About

Progressive Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana promotes and chronicles the progressive efforts of individuals, organizations and businesses in the area.  The site was founded in 2006 to highlight all of the amazing, important projects and accomplishments being taken on by members of our community.

What you’ll find here

Brief blog-style postings highlighting news and events in Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana, with a focus on the positive and progressive. Lots of links to external resources and other content creators, with occasional original material.

What do we mean by progressive?

The term “progressive” is often used in a political context, but Progressive Wayne County is not a political site (though we may feature political news and events). Instead, we seek to bring together people and organizations from any background and hold up efforts that highlight progressive values.

In Richmond and Wayne County, progressives are people working toward new and better ways of living together in this community – for themselves, for their families and neighborhoods, and for fellow citizens. We’re balancing the economic needs of business and industry with concern for equal opportunities, fair wages, and concern for the land base and non-human forms of life. We’re working to attract and retain a diverse population of all ages, ethnicities, lifestyles and backgrounds. We’re embracing our differences and resolving our conflicts. We’re supporting politicians and civic leaders who can collaborate to solve short-term problems, but who aren’t afraid to pursue broad new initiatives that involve risk, sacrifice, investment, and unpopular positions in the name long-term success. We’re making decisions that consider the needs of many generations to come. We’re creating a culture of tolerance, sustainability, equity and genuine connection between the members of this community.

Progressives in Wayne County are trying to move the community forward.

Who maintains this thing?

ProgressiveWayneCounty.org was created by Chris Hardie, a Richmond resident.

Send inquiries and questions to editor@progressivewaynecounty.org.

What happened to the original site with fancy stuff?

In August 2010, the site was simplified into a focused blog, and other features like forums, individual user blogs and related items were removed.  We found that while these items were useful to some, they most often distracted from the core purpose of the site.

If you were searching for content that used to be hosted here, e-mail editor@progressivewaynecounty.org and we’ll see if we can dig it up for you.