It has been a few days since the most recent Steering Committee meeting on June 22, but something that keynote speaker Bruce Katz said at the Steering Committee Dinner back on March 9th has continued to resonate with me. When asked...
A group of Cumberland, MD citizens are working together and with the state to preserve the historic Folcks Mill site.
Folcks Mill was the site of a summer 1864 battle in western Maryland, between Confederate General John McCausland and Union...
206 years ago, a column of British and colonial troops led by British general Edward Braddock and colonial major, George Washington, queued up in what became the city of Cumberland, Maryland and marched northwest through a strategic...
Nearly ten years ago, citizens around the world found themselves glued to their television sets as they watched the destruction that resulted from a carefully planned attack against the United States by al Qaeda. Four jet liners were hijacked by...
On March 30th, Spike TV debuted its newest reality series Coal. The series features a West Virginian mine, Colbat Coal Corporation. After the premier episode, which drew 6 million viewers, the Mine Safety and Health Administration cited Colbat...
In little more than 170 years, Germanys Ruhr Valley saw the rise and fall of an entire industry. With high unemployment and idle factories, the...
The Power of 32 region shares a common history and industrial past, along with a common workforce that travels across the 32 counties for work a quarter of our workforce lives in one county and works in...