What should be on a region's wish list when it has tons of currently underutilized resources, like lakes and rivers, parks, museums and galleries, research librarians, wifi spots, empty buildings and houses, public transportation, coffee shops, continuing ed classes, and experts who spend more time being experts out of town than in town?
I just want to take a moment to comment on Jack's statement on the experts spending more time out of town than in town. It is my humble opinion that most of the decision makers in town would prefer to have Chicago, NY, DC experts/consults/etc. address issues/problems/give advice rather than those that have been home grown. I find this quite unfortunate and dismaying that to try to solve something here, we need affirmation and validation of problem solving from those not from here. I think that it is systemic and needs to be changed. We have too many expert resources here in town, that are too numerous to list, that we don't engage and makes it necessary for them to chase business out of town.
Posted by: Lou | September 12, 2004 at 08:31 AM