Linda Sullivan: Economic development — developing the will

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Rep. Linda Joy Sullivan, a Democrat who represents the Bennington-Rutland District in the Vermont House of Representatives and is a member of the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development. This is the last of a three-part commentary. Part 1 was published Tuesday and Part 2 on Wednesday.
Earlier this year I began hearing well-produced radio ads on VPR extolling a lightly populated rural state — Iowa — as a thoroughly business-frien