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Sunday, January 25, 2004

Taft sticks with high-tech goal
State of State to renew Third Frontier

By John Byczkowski
The Cincinnati Enquirer

STATE OF THE STATE

As Ohio Gov. Bob Taft prepares for his State of the State address this week, he must balance a projected budget deficit with a crusade to create meaningful jobs, especially in high-technology fields.

The governor played his cards with Issue 1, a $500 million bond issue rejected by voters in November.

Issue 1 represented the final major funding leg of Third Frontier, a program designed to provide seed capital to develop new industry and jobs in Ohio based on biomedicine and high technology.

But the rebuttal at the polls apparently has not deterred Taft from pursuing Third Frontier's long-term goals.

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