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Building One Pennsylvania: Statewide Summit On Regional Opportunity July 16
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10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania an other partners are hosting a statewide summit on regional opportunity called Building One Pennsylvania on July 16 at the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster.
Pennsylvania’s manufacturing towns and older, suburban communities were once thriving, diverse and attractive places. But for many decades they have been victims of federal and state policies that have favored new suburban development at the expense of established communities.
Our aging communities are now experiencing crumbling infra-structure, abandoned Main Streets, loss of jobs, struggling schools, and ex-cessive tax burdens...while newer communities are at risk for unbalanced growth.
The summit will give visibility during this critical election year to the com-mon challenges faced by our communities, and to launch an organizing structure for advancing the state and federal policy agenda that will revital-ize and strengthen Pennsylvania.
The summit will feature national experts on regional equity, land use and municipal and school governance, as well as testimony from local community leaders.
Invited guests: Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial candidates, U.S. Senate candidates, and members of the federal administration, among others.
Organizations convening this summit include 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, Good Schools Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council of Churches, Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project, YorkCounts and a number of munici-pal governments and community leaders.
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6/14/2010 |
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