02/18/2009 - Kokomo mayor to discuss auto industry at Yale (Associated Press)
Kokomo mayor to discuss auto industry at YaleKOKOMO, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana mayor is traveling to Yale University to talk with graduate students there about the auto industry.
Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight says he will speak next Monday with business students who are working on a case study about the impact of auto job losses in Kokomo.
Yale is paying for Goodnight's trip to the New Haven, Conn., school, where the mayor expects to be asked about the need for federal loans to the U.S. automakers and how Kokomo is trying to diversify its economy.
Goodnight has been a vocal supporters of the government loans as his city has about 5,000 Chrysler workers and some 3,000 employees of parts maker Delphi Corp.
