Probably because it’s the peak of the effort and afterwards it’s all downhill:

Reps. Tim Ryan (D-Youngstown) and Jason Altmire (D-Pittsburgh) today hosted about 100 hundred civic, government and business leaders from Northeast Ohio and Southwest Pennsylvania to discuss increasing economic connections among the two regions. The point of the session was to emphasize that the state border is an artificial boundary that shouldn’t keep our two communities from collaborating to spur economic development. They dubbed the region between Pittsburgh and Cleveland as the “Tech Belt…”

Right. It was dubbed the tech belt a long time ago. Sorry if I’m not all excited about 100 of the regions “civic, government and business leaders” getting together for hand-shaking and back-slapping (even if it is Tim Ryan). This sort of thing happens all the time, and the results… well, still remain to be seen. I’d be more encouraged to see someone other the bureaucrats and administrators doing something as opposed to getting together to listen to keynote speakers.

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