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In the new West, outdoor recreation-based economies are often the answer to what will become of places where the current economy is based on fossil fuel extraction. Vail is a singular case study because here...
We sell eggs and maple syrup from Windswept Maples Farm in our Miles Smith Farm store, so I thought visiting there would be fun. Their place, which is in Loudon, is only eight miles from ours.Larry and Melissa Moore make maple products for wholesale...
Valley Voices In 1995, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore faced a major problem. Pew Research surveys revealed that only about 21% of Americans trusted their government to do the right thing. Norman Bowles The Clinton White House created the vice president’s Task Force on Reinventing Government (also known as National Performance Review) and tasked it with improving government agency responsiveness to the public. By the end of Clinton’s two terms, public trust polls had risen to 38% . As a career federal senior executive, I served as a team leader at National Performance Review for 14 months. One job was to conduct focus groups of randomly selected career federal senior executives from Washington, D.C., and around the country to understand whether they accepted any level of responsibility for the public’s dismal faith in government.