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, […]

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 12^th year of training mid-career professionals to think regionally about a variety of […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Sunday, May 10th, 2020

Happy Mother’s Day!!

We asked the Pattern team, “What does your mother mean to you?”

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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 […]

Sunday, April 26th, 2020

I read an article recently that referred to what we’re going through now as The Great Pause – a rare opportunity to be thrown from the hamster wheel of busyness where we’re constantly running, to be […]

Sunday, April 19th, 2020

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

Dear Members of the Hospitals Staff of the Hudson Valley,

Although I can no longer experience first hand what each and every one of you is going through every day, I have a […]