Some civic and government types looked a lot like deer caught in the headlights during ETSU’s session on regionalism earlier this month. Hearing the CEO of the region’s largest industry say, “The reality is, the way we’re configured today, it’s… Read More ›
Reunifying the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol region to one Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status picked up momentum last month. The reasoning for the change is based on the reality that the region is one economic marketplace and needs single MSA status in today’s data-driven… Read More ›
The April data update from the National Association of Counties is the good, the bad and the ugly about bridges. Here in Northeast Tennessee, there are 1,473 bridges that’s the good. It’s hard to get around without bridges. The bad… Read More ›
A great, and quick, way to keep tabs on which Tri-Cities labor market sectors are growing and which are contracting is the year-over-year tracking by Middle Tennessee State University’s heat charts. January’s tracking shows seven of the Kingsport-Bristol Metropolitan Statistical… Read More ›