Keynote speakers included; Wendell Cox, Michael Young and Ronald Bailey, Focused on issues related to the Brookings Report “Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania”. http://www.demographia.com/dwc-sketch.htm http://www.michaelyoungresearch.com/homepage.php http://www.renewpa.org/ … [Read more...]

Keynote speaker, Tom Daniels, of the University of Pennsylvania. Focus was on the Future of Agriculture in Westmoreland County. Workshop facilitated by Kevin Schmidt and Bob Wagner of the American Farmland Trust. http://www.design.upenn.edu/new/cplan/facultybio.php?fid=97 … [Read more...]

Keynote speaker Neal Peirce, a foremost writer, among American journalists, on metropolitan regions — their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. http://citistates.com/assocspeakers/n_peirce.html … [Read more...]