Event Tonight
KAST is sponsoring a free financial symposium tonight at the Liberty Theater. The event will begin at 5pm and end at 7pm. It will be broadcast live as well.
Our guest panelists are all CEO's from local financial institutions:
Steve Ferber: Compass Community Bank
Cherie Folk: Bank Of Astoria
David Williams: Shore bank
Robert Blumberg: Wanna Federal Credit Union
Dennis Long: Bank Of The Pacific
Mike Pierce: TLC Federal Credit Union
Each panelist will be given the opportunity to make opening remarks and then the floor will be open to the audience for questions. Listeners to the broadcast may email in their questions to tom@kast1370.com
This is an opportunity to gain a clear picture of the state of these local institutions, ask questions about credit, lending, retirement, the mortgage crisis, and get first-hand information from those who operate these key institutions.
The event is free and open to the the public, of course.
2 comments:
Tom, you are certainly correct that government was not built to handle economic development. In fact, the government was neither created nor intended to cause economic development. Government is supposed to do things that people and businesses could not efficiently do for themselves like provide for protection, water, sewer, take care of the poor and things like that. Economic development should be strictly the purview of private business. Unfortunately, business people did not understand that. They slowly pressured government to spend tax payer money to help businesses make more money in the name of "community development". We have seen that here with statements like the swimming pool will be good for economic development because tourists will flock here to use it - a skateboard park will attract people who will shop here, development of the old Safeway site will help downtown businesses develop and so forth. Perhaps people believe that businesses pay more than enough taxes to support the things the government does for them, even thought the truth is that business does not pay sufficient taxes to cover the basic service costs the government provides. This lack of understanding about the pupose of government has gotten us to this point, where private business is standing in line with its hand out for taxpayer dollars rather than living within the theory that made America great in the first place - a free market system and a small government.
Believe it or not, the swimming pool is a good thing(kinda expensive tho)The skate park is also a good thing
We do need a gathering place for teens!!
Isn't the old skating rink around? If I wasn't in ill health, or won the lottery I would begin to provide a place for teens.
Isn't there anyone out there that has lots of energy?
Sorry Tom, no jail we are in need to keep our kids off the streets!
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