Tell Tales 2-11-21
The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) reelected Ottawa County Commissioner Mark Stahl as its chairman, during the organization’s recent annual business meeting. With Commissioner Stahl in charge, Ottawa County will play an important part in determining regional planning with members in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan working on transportation, water quality, and support regional economic development endeavors that affect quality of life in the region.
TMACOG’s role in transportation is to help plan roadways, rail, bike and pedestrian accommodations, and transit that will move goods and people safely and efficiently throughout the region. The staff at TMACOG compiles information that local elected officials need to set priorities and make plans.
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Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp. Announces the Appointment of Heidi Manna to its Board of Directors
Seven Oaks AcquisitionFebruary 8, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) announced today that Heidi Manna has been appointed as an independent director of the Company’s board of directors and as a member of its audit and compensation committees. Following the appointment of Ms. Manna, the Company’s board of directors is comprised of five directors, including three independent directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Heidi Manna to the board of directors of Seven Oaks,” said Gary Matthews, chairman and chief executive officer of the Company. “We believe that Heidi’s diverse industry experience and human resource-oriented knowledge will be an invaluable addition to the Seven Oaks ESG mission.”
PEORIA As one of few Hispanics in his suburban-Rockford neighborhood, Jim Montelongo just wanted to fit in when he was a child.
“I liked to watch football. I liked to play baseball. I wanted to do all the things young kids do, without being in a certain box,” the Peoria City Council member and mayoral candidate said. “I just wanted to be an all-American kid growing up.”
Of course, not every kid not even the all-American ones grows up to graduate from college, own his own business and be elected to public office three times.
Those experiences appear to have taught the 53-year-old Montelongo a valuable lesson, perhaps more than what he learned when he studied manufacturing at Bradley University.
Cal Flyn’s fascinating feature on the implications of falling birth rates failed to mention the obvious, but still politically controversial, panacea – immigration (“ As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ‘ghost villages’”, Focus). Sooner or later, far-sighted governments need to realise that the only way to replace their lost younger generations is to encourage immigration. Such population movements will provide younger workers to.