Lorain Councilwoman Mary Springowski -- a former autoworker, court clerk and project site secretary when Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Concourse C was being built -- doesn’t fit the mold of the expensively shod investment rainmakers typically found on both coasts. But Springowski has proven herself a versatile, fearless and skillful rainmaker right here on the North Coast.

The results, as outlined recently by cleveland.com’s Hannah Drown, have been truly transformative for the state and region -- initially setting the table for Intel’s multibillion-dollar play in central Ohio when Springowski boldly emailed then-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (using an email address she’d bought online) with her detailed pitch and a video presentation for why chip plants in water-rich Northeast Ohi

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