  {"id":19250,"date":"2020-02-27T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=19250"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:25:26","slug":"talk-on-rural-economic-development-in-maine-featured-in-maine-campus-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2020\/02\/27\/talk-on-rural-economic-development-in-maine-featured-in-maine-campus-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk on Rural Economic Development in Maine featured in Maine Campus article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18867 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Rural Economic Development\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-105x59.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-317x178.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-423x238.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-634x357.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-846x476.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-951x535.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/01\/Talk-EMDC-2-3-20.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>91¸£Àû\u2019s student newspaper, The Maine Campus, covered the Mitchell Center\u2019s Sustainability Talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/event\/talk-the-shifting-dynamics-of-rural-economic-development\/\">\u201cShifting Dynamics of Rural Economic Development in Maine,\u201d<\/a> in a February 10 article.<\/p>\n<p>The February 3 talk featured Lee Umphrey, Vicki Rusbult, and Will Harper from the Eastern Maine Development Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emdc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(EMDC)<\/a>, which works to support Maine communities and businesses and frequently partners with the Mitchell Center. The talk focused on a new model of economic development that EMDC has launched, Economic Opportunity Response Teams (EORT), to enhance traditional technical assistance services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecampus.com\/2020\/02\/emdc-discusses-rural-economic-development-opportunities-in-maine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full Maine Campus article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the full schedule of <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/seminars\/spring-2020-sustainability-talks\/\">Spring 2020 Sustainability Talks<\/a>\u00a0and view recordings of <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/seminars\/\">past talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91¸£Àû\u2019s student newspaper, The Maine Campus, covered the Mitchell Center\u2019s Sustainability Talk, \u201cShifting Dynamics of Rural Economic Development in Maine,\u201d in a February 10 article. The February 3 talk featured Lee Umphrey, Vicki Rusbult, and Will Harper from the Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC), which works to support Maine communities and businesses and frequently partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":614,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":614,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19263,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}