Port of Port Angeles Business Development Director to speak at PABA Meeting
Jennifer States, director of business development for the Port of Port Angeles, will be the guest at this Tuesday's meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association. She will be discussing current port projects and budget issues.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:40 AM
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Next month, Ms. States will present a slideshow on the Port leader's trip to Paris. She will show slides of their expensive dinners (but not escargot or whatever it is they eat over there) and will cap off the slideshow where the Port of Port Angeles joined other government agencies in throwing taxpayer money onto a massive bonfire.
Exactly. Already with a track record of failure with this very issue (composites), they are off to waste ever more money. Love the Port.
If people from far away (like France) see a map showing the location of Port Angeles, they would probably think the city and port are ideally located for provisioning commercial ocean going ships; for a bustling ship repair business; for so much more water-borne commerce than is actually located here.
I don't understand why the Port cannot concentrate on developing maritime industries instead of land-based or forest product ones.
Right. So everything need to provision a large ship, has to be shipped here in the first place.
It is a LOT easier, and a LOT more economical to move the ship to where everything already is, than it is to load up all kinds of trucks to bring supplies out on single lane roads for that extra 120 miles, just to start from the same place everything else already is at.
Believe it or not, there are a LOT of ports in the area. Port Angeles offers nothing by comparison.
Imagine crossing the Pacific with your load of Chinese made consumer crap, headed for the huge ports of Seattle, Tacoma or Vancouver to unload. After traveling those thousands of miles, and having only 50 or so more to go, you think stopping in Port Angeles to stock up on fuel and supplies makes any sense?
You think they are going to build a container ship loading terminal here? How about an oil port?
Port Angeles has been here for around 150 years. If it was profitable, don't you think the big ship guys would have notice Port Angeles by now?
Maybe the Port should convince the Navy that the new pier it wants to build at the Coast Guard Station should be built on Port-controlled tidelands on the inner harbor?
Off topic ( as most of this thread is)
I notice how the Western media and political machines are trying to portray the terrorist problems as being about religion, and extremist Muslims. Of course, because that distracts people from remembering our country is in those peoples' countries, and our country is killing "innocents" every day. Nobody disputes that.
Nobody disputes US drones, operating in countries all over, are killing innocent men, women and children. But the families are supposed to be okay with that, or else they are extremists. The US operates in over 150 countries, of the worlds' 198.
These countries are supposed to go along with having foreign troops killing civilians in their country, or else.
Think of that movie "Red Dawn", only change the names around, with the US and its' allies being the guys invading.
All about religion? Most Americans laugh at countries that make religion such a central focus. But, look at Americas' history with intolerance and religion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States
Has a pretty familiar ring to it.
How many politicians in the US want to make their belief in God the law of the land? Think about Gay Rights and abortion as examples of how the US government has told everyday Americans what they can do, based on religion.
Doesn't matter whether you're a believer or not, they decide you have to live by their religious beliefs.
Not so "foreign", after all.
The composite recycling center is a scam to use taxpayer money to finish a Port building. The recycling center will have no revenue, because they have no product or service to offer. Therefore every dime invested in facilities will be handed over to the Port, and every dime invested in labor will be a total loss! If anyone hands over grant money to this project they are fools. :)
It's not like it is THEIR money!
Don't you see the common thread? Poor Port Angeles. Can't afford to do ANYTHING. Can't even protect business owners, and they have to go hunt down criminals on their own.
We have enough money to build million dollar fake beaches. We have millions for the waterfront sidewalk.
We have millions to build the most expensive way to deal with rainwater in our sewers. We have millions for so-called raingardens in our streets.
But Port Angeles goes hat in hand to the State and Feds every time. We can't ever BE prosperous, otherwise we won't look poor, and we won't be eligible for all that grant money that pays for particular peoples' lives.
Sorry to burst all of your bubbles, but Jennifer States is not qualified for her job. I've met her, I've seen her interact with others, she a lost ball in high weeds. This Port recycling center is almost funny, no it is a joke.
I got an idea, instead of trying to create something with our tax dollars why not invest it in a business already here, maybe one creating jobs.
Come on Port, listen please, I beg you. Do something that will promote 50 to 100 jobs, not a few.
"We have enough money to build million dollar fake beaches. We have millions for the waterfront sidewalk. "
Wasn't that also grant money?
We're sure running a grant money scam here. Probably mostly initiated by the local so-called "conservatives" who scream about the deficit under Obama while applying for millions of taxpayer dollars.
"I got an idea, instead of trying to create something with our tax dollars why not invest it in a business already here, maybe one creating jobs. "
Because our local government officials are all useless. All they can do... the ONLY thing they're qualified to do... is waste taxpayer dollars. After Harborworks, Penply, Nippon, the Incubator... I don't trust them around businesses. They waste far more money than they generate.
I think the best thing they can do is pay off existing bills, slow down on these grants and then back off from "promoting growth". Focus on infrastructure and streamlining regulation. Cut taxes & utility rates. Make it affordable to live here. Make it nice to live here. The rest will follow.
All these leaders should move to where they go on vacations at.
"I think the best thing they can do is pay off existing bills, slow down on these grants and then back off from "promoting growth". Focus on infrastructure and streamlining regulation. Cut taxes & utility rates. Make it affordable to live here. Make it nice to live here. The rest will follow."
Smartest thing I've heard said in awhile.
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