Economic Development: Running the bases---internet, cheese, and booze etc.

If you click on the post you can review the modern techniques for attracting business to your community-----the very first base to be run---is internet web presence. This is cited in the article as the first step of 85% of all site selection.

Thank goodness we have come a long way from the Spiro Agnew days when folks that were interested in computers were just "pointy headed intellectuals" that might interfere with the daily business at hand....like interfering with space for our brand new Royal typewriter.

Modern economic development begins on the internet.

This is why when you Google "Evansville" one of the very first things you find is "The Evansville Observer." That is just the very first thing folks think of nationally when they hear the term "Evansville." "Go Big Blue" does not even come up on the search engine.

Thus, when folks consider how to enhance the development of Evansville, I hope they will take the time to click on the post and read why web development is properly an expense of economic development, and in fact, the very FIRST base to be covered if one is to score by running the bases.

I believe all this strongly.

However, just to cover ALL the bases, I am attending the Monroe Cheese Days this Sunday. If you have been covering the Monroe Times lately, you will know that in Monroe, Economic Development is just about liquor licenses....and cheese.

I do love the 5k fun run in Monroe that ends in the beer hall. With polka music blaring and the runners from all over Southern Wisconsin sweaty after a 5k or 10K race sipping Berghoff dark and of course chewing their favorite slice of cheese. What heaven! The way it should be. And always will be in eternal Monroe.

The rest of us need to consider the internet. After all. We have moved on from polka music. Alleluia.