These companies have EXPANDED their operations in Cary, NC to obtain access to a large pool of technical talent in the RTP area. These companies did not flee their original states, their headquarters and operations are still in their locations in California, NY, New England, the upper Midwest and Maryland. Tech companies are closing down their operations in Kansas and fleeing the state.
You have Zero proof for that bold assertion other than ONE LONE COMPANY that took the free money to go just on the other side of the state line. Just like the move deals, the mmr vaccine, you resort to making shit up to prove your point.
I have posted other articles on companies leaving Kansas. Where is your proof they took any money? Oh, you don't have any because the company took no money. Here is today's hint... the Tech Industry is a Knowledge Industry. Generally tech companies will only reside in locations that strongly support K-12 and university education. Why? do you ask - because Tech Workers will not move their families to locations with poor education systems because they don't want their kids to grow up and be idiots with no future. In other words, Tech companies are fleeing Kansas because they know it is a hopeless cause to try to convince tech talent to move there.
You claimed that there is major expansion of tech companies all over but Kansas. Here's the reality. www.bloomberg.com/.../tech-funding-slowdown-hits-venture-capital-...Bloomberg L.P. Jan 12, 2016 With a Slowdown in Investment Deals, Tech Startups are Advised to ... www.prnewswire.com/.../with-a-slowdown-in-investment-deals-tech-startups-are-advi... Apr 28, 2016 - SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2016 Iow, private money, people who are actually investing for a profit, are slowing down. Not expanding in tech. That's because there's a profit motive with private money. They do not expect that these tech investments will pay off, hence cut back. So there is no great expansion going on right now. On the other hand, you have the state of Missouri taking taxpayer money and throwing it at tech companies at the same time that this is going on. Does the state of Missouri have special investment expertise that the private markets do not and can see value where other can't? Good grief. The answer is obviously hell no. They're throwing their citizens money away on deals that the private market is cutting back on. That is what is called gov't idiocy.
Every week this year locally, we have new announcements of tech and pharma companies expanding in RTP. Our local start-up scene has hit it's highest level of funding ever. You should not confuse start-up funding and the lack of big companies buying small tech firms in California with the health of the tech sector across the nation. P.S. - the links you provided don't work - but they will only serve to prove my point if they did.
Sure. Anecdotes of yours vs facts. As far as fleeing Kansas to go to "good" public schools? Another theory of yours that hits the skids when compared to facts. The Kansas City school district was so bad that they lost accreditation. Kansas City school district loses accreditation - US news - Life | NBC ... www.nbcnews.com/.../board-strips-kansas-city-schools-accreditation/NBCNews.com Sep 20, 2011 One of the best and highest rated schools is in Kansas City, though. Lincoln Prep ranked No. 1 among high schools in ... - Kansas City Star www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn.../article20752341.htmlThe Kansas City Star May 12, 2015 Of course that's a Private school that people have to pay big buck to in order to Flee the public schools that you claim people move there for. Just what in the heck are you doing in the republican party? I really can't figure it out.
So the schools in Kansas are so underfunded that some districts may not even open this fall unless funding is restored to them from the state. However the state is broke for the last 11 months and has been borrowing money from reserve funds to make payments. Very sad that the leaders of the state cannot do basic fiscal math. What type of Republican am I? I am a traditional Republican. Remember the traditional Republican party? You know, those guys who started and strongly supported K-12 public education in our country. The party of Lincoln and not of the tea party extremists.
Your posts on here every day reveal that you are a chamber of commerce republican that wants to take care of teachers unions and have the state invest in private companies. They were resoundingly defeated in primaries all over the country in the last six months. The tea partiers supported Trump and Cruz by an overwhelming margin. People who win by a wide margin cannot logically be referred to as the extremists in the party. They can rightly be referred to as the mainstream.
I admit I am pro-business, pro-education, pro-conservation. socially tolerant Republican without any regrets. After all these are the roots of the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. I am enjoying your fantasy that I am somehow pro-teachers union for supporting K-12 education (Hint: We don't have teacher unions in our state). It's hard to infer that Tea Partiers are somehow supported by a wide margin when Trump only got a mere 30% of Republican votes country-wide in the primaries. The Tea Partiers can hardly be considered mainstream.
I think gwb is correct in claiming his policies are the traditional republican approach. We tend to think of Reagan as the norm and forget that he was despised and ridiculed by the establishment of his day almost as much as Trump is today. Fhl is correct in saying that today's republican voters have basically rejected the traditional , chamber of commerce, big government republican approach. That message has not penetrated the dimwits running the party however. They seem to believe that if they can sabotage Trump, they can get back to safely logrolling for lobbyists and big business and spending a fortune on defense contractors. If Trump loses, the best case outcome I see for traditional republicans is they maintain a small, minority party. The Trump populists and nationalists will despise them, and a third party is a strong probability.