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The 2007
Salt Fork Legislative Conference was full of BIG IDEAS in the areas of
health care, energy and economic development. Grace-Marie Turner president
of the Galen Institute and Joe San Filippo, chief health care strategist
for Nationwide Better Health presented their thoughts on health care stressing
the need for new ideas that will not only bring health care costs down,
but also improve people’s health. Don McConnell, president of Battelle
Energy Technology discussed ideas for the future of energy, not only in
generation but also production. McConnell’s presentation was the perfect
prelude into a session on the history on Ohio’s electric restructuring
that featured Sen. Ron Amstutz, Rep. Lou Blessing and Alan Schriber, chairman
of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. That evening, the next (and returning)
president of The Ohio State University, E. Gordon Gee attended the pool-side
reception and met with the conference attendees.
Friday
kicked off with Bruce Katz, vice president and director of Metropolitan
Policy for the Brookings Institution. Katz presented the institution’s
latest report on revitalizing American’s older industrial cities and
then joined numerous legislators and attendees for an exchange of information
over lunch.
For the
first time in the long history of Salt Fork, Ohio’s governor and all
of the legislative leaders made presentations. Gov. Ted Strickland, Senate
President Bill Harris, Senate Minority Leader Theresa Fedor, Speaker of
the House Jon Husted and House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty all outlined
their goals and key issues going forward.
Even
though the conference had a diverse group of speakers, addressing a myriad
of issues all of them had one central theme: Ohio has the right “tools”
to be a leader in the nation. Ohio still has a manufacturing base that
can be adapted for today’s needs and a skilled workforce that is eager
for progress. Yes, the state has issues and challenges, but Ohio has all
of the resources to be THE state to live and work in the future.
The Ohio
Chamber would like to thank all of the speakers, particularly Gov. Strickland,
Senate President Harris, Sen. Fedor, Speaker Husted, Rep. Beatty and Dr.
Gee for making this year’s Salt Fork program truly one of the best
the Ohio Chamber has ever hosted.
If you
missed this year’s event, the Power Point presentations are available
below. Mark your calendars now for the 2009 event, September 9-11!
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