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Perhaps the most interesting piece in this Sunday's H-W was the Associated Press article on the failure of municipal wireless Internet service to live up to its hype. My favorite quote: "Most people if they are going to do serious work aren't looking to be sitting in a park."
It's a nice reminder that economic development doesn't come through gimmicks like municipal wireless or convention centers. It happens with an educated workforce, quality infrastructure, a manageable bureacracy....all those unsexy things that political leaders are tempted to forget.
It's a nice reminder that economic development doesn't come through gimmicks like municipal wireless or convention centers. It happens with an educated workforce, quality infrastructure, a manageable bureacracy....all those unsexy things that political leaders are tempted to forget.
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 6:00 AM
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Convention centers are a good part of that quality infrastructure--assuming that they are actually integrated with that infrastructure.
Previous management of the OLC tried very hard to keep the center his own private kingdom. I firmly believe that we're already seeing significant change to achieve that community integration with the new management.
Thank God.
Maybe you missed the story on those fellas that were plotting to blow up JFK Airport? The paper put it on page 3, reserving the front page for a story on CO2 emissions in Missouri.
That would have been a better observation.
The way the HW determines where a story goes in the paper is a wonderment!!! I noticed a local civic club gives almost $20,000 dollars to local agencies and it's stuck on the back page of the classifieds with no picture. shows you where there priorties are.
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