Jan 16, 2026
Author Ryan Short’s 2025 The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place caught our attention for a singular reason. One of the books many underlying themes is to choose substance over shallow ‘solutions’. Why do we hang new banners downtown every 5 years when we make no substantive investments in small...
Jan 8, 2026
Transcript taken from SMGtheHouser.substack.com
This week, a break from our work solving all the problems of small scale developers in rural America. Besides, our work relies on the success of tech entrepreneurs just as much as it does with municipalities, small business owners, manufacturers and advocates. So it’s...
Dec 31, 2025
Empowering Gig Workers
Tamara Laine is the founder of MPWR, a fintech services platform launching in 2026 to serve the some 80 million global gig economy workers. This isn't the first founding experience for Tamara, here she is speaking with Nasdaq in 2023 regarding an earlier experience with Card Shop Live.
MPWR...
Dec 30, 2025
The Later Days of Big Bands: From the Culture Desk
Join co-hosts Joshua Michael Stewart & Scott Graves on a musical look at just what all those Big Band musicians were doing decades after the end of the Big Band Era.
The popular culture phenomenon of swing music did not end when the record deals started drying up. The...
Dec 20, 2025
Cohosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves delve into what’s on the horizon in Vermont tech in 2026. Talk of BETA Technologies recent IPO and its consequences on employment opportunities was high among the list of other companies mentioned that we’re watching in the upcoming year. The list includes OnLogic, former podcast...