Posted: January 1, 2017
What does the opioid epidemic have to do with the election? Why do some community planners go to great lengths to engage their citizenry? What can the maker movement do for manufacturing? These questions are among those answered in news stories we curate for you on our social media feeds. If you haven't followed the Northeast Center on social media yet, here is a sampling of what you're missing.
- Research by Penn State's Shannon Monnat shows that Trump over performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates (Washington Post, 12/9/16).
- Five ways the Maker Movement can help catalyze a manufacturing renaissance (Brookings Institution, 1/4/2017)
- Policy in Action: Bringing a Grocery Store to East Baltimore (blog post from Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, 11/29/2016)
- Why Bother with Community Engagement? (a blog post about research findings from the American Planning Association, 12/4/2016)
- Big Farms Are Getting Bigger And Most Small Farms Aren't Really Farms At All (fivethirtyeight.com, 11/17/2016)
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