OWENSBORO, KY – Twenty years after the Peirce Report recommended striking changes in Owensboro’s operating system in order to seize economic opportunities in the last decades of the 20th century, a new team of urban affairs researchers finds that Owensboro at the start of the 21st century is on a roll. Construction on a new […]
Twenty years ago, in a strikingly perceptive series of articles in the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson concluded that Kentucky’s third largest city had the proven capacity to set and achieve big community goals, but that its path to a stronger economy and better quality of life was impeded by related challenges – […]
OWENSBORO, KY – How have we done in the last 20 years? What’s in store for our city and region? The Citistates Group, supported by a grant from the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro, is updating its 1991 comprehensive analysis of Owensboro-Daviess County, conducting interviews and research to lay out a fresh path to success […]