RedPost is now starting to sell LCD mounts designed and manufactured locally by MOR/ryde (check out their product line here), who builds several components we use, including our custom-designed Sign/Post. These are great mounts — rock solid, high quality, much better than a lot of the cheap crap coming out of China nowadays. Here’s a [...]
From the IEDC release:
ATLANTA (March 4, 2010) – Elkhart, Ind. was the top destination for new corporate investment in 2009 among metropolitan areas with populations less than 200,000, according to data tracked in Conway Data Inc.’s New Plant Database.
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Governor’s Cup winners are selected based on the number of new corporate location projects in each state [...]
South Bend, located beside Goshen (where RedPost is) in neighboring St. Joseph County, just got some bad news — GM is closing down the Hummer plant. That shouldn’t help our local unemployment numbers one bit (somewhere around 1,500 people work there).
It’s also marks the end of an economic era in the U.S..
but I love stats like this:
Here are some examples from U-Haul of its current one-way rental rates for a 26-foot truck:
From Dallas to San Francisco: $734
From San Francisco to Dallas: $2,116
From Houston to Los Angeles: $706
From Los Angeles to Houston: $2,051
In both cases, it’s almost three times more expensive to rent a truck to leave [...]
I was at an all-day planning meeting today along with 200 or so other community leaders to launch “Horizon 2.0“, a new phase of the Horizon Project which was completed in 2003. It’s a great plan, but the devil’s in the implementation. Some good speakers, including the former mayor of Indianapolis, Bart Peterson; Bob Jorth, [...]
In the last newsletter of the Indiana Rural Health Association. See it here.
Also, in a semi-related note, Maple City Health Care, where RedPost’s IHIN is being beta-tested, was featured on NPR today for their community-service-for-healthcare program. Check it out:
A low-cost health care clinic in Goshen, Ind., has come up with a business plan that allows [...]
All of this:
Used to be in here:
We’re doing a trial run with ADEC, a local non-profit who’s mission is “Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.” ADEC disassembles the electronics at their facility in Elkhart; they recently received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to do so. After the trial run, we’ll see if we [...]
From today’s issue of the Elkhart Truth comes news that:
GOSHEN — Elkhart County businesses, churches and schools won’t be able to get too flashy with their outdoor signs anymore.
In a bid to minimize distractions to drivers and maintain “tranquility” in residential and agricultural zones, Elkhart County commissioners on Monday approved new rules limiting electronic message [...]
I just got out of a meeting with one of our suppliers, MOR/Ryde, located in nearby Elkhart. MOR/ryde manufactured our original RedPost/Kit and now makes pieces of our RedPost/Sign (the backplate and powder-coats the frames) and our Sign/Post. It’s been awhile since I’ve stopped by, as orders have been slow the past year, but I’m [...]
Local AM radio station WTRC 1040 has been a destination for local and national news and sports since 1931. Here’s their current logo:
They’re currently going through a rebranding process to become:
Wowza! That’s a huge most likely driven by:
declining radio news listeners (except for NPR, of course)
retiring baby boomers (I mean…their slogan is “Radio for Baby Boomers”)