More Stories For You To Read

It is not easy writing stories for you, dear reader.

I want to make sure that you come back as many times as possible. In addition, I hope that you might find my website so interesting that you will encourage some of your friends to come here as well. In order to do so, it is very important for me to find different stories and give you my interpretation of them that will explain why I found them worthy.

Of course, I understand that you may not agree with me with everything that I write. In fact, you might wonder why I wasted so much time on a particular article. But that is okay. I try to make sure that what I write is something that will attract your attention.

Let me give you a very quick example of what I mean. I saw this story recently from Maclean's magazine:

Canada’s Most Dangerous Places 2018 

It listed over 200 "dangerous places" in Canada. Believe it or not, Windsor was one of the first cities in Ontario listed. It was number 65 in the list, the sixth Ontario location listed.  The Crime Severity Index also increased last year.

I moved from Windsor to Tecumseh several years ago. From a crime perspective, that was something smart to do. Tecumseh was number 216 on the list of 229 areas.

Naturally, if I was writing a longer story about these facts, I would provide a lot more details about the work that was done and its significance. However, all that I wanted to do this time is to show you how I find a story and then start to deal with it to interest you.

I better start writing some more stories for you, dear reader, because, after all, you now know the approach I take when I write them.

MORE ON QUICKEN LOANS

We do have to be excited by this subject. As I saw in this story previously:

“A beloved but crumbling downtown watering hole undergoing a multimillion-dollar makeover will soon be occupied by some of the brightest minds within the extensive financial empire of Detroit billionaire Dan Gilbert.

Employees under Quicken Loans — the mortgage-based business that boosted the Michigan businessman into one of the world’s richest entrepreneurs — will set up inside the former Fish Market and Loop building.

It is the first step into Windsor for Gilbert, who has recently touted this city’s advantages after leading a high-profile joint two-city bid to woo Amazon to open a new headquarters in the border cities.” (Dave Battagello, Windsor Star, October15, 2018) 

What however is even more interesting is what the impact may well be for this area. 

Check out the next story written in the Windsor Star on October 16 by Dave Waddell:

"Local tech companies welcome Quicken Loans as potential game changer.”

Here is the fundamental point that people ought to know about:  

“This is something a lot of people watching the tech industry in Windsor have been saying is required — greater integration with Detroit in the IT sector. This is exactly what we were look and waiting for in terms of investment.”

Here is a key thought about how important this could be for our area in the future

“For the first time, we’re hearing some Canadian commuters to the U.S. can’t get their visas renewed,” Abbruzzese said.

“American firms are not bringing talent over as easily, so you’ll have more companies come across the border.”

In other words, the tougher it is for a Canadian to work in the United States for an American company, the better it is for them to work for that company in Windsor.

Let me be blunt though. I hardly think that our area has been doing very well in the past given this comment:

“Windsor-Essex Economic Development Corporation CEO Stephen MacKenzie [said]:

“We’ve been making progress in the tech sector with four tech companies coming here in the last couple years in addition to Quicken Loans,” MacKenzie said. “This is a huge one though.”

Seriously, four companies only is hardly growing business here. The opportunity now is available to increase the number of people working here. Let's hope we will take advantage of the situation as quickly as possible.

OUR HEALTH IN THIS AREA

I read this comment about medical matters in this area and it really troubled me. My concern obviously arose because of my own age:

“We have a lot of challenges in our community,” Marentette said.

Among those challenges are an older population than the Ontario average that is going to increase in the coming decades, below average life expectancy, the lowest number of physicians per capita, a higher than average number of smokers, a growing substance abuse problem and above-average child poverty.” (Chris Thompson, Windsor Star, October 18, 2018)     

Regretfully, it is our reality.

I saw that Councillor Payne objected to paying out the amount requested. I must admit that I don't understand his attitude about it considering what is actually paid out. I regret that he did not agree that this comment made sense to justify the increase:

“CEO and chief nursing officer Theresa Marentette told the meeting that Windsor and Essex County are somewhat different from the rest of the province.”

It would seem that because of this difference extra money needed to be obtained. I agree!