[cross-posted from Montpelier Matters, here]
An article published within this morning’s edition of the Boston Globe leaves one to wonder if the Douglas administration’s new motto is something along the lines of:
Party On Dude, Just Do It In Vermont!
[emphasis mine]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Boston Globe
Business News section
Northern hospitality
N.E. states try charm to lure graduates backBy Kristi Ceccarossi, Globe Correspondent | September 29, 2007
The state of Vermont, which is losing its young people at an alarming rate, wants them back.
So on Wednesday, a crew of state employees and headhunters boarded a bus in Montpelier headed for The Living Room, a swanky bar in Boston’s North End. There, they hosted a party for 75 young professionals who live and work in Boston, all of them alumni of Green Mountain colleges and universities.
[…]
The $33,000 networking event is the latest strategy by Vermont’s Department of Economic Development to woo college-educated twenty-somethings. Since 1990, the number of 20- to 34-year-olds in Vermont has shrunk 19 percent, according to US Census data. To stanch the outflow, the state has allocated roughly $5 million in the last seven years for events like the North End gathering.
[…]
Hmmm.
Read the entire article, here.
fyi:
Party on dude!
🙂 [smile]
[Above photo: Vermont Governor Jim Douglas; via Republican Governors Association Website, here]
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