Pedigo, who is also a part-time Great Barrington resident, has worked with dozens of cities and communities around the world on leveraging their assets to meet their challenges.
In this conversation, he speaks with Bill Shein about how approaches to economic development have evolved to focus on broader metrics of community health; that addressing this region's housing challenge is also, at its heart, a workforce development challenge; and what he's learned from working with communities around the world to craft regional strategies that don't dilute what makes individual communities unique.
In this newsletter: Updates on a western Massachusetts hospital system’s data breach; a water company whose problems have outlived generations of regulators; public-records requests aging in place; and a look back at rogue-nation-identification tips first published on Reason Gone Mad in 2006.
This Thursday at the American Museum of Tort Law, a conversation with investigative journalist Mariah Blake about her gripping new book, “They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals”
