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I've been yelling about this for 10 years. My town should be ripe for this, from geography to taxes to cost of living. There is a trainable work force available, and little to no established tech sector competition. It's literally 'ground floor accessible' right now.

At present, I don't know if anyone local is even considering a big push like this. Whomever becomes the first to successfully initiate such an undertaking- well, their name(s) will be spoken in the same breath as the Strananhans, Libbeys and Navarres. The new titans for a new era.

Won't be me. I work for those circles, I don't run in them.

My big hope for NEO leadership is to encourage tech investment in the area. Akron has a great stem history with UA, but most grads leave once they get the degree. Would be nice to see them stay. I actually think akrons tech incubators are a promising sign for a city that was all shuttered up 30 years ago

Akron. In Latin, it means “pinnacle of polymer science.”

OK, that’s a lie.

But for much of the past century and continuing today, the city’s name has been synonymous with rubber, plastics and the science behind the polymers that make such materials effective, cheap and abundant. It’s a field of science the city continued to nurture, decades after the tire-making jobs that put Akron on the map were gone.


http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160625/NEWS/160619900/akrons-tire-industry-legacy

Thanks for the article! I think smaller cities like Akron need to find an industry to identify with and I think with Akron it should be tech r&d as mentioned here

Yes, the goo-brained imbecile who yells at the TV all day had a specific and detailed plan in mind.

The man thinks health insurance costs $12 a year. Are you truly gullible enough to think that he has plans and details to be worked around and hashed out?

He literally rambles about this plan helping out the middle class and how his rich friends are mad at him, and that he's taking a bath on his income. Are you seriously dumb enough to hear that drivel and think this man has a plan?

Consider That Trump May Just Be Dumb

https://splinternews.com/consider-that-t...impression=true

Donald Trump has spent the entire first year of his presidency doing the opposite of learning on the job. Nowhere is this more plainly obvious than his grasp of foreign policy; the only thing he has learned, it seems, is that the media loves it when he bombs stuff or gets troops killed.

And yet all year long, op-ed columnists, cable news channels, magazines, and think tanks have attempted at various times to give Trump a “doctrine.” For example, earlier this month the conservative National Review – less than two years removed from “Against Trump” – wrote that the Trump doctrine was “America and American interests will always come first, globalist agendas second.

A New York Times story today is the latest to try to assign Trump’s foreign policy some kind of quality that can’t be boiled down to him not knowing anything. Reporter Mark Landler writes that Trump is “unpredictable and inward-looking,” and “remains an erratic, idiosyncratic leader on the global stage, an insurgent who attacks allies the United States has nurtured since World War II and who can seem more at home with America’s adversaries,” namely Russia and China. He also says that Trump’s tweets “often make a mockery of his administration’s policies and subvert the messages his emissaries are trying to deliver abroad.”

National security adviser H.R. McMaster, in an attempt to give Trump some semblance of credit, told Landler that Trump’s “unorthodox approach ‘has moved a lot of us out of our comfort zone, me included,” and described Trump’s approach as “pragmatic realism.”

Trump’s interactions with German chancellor Angela Merkel, however, betray the real problem: Trump simply doesn’t know anything.

Later, he told Ms. Merkel that he wanted to negotiate a new bilateral trade agreement with Germany. The problem with this idea was that Germany, as a member of the European Union, could not negotiate its own agreement with the United States.

Rather than exposing Mr. Trump’s ignorance, Ms. Merkel said the United States could, of course, negotiate a bilateral agreement, but that it would have to be with Germany and the other 27 members of the union because Brussels conducted such negotiations on behalf of its members.

“So it could be bilateral?” Mr. Trump asked Ms. Merkel, according to several people in the room. The chancellor nodded.

“That’s great,” Mr. Trump replied before turning to his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, and telling him, “Wilbur, we’ll negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Europe.”

According to Landler, some officials in the Trump White House “found the episode humiliating,” presumably because the head of the German government had to explain to the most powerful politician in the world not only how trade negotiations with one of the United States’ largest trading partners works, and because Trump changed his definition of “a new bilateral trade agreement with Germany” in the same conversation.

