Quote Originally Posted by ljbab728 View Post
What in the world does that mean, Spartan? Are you saying that the city has made choices to not attract those kinds of businesses and could if they wanted to? I understand Oklahoma City's shortcomings in those areas as well as you do but to say the city making choices which are contrary to attracting businesses is not an accurate statement at all.
Oklahoma City has a state legislature delegation that as you can see, clearly calls the shots at the state level. It's these guys like Glenn Coffee, etc., who set the agenda. The Chamber and City has luncheons and other events and does a great job of coordinating the legislative goals with these guys. OKC prefers to use up all of its state favors on cash incentives for economic development and throwing money at the Big Dig. Don't even pretend for a second that education is given a priority here.

Oklahoma ranks 49th in per pupil education spending.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n53801648/

Honestly, what would someone have to be smoking to want to hire hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in a state that ranks 49th in education? You should at the very least stay in the top 30.