Find out whose life you could take over.

As a region and state, we’ve done a wonderful job marketing ourselves as “open for business.” But the best marketing will only get you so far if you can’t deliver on your promises. We need to take a hard look at our local workforce development efforts to ensure that the jobs that are being created are not going to go unfilled.

The Urban Institute says that $98.8 million was spent locally on the illegal sex trade in 2007.

During the Q&A an audience member says that after watching Boyhood she feels like she doesn’t want to watch anything else for the duration of the festival. I share the sentiment.