The Centre Daily Times ran a front-page story today about the the sudden closure of Bolton Metals plant in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The article, available as an Adobe PDF file, contains information from a Economic and Workforce Brief, "Nonferrous Foundry and Forging in Centre County, Pennsylvania," produced by the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative.

Rose Baker and David Passmore were interviewed for an article, "2008: A period of great uncertainty, that appeared in Pennsylvania Business Central, on January 18, 2008, on page 6. An Adobe PDF copy of the article containing the interview is available at: http://forecast2008.notlong.com.

On 19 January 2008, the Beaver County Times ran an article, "Airport effects this economy more than most," containing an interview with Rose Baker and David Passmore about the Penn State Economic & Workforce Brief, "The Role of Airports in the Economy of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania."

Rose Baker and David Passmore were interviewed for an article, "Despite pork criticism, I-99 seen as major economic boost," that appeared on 17 August 2007 in Pennsylvania Business Central.

The work of Rose Baker, Wes Donahue, and David Passmore in the economic impact of training by the Penn State Management Development & Services was featured on Penn State Live on 21 November 2006 (see Management Development Programs have multi-million dollar impact on state economy at http://train.ed.psu.edu/documents/ 21Nov2006MDEV.pdf).

The Altoona Mirror, a daily newspaper in Altoona, Pennsylvania, published a brief essay by Rose Baker and David Passmore in its 5 August 2007 issue. Described in the essay are economic opportunities that a new interstate roadway, Interstate 99, will offer for central Pennsylvania. Point to and click on the graphic to the left to obtain an Adobe PDF file containing a scan of the published essay.

Jack Gido, former Director of Penn State’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and David Passmore were interviewed by Area Development magazine. The interview appeared in an article, "Back to the Basics: Finding Skilled Workers," in the August 2006 issue of the magazine. An Adobe PDF copy of the interview is accessible at: http://train.ed.psu.edu/weblog/AreaDevOnline_Aug_06.pdf

Rose Baker and David Passmore were interviewed about uses of Web 2.0 and social computing resources at the 2007 Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Symposium at Penn State. The interview was vodcast and made available through iTunes and as a Quicktime streaming movie.

A click on the image below navigates to the streaming movie linked through the TLT Symposium blog:

David L. Passmore was interviewed on 1 August 2007 by public radio station in Harrisburg, WITF-FM, about an Economic & Workforce Brief that Rose Baker and Passmore prepared about the impact of federal military spending (see http://train.ed.psu.edu/brief, which links to an Adobe PDF file for the Brief on federal military spending). The interview was on WITF this morning. From the WITF-FM (NPR, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) news archive web site:

Economic role of midstate military installations highlighted in new study
Scott Gilbert (WITF)—New research from Penn State underscores the role of federal military spending in the midstate economy. The school’s Office for Economic and Workforce Development compiled a brief that examines an eight-county region. It finds that every 100 military jobs create $2.4 million in direct compensation and another $500,000 for workers in other sectors.
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Researcher David Passmore says the impact can also be viewed in terms of outright job creation. Passmore says this type of research demonstrates that when federal military spending in the region grows or shrinks, other industries are affected as well. The counties included in the study are Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lebanon, Perry and York.