A region is as a region does, looks

Sometimes it takes a stranger to see what we can’t recognize in ourselves.

The governor’s bottom-up economic development process lumped Larimer County and Weld County together into Region 2 for planning purposes. It’s logical – we’ve been big fans of the “Northern Colorado” brand for more than a decade and a half.

And now that the two counties have completed the exercise to create a matrix of economic goals, strategies, actions and outcomes, the areas where larger regional issues overshadow county-centric concerns are obvious.

Job creation and support for emerging enterprises. Education and workforce development. Transportation and infrastructure. Water storage and delivery.…