Erie Next: Progress didn't stop in 2020, plus what to watch in 2021
Conversations about equality and racial justice. Like the rest of the nation and world, Erie County was affected by all of those events in 2020, and they understandably wrested attention and energy away from the region’s renaissance movement. But that does not mean the momentum forged over the past few years — aimed at bringing improved leadership and transformational change to the region and created within Erie’s civic and political landscape — has disappeared. “In a normal year, any one of those things would have been a major conversation, let alone three,” James Grunke, CEO ...