Regional Planning Invaluable to Local Governments The Southeast Tennessee Development District has been invaluable to McMinn County by helping them in annual strategic planning. As a result, McMinn County will be debt-free by 2002.		Past Issues February/March 2001 December/January 2001 November 2000 October 2000 September 2000 Published Monthly by NADO and the NADO Research Foundation, 400 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 390 Washington, DC 20001. Melissa Levy, Editor mlevy@nado.org World Wide Web: www.nado.org; Tel: (202) 624-7806; Email: info@nado.org.
	Economic Development Administration Update Covers the EDA website's Tools of the Trade feature as well as four of their most recent reports about brownfields, changing work organization in small manufacturers, competitive regionalism and internet-based commerce.
	ITS Deployment in Ohio: Public Education First This article explains how public buy-in can help in the deployment of intelligent transportation system technologies, using the story of an EDA funded district in Youngstown, Ohio.
	Region Manages Scenic Byways Resource Center The Arrowhead Regional Development Commission in Minnesota believed that a regional development organization would be best suited to serve as a national resource center for scenic byways support. And now they manage the National Scenic Byways Resource Center.
	Foundations that Fund Economic Development A resource list of foundations supporting rural and economic development activities.
	Electronic Funds Transfer and Rural America This article outlines the obstacles to the use of electronic funds transfer for rural Americans and ways to overcome them.
	Digestibles A wide variety of reports, websites and other resources.
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