March 29, 2024

Roll Up Our Sleeves – Leverage our Economy

Del. John Bohanan
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John Bohanan

Del. John Bohanan

 

“We have a very bright future,” Delegate John Bohanan told a crowded room of education and industry officials on the day the University System of Maryland formally announced it would locate a research and incubator facility near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

Southern Maryland could miss out on this bright future without these leaders “rolling up their sleeves.” Many in the room were among those who rolled up their sleeves to succeed at a similar task once before, Del. Bohanan said. In the early 1990s some of these same leaders addressed the Base Realignment and Consolidation streamlining of military bases across the nation.

Those efforts prepared St. Mary’s County with the infrastructure, commerce and cultural requirements a large new population of well-educated professionals required. Schools, colleges, universities, roads, and outreach to the contracting industry were among the results.

They delivered a very bright future, placing Southern Maryland’s three counties among the wealthiest in the United States.

Del. Bohanan performed a pivotal role in the 1990s efforts as the director of Congressman Steny H. Hoyer’s Southern Maryland office. During the intervening two decades he has become Senior Adviser to Mr. Hoyer, as well as a ranking member of the House of Delegates serving on the Appropriations Committee and specializing in education. He is considered an expert at legislation providing support and incentive programming for communities dependent upon defense spending.

The University System of Maryland Chancellor William ‘Brit” Kirwan praised Del. Bohanan as the insistent and persistent champion of what an active, topflight research university would be able to provide in economic growth for the entire State of Maryland.

This level and type of facility is the key to drawing the innovators and entrepreneurs who build the next generation technology. This is the bright future needed today.

Here Del. Bohanan exhorts community leaders to roll up their sleeves, warning this future is only available to those who prepare for it.

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