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The Planning Process—From Vision to Action in Small Towns and Rural America
If you don’t know where you want to get to then, as the Cheshire Cat told Alice in Wonderland, “it doesn’t matter which way you go”. In rural and small-town America, the challenges are familiar: aging infrastructure, shifting demographics, and limited budgets. But the real story isn’t about what’s missing—it’s about what communities are doing…
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2026: Bring Your Plans to Life – Monthly Themes Preview
Small Town & Rural Comprehensive Planning: JCShepard.com’s Theme for 2026 Comprehensive planning in small towns and rural counties is not a big complicated urban process writ small. It is about neighbors deciding what kind of place they want to be in the future… and then putting that promise in writing so the next subdivision, the…
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JC’s Americana Top Tunes of 2025
Music is life… if you believe the hashtags. I certainly believe music is one of the finer points of life: The Pursuit of Happiness. Or in my case, the Pursuit of Americana. The blog here at JCShepard.com is a bit of a sandbox, where I share my professional and creative interests, as well as family…
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