It’s Your Business: Private, Public and Nonprofit Collaboration Needed for Economic Vitality
5 May 2023
News
Our community should grow …. or limit growth.
The private sector is good … or bad.
Government is the source of many problems … or should fix everything.
Our public discourse is often divided along lines like these. And in our community, it’s easy to live or work in one realm without encountering people outside of our day-to-day lives. It’s easy to fall into one school of thought.
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