The Life Science bill will be out shortly. Sen. Jack Hart and I have been working diligently to put together a strong bill for Massachusetts. I will post more about this soon. There was a story in the Boston Globe today about some concerns from the industry that Legislative earmarks may have weakened the bill. Two points on this: First, if we weren't diligent and gave some direction while spending one billion dollars of the taxpayer's money, the story would have been that we were just throwing a pile of money at the industry with no safeguards that the money would be spent in the public interest. Second, almost everyone who was quoted in the story as voicing concerns over earmarks had asked us to earmark money in this bill or previous bills.
More to come shortly as we work to get this done before the upcoming bio conference in San Diego.
2 comments:
Journalists and politicians working each other for angles.... my oh my! What will we tell the children?!?
Write a good bill and tell The Globe to come talk to us in North Adams the next time they want to talk smack.
Greg, it is frustrating that they don't get the fact that we have no life science program is that we have no science building. It is a chicken and egg thing. If we can establish a science program through the appropriate building, we can train people in this area. As you may know, the life sciences are proliferating in the Albany to Glens Falls NY. area. We can tap into the demand in this market if we can train students.
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