Live Video: A critical conversation about Foxconn in Racine County

It’s a done deal.

But now the real work begins.

Gov. Scott Walker and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou signed the biggest economic development deal in Wisconsin history last week, a $3 billion agreement that could bring up to 13,000 jobs to the Racine area over the next few years.

But before that happens, there are hundreds of details to attend to, especially at the local level. And there remain big philosophical questions about whether states and localities should spend so much taxpayer money to subsidize economic development.

We’ll talk about all of that this Wednesday night at Prairie School in Racine.

Starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, watch this year's final installment of “Across the Divide,” a yearlong community conversation sponsored by the Journal Sentinel and WUWM (89.7-FM) about the issues that matter most to you.

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Here are the panelists:

•  Richard Longworth, a distinguished fellow on global cities at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Longworth, a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is the author of “Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism” (Bloomsbury USA 2009). 

•  Deborah Davidson, vice president, workforce and economic development, Gateway Technical College, Kenosha. Deborah has been closely involved in discussions about worker training as the region prepares for Foxconn.

•  John Dickert, president and CEO of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (Cities Initiative). John was a three-term mayor of Racine until resigning earlier this year to take the position with the Cities Initiative.

But the most important participant is you. We'll reserve more than half our time for audience questions — this time using a texting system to connect you directly to moderators Mitch Teich of WUWM and Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel.

If you can't be there in person, watch on Facebook Live.

David D. Haynes is editorial page editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Email: david.haynes@jrn.com. Twitter: @DavidDHaynes