Higher thinking on creative businesses

The Piedmont Triad Partnership has finally recognized there is a good enough creative talent in this area...enough to warrant a report, which was released to the media last week. NC's top business leaders said last week that creative businesses and the arts employ 29,000 people in the Piedmont Triad and their growth will help the region create more jobs, this from a N&R article last Friday.

At one time, these businesses probably employed more. Remember, there are a lot of unemployed (or underemployed) journalists, PR folks and other creative talent in this area.

But the talent that is here needs to be cultivated so that they can remain here.

Nonetheless, the report is welcome, and I am hopeful it will be set in motion and a plan put into action to create more of these types of jobs in our state, and particularly in this area.

E.C. :)