Category: Articles
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Join the Southern WV Create WV Summit and Enjoy an Off-Broadway Play
What’s better than talking about stimulating creativity in West Virginia and then seeing it in action? On Friday, April 10, join host group “Create Mercer” and the statewide Create WV team at the RiffRaff Arts Collective in downtown Princeton, WV, for an afternoon and evening of innovative culture and economic/community growth discussion. The Southern WV Create…
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West Virginia Seen Through a New Friend’s Set of Eyes – Mayra Ruiz
A guest post by Mayra Ruiz-McPherson The other day, I read with much interest Justin Siebert’s June 28, 2008 blog post entitled “Marketing a State – Online Reputation Management for West Virginia.” Unlike Create West Virginia’s own Jeff James and Wheeling’s own Justin – both West Virginians who returned to the state after years of…
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Disrupt ED
I have been listening, talking, reading and writing…with the State Dept. of Education about the Innovation Zone legislation we anticipate being introduced during the 2009 legislativev session. I thought that you might be interested in the lastest draft of the legislation and some comments from Dr. Johnson regarding the draft. Download Innovationzonedraft2 Download Draft2Comments Recently,…
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The Link Between Early Childhood Education and Economic Development
Although it seems everything under the sun is couched in “economic development” and “shovel ready” terms these days, a new report by Marshall University makes a compelling connection between the success of a region’s early childhood education and its economic prosperity. “It is very much an economic development program,” said Marshall University economist Cal Kent, who…
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Happy Martin Luther King Day!
The historic inauguration of Barack Obama reinforces so much of what America is about, or has claimed to be about but hadn’t yet fulfilled. It certainly reminds us of the power of impossible dreams. Who just a year ago would have predicted an African American with a name like Barack Obama becoming president of the…
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Morgan County Taking a Music ‘Census’
There is always something creative brewing in Morgan County: BERKELEY SPRINGS, WV —- As part of Back To Our Roots, its yearlong celebration of American roots arts, the Morgan Arts Council (MAC) of Berkeley Springs is conducting a local Music Census. An original census form has been developed and is available to anyone who lives…
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Staying Accountable to Minority Communities Helps All of WV
Recently Create WV had the pleasure of participating in the NAACP Economic Development forum at Grace Bible Church on the West Side of Charleston. Reverend Matthew Watts, a “Creative Cone” award winner at the 2008 Create WV Conference, lead the discussion that centered on WV Senate Bill No. 573, which is “relating to providing a procedure for the economic…
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Turning the Lights On for Sustainability
The team at LightsOn! West Virginia delivered a presentation on how they transformed formerly empty The Bellann building in Oak Hill into a (soon) LEED-certified office building. Their case study is a glimpse into the exciting potential for redeveloping existing (and often empty) buildings in small towns throughout West Virginia. Great things are happening in…
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West Virginia Welcomes a New Creative Misfit
OK, so there are those who dabble in social networking and media. And then there are those who live social networking and media, blazing new trails and teaching the rest of us about its potential as they go. The latter describes Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, a wonderful new addition to the creative talent base here in West…
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Education, Not Taxes, Biggest Economic Issue in Arizona
What issue do you tend to hear most about in the media as it relates to business leaders’ top agenda items? More often than not, it seems like taxes and tax incentives dominate the discussion. However, as the economy shifts towards a more knowledge-based foundation, talent, not taxes, becomes a larger issue.A recent legislative priorities…