Our View: Decision to close MCEDCO can only do harm to county

3 February 2012, 3:42 pm

Eating our seed corn. Shooting ourselves in the foot. Cutting off our nose to spite our face.Pick your cliché for self-harm. Then apply it to the news that the Merced County Association of Governments, after 18 years, is closing the Merced Economic Development Corp."The decision to close it down was the result of dwindling public and private ... (more)... Read More »

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