County starts strategic planning
the Coos County Board of Commissioners (BOC) adopted a planning process to respond to anticipated future reductions in County revenue.
Read Morethe Coos County Board of Commissioners (BOC) adopted a planning process to respond to anticipated future reductions in County revenue.
Read MoreI think the citizens are going to have to figure this out with or without the commission before it is too late.
Read MoreCurry County could be the first test of a new law giving the governor the power to work with county officials to impose local taxes
Read More“community wealth building” is an explicit strategy to democratize the ownership of wealth from the ground up. With traditional regulatory and tax-and-spend approaches faltering at every level, the notion that we should create new democratic economic institutions to build wealth, community by community,
Read MoreThe argument is always that governments are wasteful and employees are lazy but even the most anti government members of the structure committee acknowledge that Coos County has been cut to the bone and that staff do more than their fair share of work so how would privatizing these services and adding profit to the cost of payroll burden improve services to the taxpayer?
Read MoreUnemployment stands at 12.7% and while lower than neighboring Curry and Douglas counties, the poverty rate of 15.6% is two points higher. Is the Port of Coos Bay keeping everyone poor?
Read MoreThese past few weeks have been both exhausting and exhilirating for me winding through the myriad benefits and bizarre regulatory barriers to wide scale distributed energy and ultimately local sustainability. As winter...
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