BILL FULTON: California — that big blue state — is also the epicenter of a peculiar form of direct democracy: ballot-box zoning. With the constitution assuring easy access to the ballot, environmentalists, disgruntled citizens, and developers alike swamp the ballot, seeking the end-run around local elected officials. Now, the ballot-box zoning idea may be crossing [...]
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Special Report
Authors
Neal Peirce Curtis Johnson Farley Peters Commentaries on the Theme
William Stafford
William Hudnut
Bill Barnes
Ian Scott
Mary Newsom
David Warm
Mark Pisano
Kathryn Foster
Neal Peirce
OPEN INNOVATION – - ITS PLACE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
BILL FULTON: The recent trend toward “open innovation” in corporate America is changing the way communities approach economic development policy. In fact, it’s making public policy on economic development more important than ever because prosperity emerges from the interaction. Open innovation — a term coined by Harvard professor Henry William Chesbrough — requires a more [...]