{"id":39,"date":"2011-03-11T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:40:00","slug":"project-firefly-at-the-eada-business-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/project-firefly-at-the-eada-business-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Firefly at the EADA business mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There was tension in the air at the EADA meet and greet meeting that felt like lightening building in a gathering storm. I was a little early, and after greeting several of the board members, I took my seat at one of the two tables in the board room of the Technology Center. Both WELY and Ely TV were there, and the EADA was there to discuss Project Firefly. I was there to finally find out just what Project Firefly was, and what it was going to do to benefit Ely. I was a gadfly looking for a Firefly. I could almost see it glimmer and fade off in the distance, and I heard a lot about it, but I never got a good look at it. Essentially I wanted to know how two hundred thousand dollars of grant money was spent, and to what purpose it was spent. The meeting was conducted by Bill Roloff who acted as a spokesperson for Project Firefly. I can tell you Project Firefly is there to help local inventors working on potentially important projects that if nurtured to fruition, may someday create jobs in Ely in the not too distant future. I can not tell you who those people are or just what inventions they are working on. I asked about patents and they told me be patient. Being a gadfly I pressed to know something of just what those projects were. I was told it was none of my business, because it is a private matter between the EADA and the inventors. By the end of the hour the meeting had reached a point of calling all this interest in Firefly, and how the money was spent, was nothing but a witch hunt against Bill Roloff. I wasn\u2019t hunting Bill Roloff, I was chasing fireflies. I am still chasing Firefly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was tension in the air at the EADA meet and greet meeting that felt like lightening building in a gathering storm. I was a little early, and after greeting several of the board members, I took my seat at one of the two tables in the board room of the Technology Center. Both WELY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[14,143,145,13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elyminnesota.com\/elybuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}