in the broadband economy, “adaptability outweighs legacy, skills rather than resources are the keys to the future, and innovation, not location, creates a competitive advantage.” Sounds good: Creative Class plus tech infrastructure equals economic strength.
I wish Northfield had a good technological infrastructure. We’re working on it, but there’s a lot of catching up to do. I’m preparing a broadband/tech primer which I’ll probably present to the EDA in February, and when I have that together, I’ll post it here as well, to provide some definitions and an overview of the issue.
This year’s Intelligent Community finalists are:
We’ve temporarily disabled the “email this to a friend” and “subscribe to coments” features to see if they’re causing some funny stuff with the time and date functions. Apologies for…
Two months ago, I never really thought about ethanol. Now, thanks to Progressive Rail’s efforts to get an ethanol plant built in Bridgewater Township, I’m reading everything on the subject…