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Some Empirical Aspects of Manufacturing Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Did Covid-19 shutter proportionally more small businesses (including manufacturing businesses) in the metro or the nonmetro? How do rural manufacturers in Illinois adapt to and cope with the threats of […]
WIU professor provides a new tool for communities in containment of COVID-19
Tim Shelley recently discussed the “shift method” of analyzing COVID-19 data with Adee Athiyaman, a professor of public policy and economic development with WIU’s Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs. In […]
The Small Business Owner’s Guide to the CARES Act
Documentation for the The Small Business Owners Guide to the CARES Act
Understanding the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act Workshop
Participants will be presented with a thorough explanation of each step required in the process Pre-Award Process. The workshop will held on November 20th and 21st in Macomb. For more […]
Farm Country Feeds America. But Just Try Buying Groceries There.
An exodus of grocery stores is turning rural towns into food deserts. But some are fighting back by opening their own local markets. Read the full story at the N.Y. […]
Transreport Summer 2018
RTAC Notes Efficiency and Fine Tuning As I re-acclimate to rural Illinois and the transit operations therein, I happily note that many operations have reached some level of maturity. Maturity […]
Spring 2018
Transreport RTAC Notes RTAC Notes We recently held RTAC’s 16th Paratransit Roadeo in New Berlin. As the day unfolded I became more and more impressed with the event and the […]
Winter 2018
Transreport RTAC Notes “Customer service” is often the reason given when someone needs to differentiate between multiple business and retail options. If you want to find an automotive service company, […]
Fall 2017
Transreport RTAC Notes While the phrase “What’s old is new again,” is most commonly a reference to materials or concepts that one has recently learned to enjoy, and which has […]
Summer 2017
Transreport IPTA Notes IPTA’s 2017 Fall Conference, hosted by Sangamon Mass Transit District in Springfield, has something of interest to everyone. Ecolane, our conference headline sponsor, has helped to create […]
Winter 2017
Transreport RTAC Notes Baby Boomers, longtime rural transit leaders who have been quite active in the Illinois Public Transportation Association (IPTA), have begun retiring. Anna Oestreich of Bond County, a […]