Earlier this month, R. Glenn Williamson, founder and CEO of the Canada Arizona Business Council (CABC), spoke to the ECoNA Advisory Council about the unique relationship between Arizona and Canada and the pressures it is currently facing. For northern Arizona, the relationship is significant. Canadian companies employ more than 300 people in Coconino, Navajo, and […]
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Dr. Eric Heiser has been an educator for more than 20 years, the past three as the President of Coconino Community College. We talked with him about growing up in Wyoming, the continued value of a college education, and the $100 million construction bond CCC has put on the ballot for November. Q: Do you […]
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When ECoNA released its 5-year Strategic Plan in 2023, it confirmed something many of us already knew: northern Arizona is facing a critical shortage of workforce housing. During the decade leading up to the plan, the average price of a single family home in our region soared – by as much as 294%, depending on […]
Read MoreWith the opening of its Downtown Connection Center (DCC) earlier this month and major service enhancements scheduled to start on July 27, Mountain Line, Flagstaff’s public transit system, is entering a new era. The two-story, 21,000-square-foot DCC, located on Phoenix Avenue, is now the home of the transit systems’ customer service, administrative, and operations support teams, and streamlines […]
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My heart sank as I read the article in the Wall Street Journal. My alma mater, the Macomb campus of Western Illinois University, was featured as an example of America’s new “rust belt” – once-booming college towns now struggling because of dwindling enrollment rates. In the past 15 years, enrollment has dropped by 47 percent, and the bustling […]
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