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Another Train Long Gone – Rockford in 2015

2015 was interesting for the Rockford area. You people talked about trains, hotels, casinos, and hope. Like a broken record at this point. Buildings knocked down, some with busy-bees flying about planning stuff.  Weeks on with work, months off without.

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Downtown Leaders Rely on Community Volunteerism For Municipal Events to Pay Business Friends For Municipal Marketing #lol

Rockford, IL – Regional businesses from the advertising, marketing, and PR industry that dabble heavily in municipal, city, state, and public charity* marketing contracts have decided to give back a percentage of their inflated overhead (gross profits) to the same community

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TEDx Event Will Inspire Locals To Continue Telling Stories To Each Other

Rockford, IL -TEDx – the popular online community site that inspires professional people (and lazy web surfers needing to get their day going if coffee doesn’t) to think with other peoples ideas – is coming to town! The TEDxRockford’s PR statement says, “the goal of TEDxRockford is to tell stories around the model’s four main themes: 21st Century Brainpower, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Quality Connected Places, and Branding with New Narratives.” We thought locals were trying to do that for decades, but now we know that TED is listening to us!

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