Michael Sauers October 3, 2025 Bloomsburg already has some key assets that are helpful for developing a vibrant and successful downtown. To begin, the Town of Bloomsburg has three exits off a busy interstate highway. While none of these channel traffic directly into...
Michael Sauers September 20, 2025 When the value or worth of an idea is counter to the interests of the majority, the idea has to be sequestered into muddy waters. Secrecy! Intimidation! Denial! This post is about strategies that government and industry uses to limit...
Conservation to Industrial Presented by Thomas Russell Published 9/14/2025 My name is Tom Russell and I am a 35 year resident of Packer Township. My family lives in the Hollow just downstream from the Tamaqua Area Water Authority spillway. Quakake, as my Mom and Dad...
Michael Sauers August 2, 2025 The Greater Hazleton Area is not the only "sacrifice area". There are hundreds of them spread across the U.S.A. Above and below ground coal mining with all of its negative consequences (too numerous to list, do some research) started the...
Michael Sauers July 3, 2025 It is a given that an investment in equitable education is by far the best economic development tool. Think-tanks, corporations, universities and governments proclaim this through countless studies. It is the foundation and surpasses...
Michael Sauers June 6, 2025 For fifty years I have been supporting communities who find themselves being pressured by the Federal Government, State Government, Economic Development Agencies (CANDO, SEDCO, Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance) and Proposing Industries to...
Michael Sauers May 21, 2025 A few years ago, Congressman Dan Meuser met with "community leaders" at a gathering hosted by Bloomsburg University (Commonwealth University). The topic was the future of economic/community development, education/training and the federal...
Michael Sauers February 8, 2025 Governor Shapiro's budget address muddied the waters as it skirted significant areas of importance and was an attempt at personal aggrandizement. As often happens, it resembled a campaign speech. Mr. Shapiro is running for President....
Michael Sauers January 30, 2025 According to Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (PDCED) and a very competitive Governor Shapiro, Pennsylvania recently came out on top in a multi-state economic development battle. The prize is landing a...
To Governor Josh Shapiro and State Legislators Campaign Created and Written by Karen Feridun Posted by Mike Sauers October 28, 2004 We, the undersigned, call on you to begin a rapid phase out of fracking in Pennsylvania. The climate clock we installed in the Capitol...
Written/Posted by Drew Magill June 13, 2024 Take a dying coal town with hundreds of unemployed miners, thousands of acres of abandoned mine lands and all the streams polluted by acid mine drainage. Have a self serving chamber of commerce form an economic development...
Michael Sauers April 8,2024 Part 2 The scenarios painted in Part 1 were not unique to Hazleton. No, these same disastrous and ill-fated economic development plans, along with coal mining, plagued all of Northeastern Pennsylvania. While the names changed the results...