Important Reading: The Metropolitan Moment

 

Important article by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, The Metropolitan Moment.  According to the Brookings Institute excerpts:

• "Katz and Bradley explain how states can help build the foundation of the new economy, and a big part of that is adequately supporting their metropolitan economic engines."
• Katz and Bradley "call for a view of the United States based on reality, not nostalgia. The "real America" is not the romantic small-town version of days gone by. Rather, it is a complicated, multi-ethnic, globally connected metropolitan America that will power its citizens through the 21st century. The sooner America realizes what it really is, the sooner it can begin rebuilding itself."

This reinforces the positive synergies building bewteen the state, region and city of Hartford.  Stay tuned for positive steps emerging in the days, weeks, and months ahead.