• Restructure WEDC, improve reporting and access while working with all Counties to help pay a local professional as part of the WEDC team.


• Use tax incentives to help growing companies. Make them available to all growing companies. No new jobs no benefits.


• Modify TIF laws to mirror how they are actually used.


• Provide health care for all state and LOCAL employees including teachers.


• Work with power companies, business, and the legislature to create affordable renewable energy.


• Get creative in housing the most in need using nontraditional products, self policing, ownership, education, and employment...
  
  Also note US news is trying for a Pulitzer Prize with the focus in the photo...

Ken Notes: Economic Development 101

1. Over 50% of new businesses ventures fail.
2. Banks have procedures in place to deal with this.
3. Government should offer incentives, programs and grants to encourage these banks and investors not replace them.
4. Government should NOT pay out up front unless they are willing to lose the investment 50% of the time.
5. The very term LLC was invented to Limit Liability suing these entities if fruitless.
6. An LLC is not part of the parent company - Ask ("I`ve never been bankrupt") Donald Trump.
   

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson

• Milwaukee’s Sherman Phoenix, a vibrant food hall and entrepreneurial hub
  
• comprehensive pollution abatement initiatives
  
• cow barns at Rosy-Lane Holsteins
  
• La Farge Medical Clinic & Amish communities
  
• barges laden with soybeans, corn
  
• Stevens Point’s IDEA Center
  
• Kickapoo Valley Reserve