Hello All,
I do apologize for not having been more involved with the blog these past few weeks. Of course I’m not an everyday poster so visiting my blog is sometimes hit or miss. I will try to do better in the future with topics especially dealing with economical data and analysis. I'll even throw in those reflections too. Those are always fun to write and it gives us a chance to sit and smell the flowers.
I wanted to just catch up with you about my campaign. Things are well but with any campaign, no matter what others may say, there are peaks and valleys. I don’t know how many public leaders will admit this and tell you that truth, but I will.
I have met a lot of interesting people with this venture and have had some great conversations and in all of our chats the one underlining factor that sticks out is our local economy.
Everything develops around one common denominator. BUSINESS! Business creates jobs and revenues for our lives. All of our concerns and anxieties stem from the lack of more investments.
Our community sits between a rock and a hard place and to start mending our fences and attracting these investments we need to understand our global competition. Why you may ask? It is because they are attaching business and we are losing business. I don’t like the use of some economists call this an “economic war”. I’d rather say capitalistic competition.
I bring my innovation but I also bring to the table the experience and knowledge of what our global competitors are doing to economically develop. I lived and worked in Southeast Asia and have a collection of information. I have also traveled for the past 3 years accumulating and examining economic data in other countries as well as a mixture of cities throughout our great nation. I can point to those directions that support our local commerce and rekindle our economy.
We can no longer have the mind set of let’s wait and allow things to sort out by themselves. We have been delayed long enough.
We have to become active with better incentives while working with investors, help local business break into trade and create those opportunities for an entrepreneur that can help nurture and offset those challenges that they contend with.
I won’t stand here and tell you that this will be a walk in the park. It will be difficult, it will be challenging but through our hard work we will be awarded through our determination.
Here are some publications that I have been involved with that you may wish to check out.
Local PaperLeague of Women VotersDon’t forget to
Google my full name.
With imagination, courage and fortitude,
Shane
