Doris Jean Dewton, of Edwards, passed away on July 22, 2021, after a courageous fight with cancer. Doris is survived by her sister Elizabeth Cordaro (John Cordaro) of Reston, Virginia; her niece, Susan Cordaro (Sean Desmond and their child Daniel Desmond) of Brooklyn, New York; and nephews Greg Cordaro of Miami, Florida, and Mike Cordaro (Erica Cordaro and their child Holly Cordaro) of Fairway, Kansas, as well as her stepchildren and stepgrandchildren. Her husband of 34 years, and love of her life, Richard W. Gretz, preceded her in death in 2019.
Doris was born in 1947 in Washington, D.C., to Johannes and Hedwig Dewton, who immigrated to the U.S. from Austria. Doris grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and played several sports at Wakefield High School, where she was the valedictorian of her graduating class. She attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating in 1969 with a cum laude degree in political science. She went on to earn a M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Texas at
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In 2017, when Amazon announced a competition to determine where it would locate its HQ2, virtually every city in the U.S. applied. Cities like Pittsburgh invested in this process, and proved their immense value, but the race was revealed to be largely about who could give the largest tax break to Amazon, which does nothing to promote overall U.S. economic competitiveness.
The federal government can turn this idea on its head, by holding a race-to-the-top which competitively awards large amounts of funds to places like Pittsburgh that have the best preconditions to become large innovation hubs. Doing this in an open and transparent manner would boost American productivity while cutting out the pork barrel politics.