NEWS
For Immediate Release –
November 10, 2008Media contact: Mark Marchand – (518) 443-5283 / marchanm@rockinst.org
Rockefeller Institute to Hold Public Policy Forum Nov. 24 to Discuss Economic Prospects for the North Country of New York and New England
Albany, N.Y. — The Rockefeller Institute of Government will hold a Public Policy Forum on Nov. 24 to discuss a recent report outlining a strategy for economic resurgence in the Northern areas of New York and New England. The forum will take place at the Institute, located at 411 State Street.
The Forum, Economic Prospects for the North Country of New York and New England, will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 24 and last until noon. Rob Riley, president of the Northern Forest Center, will deliver a presentation on the center’s recent report: Strategy and Recommendations for Economic Resurgence in the Northern Forest. The report includes recommendations to create economic and community development strategies across the region to reinvigorate the rural economies of the Northern Forest.
To read the Northern Forest Center’s report, visit: http://www.northernforest.org/economic-strategy.shtml
Other Forum speakers will include: Brian L. Housel, executive director of the Adirondack Council; Joe Short, from the Sustainable Economies Initiative at the Northern Forest Center; and Todd L. Shimkus, president and CEO of the Adirondack Regional Chambers of Commerce.
Susan Arbetter, host of WMHT-TV’s weekly New York Now, will be guest moderator.
To register for the forum, please contact Michele Charbonneau of the Rockefeller Institute at (518) 443-5258 or email charbonm@rockinst.org.
About the Rockefeller Institute of Government
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, conducts fiscal and programmatic research on American state and local governments. It works closely with federal, state, and local government agencies nationally and in New York, and draws on the State University’s rich intellectual resources and on networks of public-policy academic experts throughout the country. Reporters can find useful information on the Newsroom page of the Web site, www.rockinst.org.