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At the end of January, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the developer of the global LEED green building program, released its annual list of the Top 10 States for LEED.

Quick … before the U.S. Department of Education is put on detention, suspended or expelled completely, grab ahold of deep data analysis released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from the National Center for Education Statistics, the department’s primary statistical agency housed within the Institute of Education Sciences.

Congestion can really get you down. No, we’re not talking about the sniffles going around. More like the cargo and people who aren’t.

Mixed-use retail will succeed in the current marketplace to the extent that the development ties in with the community around it and connects to parks, amenities, neighborhoods and other desirable features of the town.

It can be difficult to align post-secondary education goals with the goals of employers who — despite the growing array of certificates, degrees and other credentials — are still having a hard time filling high-skill, high-wage roles. For students who may have affordability and other challenges, the question is even more direct: Is it worth it for me to even pursue post-secondary education?

Universities nationwide are nudging international students to return to campus early in order to avoid potential re-entry trouble caused by unanticipated consequences of anticipated immigration policy changes from the incoming presidential administration.

The Seabed 2030 Project aims to compile a map of the entire seafloor by the year 2030. The detail work starts at the coasts, but a company driving the project is in Colorado.

We comb through the data from Cushman & Wakefield’s report on the world’s priciest retail avenues. This year a European shopping district beat out New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue for the first time as Via Montenapoleone in Milan, Italy, was declared the world’s most expensive retail street.Photo by Andrei Domanin: Getty Images If you associate […]

Participation in snow activities increased by 10% in New Mexico between 2022 and 2023.Photo by Evan Green courtesy of New Mexico Outdoor Recreation Division Step out onto the planet.Draw a circle 100 feet round. Inside the circle are 300 thingsnobody understands and,maybe, nobody’s ever seen. How many can you find? — Lew Welch, “Hermit Poems,” […]

Singapore tops more than one ranking of business environments, including the new Business Ready rankings from the World Bank.Photo of Clarke Quay courtesy of Singapore Tourism Board Time was when the World Bank Doing Business rankings were a standby resource, whether we were examining the rise of India or putting together a composite index for […]

Given California’s R&D prowess, it was no surprise that early this month the city of Sunnyvale (home to Applied Materials’ forthcoming Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, pictured) was announced as the expected location for the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility.Rendering courtesy of Applied Materials It’s that time of year. Not the […]

        Slicing and Dicing the Academy   Oxford University is No. 1 in the world for the ninth consecutive year. Photo by Chinyup Wong: Getty Images Earlier this month at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Manchester, UK, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 were unveiled. A total of […]

        WorldSkills Brings France’s Summer of Global Competitions to a Close   Attendees from Japan and Hong Kong share a jubilant moment at WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, France. Photo courtesy of WorldSkills How do you get 100,000 visitors to your city because of vocational education? Put your city in France, for starters. […]

        The Geography of Genius   The Johnson Museum sits atop East Hill on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, one of several institutions frequently associated with MacArthur grant recipients from New York. 2019 photo by Jason Koski (UREL) © Cornell University This week’s announcement of 22 new MacArthur Fellows brings […]

        NMTCs Bring New Fuel for Growth to Low-Income Urban and Rural Areas   Rodgers Wade Manufacturing of Paris, Texas (whose replica Eiffel Tower is pictured here), is one of hundreds of manufacturers whose expansions have benefited from NMTC financing. Photo: Getty Images Last week $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits […]

        Tech Rules the Roost Among Inc. 5000 Industry Categories   But construction, logistics and manufacturing companies are well represented too. Rancho Cordova, California, part of Greater Sacramento, is home to a new headquarters and forthcoming business accelerator from consulting firm Clutch, the No. 1 firm by growth rate in this year’s […]

    The Big Apple tops the overall metro region and city rankings, while Sheridan, Wyoming, and Lawrenceville, Georgia, bring in per-capita metro and city honors. Brooklyn is one borough helping Metro New York to No. 1 among all U.S. metros by number of Inc. 5000 firms. Photo of Prospect Park in Park Slope by […]

In August, Inc. Magazine revealed its annual Inc. 5000, a lineup of companies ranked by their percentage revenue growth over the last three years. Collectively, these companies have generated 874,940 jobs and $317 billion in revenue over three years and have displayed median revenue growth of 1,637%. They also generate momentum for the states and […]

If outdoor recreation opportunities are on your company’s or family’s location matrix, new data released by the National Park Service this week is worth visiting.

As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals.

Since January 2015, Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has qualified 58 major data center investments in the Europe’s “FLAP-D” markets: Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin.

        Cart Before the Horse?           If a proposed 25% tariff were to go into effect, the cost of 12 STS cranes already ordered from Chinese companies by the Port of Virginia (pictured) would balloon from $161.52 million to nearly $202 million, says the AAPA. Photo courtesy of […]

        These Places and Companies Lead the Way in Developing Vaccines           Moderna leads all companies in vaccine candidates on PhRMA’s list, followed by such companies as Pfizer, GSK and BioNTech. Since 2000, according to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the U.S. Food & Drug Administration […]

Strategic direction and global trends can sometimes be ascertained through the lens of one company or conglomerate. RTX — encompassing Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace and Raytheon since a 2020 merger — is a case in point.