{"id":5500,"date":"2021-10-01T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:57:52","slug":"senator-sullivan-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=5500","title":{"rendered":"Senator Sullivan Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently attended a Roundtable discussion with Senator Dan Sullivan in Ketchikan with local elected leaders, business owners, and industry representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I value discussions such as these because I get to hear from the front lines what business owners and industries in Southeast are facing &#8212; it\u2019s important that elected officials know and understand entrepreneurs\u2019 challenges, concerns, opportunities, and successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was particularly important about this meeting was Senator Sullivan brought along with him the Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves.&nbsp; It\u2019s not every day a high-ranking federal official gets to hear directly from Alaskan business owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"810\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1-1024x810.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1-1024x810.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1-768x608.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Groundbreaking-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended a Roundtable discussion with Senator Dan Sullivan in Ketchikan with local elected leaders, business owners, and industry representatives. I value discussions such as these because I get to hear from the front lines what business owners and industries in Southeast are facing &#8212; it\u2019s important that elected officials know and understand entrepreneurs\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}