Our world credentials suggest something greater. In the technology environment, anything coming in is already on its way out. We need to adjust, set a course and get everyone we can on board. In order to do that, the absolute key to community leadership is attitude, trust and confidence in one another. Particularly, the governmental leaders have got to come to realize this.
Patience is no longer a good enough reason to avoid coming to grips with our differences.
I agree with Mayor Brown that rivalries and personal politics often keep us from reaching our potential. We need to surround ourselves with a new way of doing business as a development entity and go after it as a community. Arising out of the response to the Pharmacia and Upjohn decision and the two public meetings at Portage City Hall last fall, there was a definite consensus that major change had to occur. Since then, a smaller group of public and business individuals has been working to identify potential areas of change. I hope their results come soon.