Current News & Issues
Ohio Growth and Change Report Recently Released
A recent Brookings Institution report,
"Restoring Prosperity: The State's Role in Revitalizing America's
Older Industrial Cities", got a lot of play across Ohio and the
country last week," said Partridge, the Swank Professor of Rural-Urban
Policy in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental
Economics. "What's most important for Ohio to consider is its
recommendation that we need to work across regions to solve problems.
Cities, suburbs and townships, particularly in Ohio , need to work
together as an integrated unit rather than compete with each other."
Ohio
has experienced weak population
growth for decades, but the state has not addressed a key underlying
issue -- substantial population redistribution within the state, Partridge
said.
"The pulls and tugs that our townships
are experiencing are the mirror image of the decline of our cities'
central core," Partridge said. "These two trends have the
same underlying cause, and it will take regional cooperation to address
it. Too often, outlying areas and central cities treat each other
as if they're from different planets, but the problems they're experiencing
are very interconnected."
More information about Ohio ’s growth
and change is found at http://exurban.osu.edu
Upcoming Workshops & Seminars
- The Ohio Income Tax Schools
are designed for tax preparers with some experience preparing and
filing federal tax returns for individuals and small businesses. Instruction
focuses on tax law changes and on the problems that you face in preparing
tax returns. The tax school workbook also will cover changes in filing
Ohio tax returns. Highly qualified instructors will explain and interpret
tax regulations and recent changes in tax laws. To see the tax school
workshop schedule for more information, visit http://aede.osu.edu/programs/TaxSchool/index.html
- The
Ohio Land Use Conference 2007 (hosted by The Ohio State
University in memory of Jennifer McSweeney) will be held this year
on September 14. The conference will run from 9 am to 3:45 pm at the
Fawcett Center. Click
here for more information.