ACT 1

The Four States Area may be a wonderful corner of the world but for generations our natural resource based manufacturing economy and our limited access to higher education produced a per capita average income below state averages. Thomas Friedman confirms in his best selling 2005 book, “The World is Flat,” the axiom that cities that have a per capita higher-than-average income and are faster growing have a better educated populace, with engineering being possibly the most important discipline. Twenty-five percent of Russians and 46 percent of Chinese who graduate from college...

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