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The answer to my question may be buried in another thread but what is Nolander's prior business experience?  Has he ever owned and operated his own business?  How else can you expect a person to understand the challenges business owners face or the needs they have.

Without experience for a key position like that would be like hiring a police chief who has never carried a badge before.

You make a good point, people with some private sector experience would be beneficial.  Where I'll disagree is that business experience isn't necessary since what the companies want is corporate welfare.  Pick an article of business dealing with economic development, every time the one thing businesses want from economic development is free land, reduced water/sewer rates, tax increment financing, etc.  

Nothing wrong with some of this, so I don't mean to sound harsh calling it corporate welfare, trouble with Albert Lea is they mostly give the above to companies who only pay minimum wage with no benefits.  :(

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Nothing wrong with some of this, so I don't mean to sound harsh calling it corporate welfare, trouble with Albert Lea is they mostly give the above to companies who only pay minimum wage with no benefits.  :(

I disagree slightly with you, in that I don't think they've really done anything in the past several years, except excuse their inaction as being unable to compete against Iowa, Austin and Rochester. It's like going to them and saying please sell our area get businesses to come here, and they say we've tried, we can't, other areas have more to offer, but we'll continue to collect our paychecks.

If a business faced what they described, they'd either go out of business or reinvent themselves.
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