Opinion/Levesque: Help those who know how to build business
J. Michael Levesque
J. Michael Levesque is a former mayor of West Warwick and United States Commissioner for Employment Policy
Joe Paolino, as published in a recent commentary in this newspaper, thinks that we should use the nearly $2 billion in pandemic related funds coming our way to create, among other things, a modern-day version of the “Greenhouse Compact,” which was a highly publicized economic investment strategy in 1982 that provided a blueprint for Rhode Island’s economic future.
Though the initiative failed, as most think because of the heavy reliance on taxpayer funding, the blue-ribbon commission nonetheless produced some 70 recommendations that were enormously helpful to state and local planners.