Linda Sullivan: Economic development — the Vermont challenge

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 first of a three-part commentary. Part 2 will be published Wednesday and Part 3 on Thursday.
I set out here, in this first of three installments, to address one of our state’s more perplexing challenges — our inability, and perhaps e