State Issue 1 picks up newspaper endorsements
Newspapers throughout Ohio are voicing their support of State Issue 1, Jobs for Ohioans, the ballot issue that would renew bonding authority for the Ohio Third Frontier (OTF) technology development program. We hope you’ll pass this information along to your friends, family and colleagues to help us continue to build support for Issue 1.
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Akron Beacon Journal: "Any successful economic strategy has many parts. (Ohio) has improved the way it taxes businesses. It has begun to invest more effectively in higher education...Now Ohio voters have an opportunity to sustain a success story, the Third Frontier project, a collaborative effort between the public and private sectors to accelerate development in high technology and create jobs."
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Cincinnati Enquirer: “…there are plenty of good reasons to support the Third Frontier—and to approve its extension now. Delay would send an unwelcome signal of uncertainty to investors and innovators considering Ohio. It could halt the state’s momentum, not only in building new companies and jobs but in building a new mentality that’s just starting to take hold in the Buckeye State—one that encourages entrepreneurs, innovators and risk takers."
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Columbus Dispatch: “Ohio voters should seize the opportunity to keep the state's successful Third Frontier program humming, expanding high-tech industries and creating jobs, by voting yes on State Issue 1.”
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Crain’s Cleveland Business: "Finally, we have a program that is the envy of the nation, and it's operating exactly as its framers had envisioned. We're not simply burning through scarce state funds and resources to woo a plant from another state or country; we're creating new companies that are growing and employing well-paid professionals."
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Dayton Daily News: "If the best researchers and mosrt promising start-up companies can tap government money to get their projects going, that matters to them. It determines where their research teams will set up shop and where they'll locate their companies. In this sense, the Third Frontier money is a recruiting tool, both of businesses and scholars.
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The Plain Dealer: "Ohioans will have a chance on May 4 to cast a vote for the state's future. They need to seize that opportunity by voting for Issue 1 and doubling down on the best economic development bet Ohio has made in decades: its Third Frontier program."
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Youngstown Vindicator: "…the program has attracted seven times the amount of follow-on capital invested, and the growth of venture capital activity has been twice the national average in the last five years…An objective evaluation of Third Frontier will lead to the conclusion that this is an initiative voters can — and should — easily support."
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