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Monday, December 31, 2012

Post-Gazette Series Pt. 2

Pittsburgh's Road to Tech Success Wasn't the Smoothest from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"... nearly 30 years after creation of the tech-driven Ben Franklin Technology Partners program, stakeholders say the state might never have recognized one of its greatest assets if the economy hadn't forced legislators to take a leap into the unfamiliar. "By that time, our unemployment rate hovered around 15 percent. We were in desperate straits and we had to try something different," said former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, who held office from 1979 until 1987."

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