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Brian Irizarry

Sep 20, 2026

13:48
It's okay.
13:48
No, I mean, it's all kind of interrelated.
13:51
Michigan Tech's a pretty big deal here.
13:53
Our hospitals are a pretty big employer here, and our public schools are a pretty big employer.
13:56
So...
13:58
Calumet Electronics has been doing a lot of good things lately.
14:01
And so we need to continue to invest in our infrastructure, our manufacturing that we have up here with our research, with Michigan Tech being an R1 research university, only three others in the state.

7 MINS LATER

21:08
And we're just running into that problem where we're becoming more self-sufficient and allowing ourselves to be more insular from these big brands that we're having that problem of a lack of local entrepreneurship.

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