by Maury Forman | May 19, 2020 | Entrepreneurs
More than 33 million workers have filed for unemployment since the COVID-19 virus began. Many more don’t know if or when they will be able to return to their old jobs. They are waiting with great anticipation for a ground hog to poke his head out and tell us we won’t...
by Maury Forman | Aug 27, 2019 | Disaster Planning
This past week I started watching Season 3 of the award-winning Netflix hit Stranger Things, an American science fiction horror flick. It’s the story of a small rural town in Indiana where a laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the government but...
by Maury Forman | Jul 1, 2019 | Economic Development
I love July. I love the warm weather, the weekend barbecues, watching the Seattle Mariners valiantly battle for last place, and because I celebrate another year of being born (it’s the 22nd, in case you’re wondering or are in a shopping mood). But I really love this...
by Maury Forman | May 31, 2019 | Rural Development
During my 26-year career in economic development, I got to dabble and later indulge in my secret desire to be a writer. Not a writer of pulp fiction about economic developers lurking in dank alleyways dealing in black market recruitments mind you, but a legitimate...
by Maury Forman | May 1, 2019 | Entrepreneurs
Our lifetimes are filled with firsts that are forever etched in our memories. Who doesn’t remember their first kiss, first car or first job? Some of these memories are so fresh that we use them as the answers to our security questions. If you’re an entrepreneur,...