Ample local economic development on tap for 2022
17 Jan 2022
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As COVID-19 moves into its third calendar year, a plethora of pandemic-related issues continue to squeeze the U.S. economy, include spiking inflation, a mass exodus from the workforce and the evolving impact of the Omicron variant.
But locally, a number of economic development projects are cause for optimism.
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