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12 business, community leaders appointed to new West End Opportunity Partnership board | News

By Dorothea 3 months ago

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Twelve business and community leaders are among the first appointees making up a board that will oversee a partnership designed to bring new life to west Louisville.

Among the members are Louisville Urban League President and CEO, Sadiqa Reynolds, Metro Council President David James, and Republic Bank CEO Steve Trager.



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Twelve business and community leaders are among the first appointees making up a board that will oversee a partnership designed to bring new life to west Louisville.


Other members include:

  • J. Michael Brown, Governor’s Executive Cabinet secretary
  • Jeana Dunlap, urbanist and strategic advisor representing the NAACP
  • DeVone Holt, vice president of external affairs at Goodwill of Kentucky, representing One West
  • Christina Shadle, director of investment at the Louisville Urban League
  • Jennifer Hancock, CEO of Volunteers of America
  • David Kaplan, attorney at Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP
  • Dr. Dawn Wade, chief strategy officer at NIMBUS, president
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Dubuque economy, business leaders come together to reject proposal to downgrade county to micropolitan area

By Dorothea 6 months ago

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) – Members of Dubuque’s leading business and economy organizations said downgrading the county from a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) area to a micropolitan area would “wipe it off the map.”

That is why they are coming together to send a strong and consistent message to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asking it to reject the proposal. That proposal states that MSAs should have a population of 100,000. The current threshold is 50,000.

“This is a decision that is based solely on data and the committee acknowledges that they do not consider economic development or financial impact,” Molly Grover, CEO of the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce, said. “There are so many questions surrounding this.”

Grover mentioned her team and public and private partners have already provided the OMB with their concerns regarding the proposal. She said they have also sent alerts to business owners in

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Brexit a bigger headache for business leaders than pandemic

By Dorothea 7 months ago


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Brexit represents a bigger challenge to most UK businesses than the Covid-19 pandemic, as additional paperwork, unexpected costs and new regulatory requirements make life more difficult than temporary lockdowns.

Business leaders have told City A.M. that Brexit is currently their number one headache, despite the government’s pledge that the UK-EU trade deal that was agreed at the end of December would result in pain-free trade with the EU, given the agreement’s zero tariff and zero quota regime.

In fact, many business leaders said Brexit is a much bigger problem for their business than the economic impact of Covid-19.

Read more: UK exports via sea to EU down 68 per cent since end of Brexit transition

Negative outlook

The UK’s five biggest business groups recently warned the government that companies face “significant disruption” if post-Brexit conditions are not eased.

The CBI, the Institute of Directors, Make

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Meet Six Leaders from the Newsweek Expert Forum

By Dorothea 8 months ago

For more than 80 years, Newsweek has kept readers informed about what is happening in the world. Now Newsweek Expert Forum is bringing together innovative thinkers and industry leaders to share their insights on international issues, technology, business, culture and politics.

Expert Forum members have opportunities to build relationships and shape public opinion — connecting with peers from complementary fields and getting their ideas in front of a wide audience on Newsweek.com.

Meet six leaders from the Newsweek Expert Forum, and learn more about becoming a member.

Andrew Raupp, Founder, STEM.org

Andrew Raupp is an entrepreneur and educational leader. In 2001, he founded STEM.org, an educational research and credentialing organization that has played a key role in developing and growing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education movement. The organization has worked with more than 140,000 pre-K to twelfth-grade students and 14,000 educators worldwide to date. Andrew and

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