A More Perfect Union
Sunday, July 5th, 2020
I worked long and hard trying to capture the moment of this July 4th. Instead, I offer a quote from historian Jon Meacham:
“To know what has come before us is to be armed against despair. If […]
Thinking Regionally
Sunday, June 28th, 2020
When Governor Cuomo announced the phased reopening plan for New York State in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of New Yorkers flocked to the Regional UnPause Dashboard to check the status of the metrics […]
Fathers Day
Sunday, June 21st, 2020
Happy Father’s Day!!
We asked the Pattern team, “What does your father mean to you?”
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Affordable Housing Development IS Economic Development
Sunday, June 14th, 2020
This is my third blog in a series on housing and real estate. Today I am providing a snapshot of how housing is intrinsically linked to economic development. The goal is for communities, residents, businesses leaders, […]
Pattern Fellows’ Graduation Day – Back to the Beginning
Sunday, June 7th, 2020
It was about a year ago when Pattern was preparing for the next class of Fellows. The Pattern Fellows Program had completed its 12th year of training mid-career professionals to think regionally about a variety of […]
Housing and the Essential Worker: People We Count on Every Day
Sunday, May 31st, 2020
Since the middle of March, a fairly, new term became part of our everyday language – the Essential Workers. Who are these people? What is essential? Do we know any of these people? Where do they […]
Memorial Day Weekend 2020 – A Visit to Cape Cod in the Age of COVID
Sunday, May 24th, 2020
(This is mostly true)
You and your family have been waiting to head to the Cape since last fall. You are lucky enough to have purchased a small cottage near P-Town. […]
Impacts of COVID-19 on the Real Estate Market
Sunday, May 17th, 2020
There is a line in the movie, Draft Day, “We live in a different world than we did 30 seconds ago”. This could not be further from the truth than it is today. The region was […]
Mother’s Day 2020
Sunday, May 10th, 2020
Happy Mother’s Day!!
We asked the Pattern team, “What does your mother mean to you?”
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Ringing Alarm Bells: Food Security
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020
As America weighs the reopening of our economy against the public health risks of doing so, another related issue is ringing alarm bells: food security. Even prior to COVID-19 millions of Americans faced food insecurity each […]