Tom Hansen says,<br> <br> "<font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">For a community to expand its economic horizons, it must provide jobs that create careers at more than $7.25/hour. Perhaps what <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> needs to do is expand its technological career fields, not its shelf stockers. Shelf stockers would not qualify (as you say) for low-income housing, let alone the $200,000 neighborhood. Technology parks breed careers."<br> <br> <br> Tom,<br> <br> I share your deep concern for those that qualify for $50,000 a year jobs finding a home in Moscow. However, there are a good deal of people in our community that do not have the skills get to a $50,000+ salary at this point in their life, either do to education, training, experience, health conditions, or skill. <o:p></o:p></span></font> <div class="MsoNormal"><font colo!
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face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> <br> I believe that if you want a just society, a sound stable economy, to help the poor help themselves, to attract college students to the community that bring in more dollars, and have predictable economic growth you have provide jobs that can be preformed by the current residents in the community, not just the wealthy, privileged, well educated, and experienced that can preform in the high technology fields. <br> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p><br> The majority of the Moscow's workforce consist of recent high school graduates with no experience. So obviously, the majority of jobs need to be jobs that students can preform. <br> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p><br> Most of the high paying jobs in our community almost always end up being filled by people from outside our community, even when we have the people here that can preform the job with as much skill and success. <br> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p><br>We should promote a diverse economy that allows everyone to obtain a job regardless of their skill, experience, health, education, age, number of hours they can work, and intelligence. Let us work to make sure our top jobs, especially government ones, are filled with locals, not recruited from elsewhere. </o:p></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p><br> The fastest way to raise wages and improve living conditions!
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keep everyone employed. <br> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p><br> -DJA<br> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> <br> </o:p></span></font></div> <br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smart!
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class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Greetings Visionaires –<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Arnold</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> stated:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Ar!
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color: navy;">“When I think of planned growth, I think of the city coming together to meet and plan for the future growth of Moscow based on the future needs of Moscow residents, not just what would be nice, or fit the community desires of those with the most wealth and means.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><br> Well, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City></st1:place>, when I think of “planned growth”, I think of a gradual evolution of a community developing into what its citizens value most.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">!
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<st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> will develop into another <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Coeur d’Alene</st1:place></st1:City>, but not by Friday. It takes time, effort, confidence, and team work for a community to grow. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">For a community to expand its economic horizons, it must provide jobs that create careers at more than $7.25/hour. Perhaps what <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> needs to do is expand its technological career fields, not its shelf stockers. Shelf stockers would not qualify (as you say) for low-income housing, let alone the $200,000 neighborhood.&nbs!
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Technology parks breed careers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">First we must decide, as a community, where we want to go. Then together we can commit our time, effort, confidence, and team work toward that goal. But that will take time and we MUST go about it as a community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Having been born and raised in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:place></st1:City>, I tended to dread megalopolises and their 7 million people with 7 million attitudes. Having served a career in the Army in a multitude of locations I was exposed to life in small towns many times. I developed a desire for small towns and their strong sense of “community”. I fell in love with the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Silver</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType> shortly after my wife and I married and she talked me into visiting her family in <st1:place w:st="on">North Idaho</st1:place>. I recall thinking to myself as we drove over Lookout Pass and I first laid eyes on Idaho, “I am going to die of old age here.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Trust me, Arnold. It wasn’t the proximity to Wal-Mart that appealed to me. It was the open-arm, open-heart welcome I received from a vast majority of the people I met in small town <st1:place w:st="on">North Idaho</st1:place>; that strong sense of community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">There was a song I heard a few years back on (believe it or not) “Andy of Mayberry”. The song was “My Home Town”. It reflects pretty much how I feel about my adopted home town of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">“My home town is the greatest place I know,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Where the neighbors I find are gentle and kind,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And the living is easy and slow,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">My hometown is the only place to be,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Here the worries are small, and <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And the kids grow tall and healthy & free,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It's my hometown, my hometown,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Mayberry, Mayberry”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I know that economic expansion is the desire of every community, but growth and maturity take time. For those that want to live in a large city by Friday, take I-195 north for about 85 miles. As for me, I am going to enjoy watching my adopted home town grow into what I know it can be. Until then, I will satisfy myself living in . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">“Big <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rock</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Candy</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div>!
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class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain.mp3</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">“In the Big <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rock</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Candy</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">It's a land that's fair and
bright,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The handouts grow on bushes <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And you sleep out every night.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The boxcars all are empty<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And the sun shines every day<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I'm bound to go<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Where there ain't no snow<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Where the sleet don't fall<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">And the winds don't blow<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">In the Big <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Rock</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Candy</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mountain</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="f!
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10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Seeya round town, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Moscow, Idaho <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> _____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯<br></blockquote><br><p>
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