Column: How our outdated thinking holds Hampton Roads back

Column: How our outdated thinking holds Hampton Roads back

In an April 13 guest column (“Why 18 governments are too many for Hampton Roads“), I argued that Hampton Roads suffers from a structural flaw: the fragmentation of our region into 18 separate governments, each acting independently in a world that increasingly rewards scale, coordination and unified vision. But beneath that structural problem lies something deeper, and more dangerous: a mindset problem. Our institutions and leaders are often oper…