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Osborne explained that there will be several benefits, including improving the Lubbock workforce, since graduates of community colleges tend to say in the area they went to school. It will also provide an opportunity for more citizens, who cannot travel to Hockley county, to go to school more locally. And finally, it will also be a pipeline for Texas Tech to grow, especially since students can be enrolled in both campuses at the same time.

On Tuesday’s edition of the Chad Hasty Show, Lubbock Economic Development Alliance (LEDA) CEO John Osborne shared some insight into the budgets, methods and purposes of Leda, Market Lubbock, and Visit Lubbock. LEDA was created in 1989 to use a sales tax to help smaller and rural cities compete with urban areas...

“If this was an easy problem to resolve, it would have been resolved years ago by the federal government and the state government,” said Medina.

John Osborne, CEO of LEDA, appeared on KFYO last week for an interview to discuss the many facets of LEDA and how the organization helps the economic engine of Lubbock

The Council heard many pros and cons about LEDA, considered Lubbock Power and Light's budget, and, in fairly close votes, approved the upcoming budget and tax rate.

Lubbock ranked 42nd in the nation out of all 365 metropolitan statistical areas across 23 economic and work force indicators by Area Development Magazine.

Osborne said Lubbock is the sixth most traveled destination among the top 26 Texas cities.

On Wednesday's edition of Lubbock's First News John Osboure, CEO of the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance, (LEDA) Market Lubbock and Visit Lubbock, talked with Chad and Rex about the effects tourism has on city of Lubbock.