Listen up Adams County, an industry wants to bring a $90 million investment and 300 jobs to the county. Or you can choose to pass on the opportunity, instead settling for the status quo.

Deal or no deal?

OK, we’re borrowing the namesake catchphrase from the hit NBC game show to prove a point. The game is essentially a no-skill, all-luck game in which a contestant plays the odds and sees how lucky — or how greedy — he or she can be.

That comparison is pretty apropos of what will or won’t happen in the next six days in Adams County.

Corrections Corporation of America has plans to bring a large, private prison to the county. The only potential hurdle is whether or not residents send the issue to a vote.

Members of a small group of residents have circulated a petition in hopes of doing just that. Their deadline for securing enough signatures is Tuesday.

If the issue goes to a vote here — as the same measure recently did in nearby Pike County — the company will probably look elsewhere.

A signature on the petition, even if “sold” as a vote merely to exercise one’s right to vote later on the prison, is really a vote against it.

We wish Adams County didn’t need the prison. We wish dozens of huge corporations were lining up to bring magical industries that would employ our workforce, provide an economic shot in the arm and do so without disturbing anything.

That hasn’t happened and seems a bit unlikely. Let’s take the “deal” we have now, in hand, and not vote “no deal” to what may be the best option we have.