Editorial: Listen-up not shut-up

Lucas County Commissioner Lisa Sobecki has a message for local business, “step up or shut up.” What an inappropriate thing to say to the businesses that provide the jobs and make the sales that are the foundation of government income and sales tax funds.

Commissioner Sobecki let frustration with a request to fund a $100,000 economic development grant for HOPE Toledo prompt her to make that intemperate demand of local business as part of the discussion on universal pre-K. ( “‘Step up or shut up’: County bails out universal pre-K program, calls out businesses,” Thursday )

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