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Chasing Smokestacks and Promoting Sprawl: Economic Development in Ohio
19 OCTOBER 2011
Rustwire.com
“Economic development” is the universally acknowledged highest priority in Northeast Ohio and it’s well funded. Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County spends roughly 20 percent of its budget on economic development, or about $100 million dollars. The state of Ohio has made it a top priority as well, pledging $700 million to its Third Frontier technology-based economic development program.
Somehow I couldn’t get excited about the idea of being an economic development professional in the state of Ohio, though. I guess its because so much of what the economic development community does in Ohio I find to be counterproductive, or worse, morally reprehensible.
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