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October 31, 2024

EDITOR’S VIEW: The Waiting Was The Hardest Part

In 1983 when our founder Mac Conway launched SiteNet, he had already helmed the magazine and Conway Data for 29 years and published tens of thousands of pages of reports and directories. I can see them on our office shelves, bound in books. I was 19 years old then, a sophomore in college and bound […]

May 10, 2024

IAMC Insider: Two Halves Make a Whole

Iwork for a wonderful company. One of the reasons I think of PepsiCo that way is the way it empowers women — you know, those people who make up half the world’s population. It’s why the company signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. More recently, during Women’s History Month this spring, the […]

May 4, 2024

Editor’s View: Silver Linings Playbook Revisited

To believe things are going to work out, or not to believe. That is the question. You’ll have to forgive this former poetry and theater major. Writing this on Shakespeare’s 460th birthday, I can’t help but ask, “Is it indeed nobler ‘to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against […]

January 25, 2024

Editor’s View: Staying Curious

Conversations with a historian and a veteran site selector cause our editor in chief to reflect on how 70 years have only served to polish and deepen the appeal of our work to those intrigued by the role of place...

December 21, 2023

IAMC Insider: Growing Toward DEI

IAMC members celebrated an exciting few days in Boise recently during our Fall Forum, and I hope you walked away from the conference as energized as I was. I thank everyone for their support as I took the gavel from Karen Shchuka. She has made the transition easy, and I thank her for all of […]

September 11, 2023

The Home Stretch

It’s appropriate in a way that this last letter in our series on building a new strategic plan happens as the IAMC Fall Forum convenes in Boise when we meet with our peers to share ideas and grow relationships. Over the course of the series, we’ve studied the necessary steps to crafting a business plan […]

September 5, 2023

All Capital Investment Is Local

When Editor in Chief Mark Arend arrived at the office recently, he found review copies of three new books about localism on his desk.

June 22, 2023

Rally Your Informational Forces

IAMC Chair Karen Shchuka offers guidance on rallying our informational forces, and John Salustri talks to insiders about the idea of industrial coworking.

March 6, 2023

‘And I’d Also Like to Thank…’

This issue awards the Governor’s Cups, writes Editor in Chief Mark Arend, but those same governors know how to share the credit with state legislators and local leaders.

January 19, 2023

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Recent analysis from Brookings makes the case that the federal government is finally putting its money where its mouth is with respect to investing in domestic industrial development and local...