Entries for May 2015

The Glenpool City Council and Glenpool Administration has recently been attacked for spending money on consultants for economic development and related services.  Believe it or not, we have looked at cities who have had success and found that they all have a common denominator.  They eithe...

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Most of the 30,000 cities and towns in the U.S. have economic development staffs calling businesses in an attempt to recruit them. Liberal is no different. But like many of the other 30,000, trying to get to talk to the site selecting personnel for a retail company is almost impossible. One major...

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McAlester city councilors decided by a 4-to-1 vote to rehire an economic development consultant for another year at more than double his current rate of pay — but only after some pointed questions from several councilmen as to whether the city is getting its money’s worth. The city c...

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More than $200 million. That number has been buzzing around our heads since we first were told that this startling sum is how much Illinois Quad-Cities consumers are spending each year, not here at home, but in such places as the Iowa Quad-Cities, Des Moines and Chicagoland. On its own that...

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