God, but I love irony.
And that's the last time I can find him writing about the subject.
Now, let me spin ThreeOneFour's post another way. I'm kinda unique around the P-D, 'cause I actually have a list of current Civic Progress members. (We as a newspaper haven't published such a list for almost a decade -- a subject for a rant for another day.)
Current list includes Macy's Midwest, U.S. Bancorp Midwest, Nestle, Bank of America Missouri and Boeing. So despite all the actual corporate-HQ power moving away, those folks kept their seats on Civic Progress. Meanwhile, best I can tell, only Centene and Express Scripts are among the true large corporations that have been added to the list because of their own growth. (There's also a name on there that defies any logic save that he went to the right high school and belongs to the right country clubs.)
So I'll ask the same question I've been asking for most of my adult life: Why does Civic Progress even exist anymore? Further, if smaller businesses are, demonstrably, the true driver of job growth, why does St. Louis have a demarcation between Civic Progress and the Regional Business Council?
I submit that this topic has clear tie-ins to everything from why we don't have a Mississippi River Bridge to why "Wheredya go to high school?" is a symptom of the underachieving nature of the region.
In 2005, Dave wrote:LET'S STOP THE hand-wringing over the loss of corporate headquarters.
And that's the last time I can find him writing about the subject.
Now, let me spin ThreeOneFour's post another way. I'm kinda unique around the P-D, 'cause I actually have a list of current Civic Progress members. (We as a newspaper haven't published such a list for almost a decade -- a subject for a rant for another day.)
Current list includes Macy's Midwest, U.S. Bancorp Midwest, Nestle, Bank of America Missouri and Boeing. So despite all the actual corporate-HQ power moving away, those folks kept their seats on Civic Progress. Meanwhile, best I can tell, only Centene and Express Scripts are among the true large corporations that have been added to the list because of their own growth. (There's also a name on there that defies any logic save that he went to the right high school and belongs to the right country clubs.)
So I'll ask the same question I've been asking for most of my adult life: Why does Civic Progress even exist anymore? Further, if smaller businesses are, demonstrably, the true driver of job growth, why does St. Louis have a demarcation between Civic Progress and the Regional Business Council?
I submit that this topic has clear tie-ins to everything from why we don't have a Mississippi River Bridge to why "Wheredya go to high school?" is a symptom of the underachieving nature of the region.
