10 points for using the word "bupkis," Ed.
Infrastructure is probably the country's and the city's greatest catalyst. This would include the river and parking as well as replacing aged out water systems. It's time to bond up and get on with improving the quality of life looking 25 to 100 years out. This should not include any more wasteful projects that end up becoming money guzzling liabilities after a few years of asset profitability. Projects better left to the private sector.
Losing American Airlines could be a blessing in disguise as all that talent gets to participate in new air and space technology rather than being tied down to antiquated and dated plane maintenance. The aero space business has a major transformation coming and our city should be at the front of this trend.
Let's not depend on The
Downtown Regional Chamber of Commerce. Our educational resources need to be strengthened and enhanced enabling the expansion of our economic base. This must entail unusual and imaginative partnerships.
It's restructuring time.
The Regional Restructuring of the American Continenthttp://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13167-the-regional-restructuring-of-the-american-continentNumerous state leaders throughout the country have, in fact, already gone on record challenging WTO and NAFTA-imposed requirements. A resolution passed by the Oklahoma legislature - to cite only one of many examples - demands that the president and Congress "preserve the traditional powers of state and local governance" and "ensure that international investment rules do not give greater rights to foreign investors than United States investors enjoy under the United States Constitution."