Trump is “unorthodox” because he doesn’t know anything. Contrary to what some in the media would like to believe, there is no doctrine or approach, just whatever Trump feels like saying or doing at any given moment. Trump isn’t unpredictable or inward-looking, but rather completely clueless and unwilling to learn.

I agree 110% with this statement 40! Trump's plan to plunder the US treasury for the Elites is working beautifully. His plan to erase Obama's legacy is right on track too! His plan to obliterate the poor and working middle class' future with huge debt and little hope of socioeconomic mobility is right on pace. His plan to keep the uneducated far right afraid of enough boogeymen to fool them while he does all of this, it's simply evil genius!

Blistering commentary. I think that's also why this stuff doesn't bother Trump's base.

Hey PDR , where you been? Did Mommy lock you out of the basement?

Hows you're kitty doing? Misspelled your on purpose to make Portland's head explode.

Actuallly you didn’t misspell it. You just used the wrong version.
But you knew that. Others on the board don’t actually understand the differences. Sad.

I don’t understand what the poor kitty has to do with this.

Some of y’all are straight up monsters.

So he's continuing Pres. Obama's plan?

Pets and family are OFF LIMITS!

Rubio is spineless.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/2...detail=facebook

Ooops? Is that what Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is saying about the massive tax cuts bill he voted for? He meant to vote for it, but maybe it's not such a good thing?

Rubio said he expects corporations to pay out higher dividends to shareholders and buy back shares to increase their stock price with proceeds from the bill.
“You’re going to see a lot of these multinationals buy back shares to drive up the price,” Rubio told the southwest Florida-based News-Press.

“Some of them will be forced, because they’re sitting on historic levels of cash, to pay out dividends to shareholders,” Rubio said. “That isn’t going to create dramatic economic growth.”

Did this just occur to him? He wasn't aware that corporations were planning to do this with their big cuts before the vote? Because they were telling us that's exactly what they were going to do weeks before the vote. It wasn't a big secret, or anything. And no real economist, anywhere, concluded that there would be economic growth to offset the hole in the nation's treasury this is going to cause.

He says he supported the bill because there were a few things in it he didn't like, and if "I were king for a day, this tax bill would have looked different." Guess what, Marco? You could have been king for a day. With John McCain out for the vote and a few other senators on the fence, you absolutely had it in your power to tie this up, to not give this huge bonus you now regret to corporations.

It's too little, too late now to pretend like you’re one of the reasonable, moderate ones. You're as much a hack as you've ever been.

Yes by undoing everything Obama has done for the good of common people... but troll on Ted.

If he did that much good for the common people Trump wouldn't have had the victory he did.

Hillary should've run away with it and she didn't.

A very large number of Trump's base was angry white people, would you not agree? Yet Obama made no laws targeting white people specifically, so why were they so angry at Obama? Hillary was just as hated by these people too, so much so they prefered Trump. Begs the question what was it about Obama that these white people didn't like? Hmmmm......

This right here is one glaring reason why she lost junior. People were angry after 8 years of a truly stagnant economy, anemic growth that was pretty much just marking time, not going forward.

8 years of 'if you don't agree with this president it's because you're racist'. No, we just disagreed with him. 'No, you're racist'.

Don't bake a cake for a wedding you have a constitutional right to not bake for? Ruin your life.

Centuries of established politicians saying one thing on the trail (this is the big one) and then doing another once in office.

People are right to be angry.

Washington went to the highest bidder a long time ago, so they voted in one of the bidders.

That at least sounded different.

Steady and rising applause.

“Washington went to the highest bidder a long time ago, so they voted in one of the bidders.”

Only a conservative or 1%’r could paint this as a positive.

A-I am a house painter so...

B-I'm not painting it as positive, I'm just stating fact.

This is a narrative element that HRC failed at. The man who puts his name on any product to make money is the bid, not the bidder. Also, the man who has possibly, billions of dollars in loans to a foreign bank is not a bidder.

Hillary lost because she was hated by a lot of democrats.

Hillary manipulated the DNC and effectively blocked all competition. She only beat the socialist Sanders after a tough fight.

Trump would have lost against against a candidate not named Hillary.

She only beat Sanders after rigging the system in her favor.