{"id":51724,"date":"2012-01-12T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=51724"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:34:30","slug":"missouri-jason-hall-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/12\/missouri-jason-hall-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri media report top economic appointment to Jason Hall &#8217;97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various Missouri media outlets, including the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/governor-picks-new-head-of-missouri-economic-development\/article_71be820c-3312-11e1-b6c2-0019bb30f31a.html\"> St. Louis Post-Dispatch,<\/a> note the appointment of Jason Hall &#8217;97 as head of the state&#8217;s Department of Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>Hall has run the quasi-governmental Missouri Technology Corp. since 2009. According to the <em>Post-Dispatch<\/em>, he&#8217;s &#8220;been one of the state&#8217;s pointmen on efforts to grow high-tech and science jobs. He also helped to craft MOSIRA, the fund recently approved by lawmakers to spark investment in those areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51725\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/lgbt_a0027508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51725\" class=\"wp-image-51725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/lgbt_a0027508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/lgbt_a0027508.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/lgbt_a0027508-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Hall \u201997 makes a point during a 2010 Bates Homecoming panel discussion on LGBT career issues as Bates PRIDE founder Larry Handerhan &#8217;05 looks on. Hall is the new director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development. Photograph by H. Lincoln Benedict &#8217;09.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Jason Hall is exactly the type of bright, energetic leader we need to help create jobs and move Missouri&#8217;s economy forward,&#8221; Missouri governor Jay Nixon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/governor-picks-new-head-of-missouri-economic-development\/article_71be820c-3312-11e1-b6c2-0019bb30f31a.html\">View story from the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/governor-picks-new-head-of-missouri-economic-development\/article_71be820c-3312-11e1-b6c2-0019bb30f31a.html\">Dec. 30, 2011.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various Missouri media outlets, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, note the appointment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":51725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[11051,11302],"class_list":["post-51724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-business-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51724"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724\/revisions\/118957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}