Cleveland Thinking Twice About Awarding LED Contract to Chinese Company
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says the city council is going to take another look at a controversial no-bid contract recently awarded to
Sunpu-Opto Semiconductor Ltd. to provide LED street lighting. The GE Lighting business unit, which had called nearby Nela Park, Ohio, home for decades, had opposed the no-bid contract from the start and wants to submit a bid for the lighting. Sunpu-Opto is currently considering Cleveland as a site for a new U.S. manufacturing facility that's expected to employ 350. Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.