Ed Legault, Executive Director for the Delta County Economic Development Alliance

12/20/21 • 23 min

David Haynes sits down with Ed Legault, Executive Director for the Delta County Economic Development Alliance to talk about what's happening in his part of the Upper Peninsula. Ed gives a review of some of the great things happening in Delta County, including new buildings, new businesses, and new projects. Also discussed are the issues of housing, child care, and health care in Delta County and what is being done to address the challenges in those areas.

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The Rural Insights Podcast - Ed Legault, Executive Director for the Delta County Economic Development Alliance

Transcript

David Haynes:

Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Rural Insights podcast, and we're excited to have with us today, Ed Legault, who is the head of the EDA in Delta County, Escanaba, and has lots of exciting things to tell us about. And Scott Spyra, who's one of our student researchers who worked on putting this together, is sitting in. So Ed, welcome. Welcome. We're glad you're here. We were just talking about, you grew up in Holton, moved as a young