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The Madison Center

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Wouldn’t it be nice if local government could find ways to be more efficient and effective without spending tens of thousands of dollars on specialized consultants?  Enter in the new Madison Center for Community Development:  college students and their professors helping out in town halls across the commonwealth.

Guests:
Greg Campbell -  Board member of the economic development group The Shenandoah Valley Partnership.  Board member of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce.  Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport.

Courtland Robinson - Assistant Director, Department of Economic Development, City of Staunton, Virginia.

Nicholas J. Swartz, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Madison Center for Community Development  at James Madison University.

Additional Contributor:

Jack Slye - Research Associate at the Madison Center for Community Development and graduate student in the Department of Public Administration, James Madison University.

Tom Graham was Senior Producer and host of WMRA's Virginia Insight from 2006 to 2015.