» Monthly Archives: June 2011
Strategic Communications #17: ROI on Phones to ID Latent Support
(This is the 17th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
As discussed in a previous post, phones are extremely effective for GOTV purposes, particularly when local volunteers are used, producing 1 vote per 38 contacts (see Strategic Communications Part 1: Grassroots Organizing and GOTV Efforts ...
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Professor Hopkins – Saint Land Use Expert at U. of Arizona
Christopher Hopkins, the senior vice president for aggregates and mining at The Saint Consulting Group, has been appointed an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mining and Geological Engineering and Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources at the University of Arizona.
Chris oversees all of Saint Consulting’s work in the quarry and mining industries in the US, United Kingdom ...
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Amazing Map Charts Growth of Walmart and Sam’s Club since 1962
A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a map that shows more than 4,000 Walmart and Sam's Club stores spreading across the United States since 1962.
Walmart started slow in 1962 and then spread like wildfire in the southeast, starting in 1970, and then made its way towards the west coast. Sam's Club starts ...
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Strategic Communications #16: 10 Uses for Surveys and Polling
(This is the 16th in a continuing series on strategic communications. Click here for earlier segments) By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group Polling and survey research are invaluable tools for measuring all types of issues. They typically provide us with a measurement as a snapshot in time and help us identify trends over longer periods ...
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U.S. Nuclear Power: Site Selection Due Diligence More Important Than Ever
By Jay Vincent, The Saint Consulting Group
Senior Vice President – Energy Sector, Practice Leader
Undoubtedly, the use of nuclear power has been forever changed with the earthquake disaster in Japan. The impacts, while unclear in Japan, are very clear in the United States. Current operators are under scrutiny from all levels of governments. That is not ...
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Local vs State Control: Big Question for Natural Gas Firms in the Marcellus
By Jay Vincent, The Saint Consulting Group Senior Vice President – Energy Sector, Practice Leader Since the 1984 passage of the Oil & Gas Act, most Pennsylvanians thought that counties and townships, cities and boroughs had little to no say over any aspect of the gas industry; that regulations top to bottom fell squarely within ...
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Key Emerging Trends in Land Use Politics – from Master Planning to Social Media
By P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group Now that we at Saint Consulting Group have been running and winning land use political campaigns for 27 years, we can point to a number of trends that have emerged. I recently got the chance to outline seven major trends in land ...
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Jay Vincent Live Blogging from San Diego Wind Energy Symposium
Jay Vincent, senior vice president for energy for The Saint Consulting Group, is blogging live from The San Diego Wind Energy Symposium, which has opened at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 9.04 am PDT The introduction for the event is a welcome from Dr. Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice Chancellor for ...
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Saint Consulting Seeks Project Manager in San Francisco Area
By Anna Dane, The Saint Consulting Group
If you have political campaign experience and understand what drives decision making in government and communities, Saint Consulting Group is looking for a project manager in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Saint Consulting Project Managers are primarily responsible for using grassroots political campaign techniques to win local development fights for ...
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AWEA Update from Windpower 2011 – Down to Business
By Jay Vincent, The Saint Consulting Group
Senior Vice President – Energy Sector, Practice Leader
Down to business is the way that I would describe last month’s Windpower 2011 in Anaheim. Gone are the marginal players. Gone are the speculators looking to make a quick buck on the industry. Here to stay are the serious developers who ...
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