Area Spotlights

Meet Mark Parkinson, CEO of Kansas.

Southern Nevada has been a magnet for California-based firms seeking new locations for several years.

The Upper Midwest is not the first region of the U.S. that comes to mind when looking at the burgeoning solar-energy sector, but significant projects are happening across the region.

Massachusetts is well-known for its high-tech industries, with biotech and IT among the more visible sectors.

Move over, banking. The Charlotte region’s energy sector is on a roll, coalescing into an economic force with a critical mass large enough to attract new players of all sizes.

Sharp just made its 2-millionth solar panel in Memphis. CT&T is going to make electric cars in Spartanburg County, S.C.

2010 has been anything but ordinary for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. She has gained international attention with the state’s controversial immigration law.

It could be innovation in pipelines. It could be trucking, airport and shipping lines. It could be foreign trade zones and borderlines, and credit lines as well.

Basket case or horn of plenty? California is both — it depends on whom you ask. The Golden State’s business-climate burdens are well documented in the business press — including in these pages, where interviews with corporate executives

Oregon: Cluster Comes to Fruition

If Mike Meehan has his way, the Mountain West will become the preferred destination for small to medium-sized manufacturers seeking a home from which they can propel the spirit of invention across the country.

Plenty of Louisianans, especially in the economic development community, long for the days, not so long ago, when the headlines about Louisiana were about major new projects coming to the state.

Could Wisconsin’s plans for high-speed rail and its proximity to U.S. wind corridors have lured two Spain-based firms to Milwaukee

When a former U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is elected governor, and teams up with a lieutenant governor who fought corruption and crime as a federal prosecutor and sheriff, chances are they won’t back down

Knowledge capital and a pro-business climate drove AAA to Oklahoma City. Now, the giant auto club is expanding its reach from a city growing as quickly as its top employers.

No pun intended, but Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) on I-85 near Greenville is on a roll

When hundreds of Sioux City area rescue workers responded to the crash landing of United Airlines Flight 232 on July 19, 1989, they had no idea that the lessons learned from that event would one day lead the Iowa community to become a national role model for disaster preparedness and recovery.

Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth largest killer in the U.S., with one of the major sources of infection being catheters.

Boasting more than US$27 billion in revenues and more than 4,200 employees at such firms as Kindred Healthcare

If one could simply light a spark under the economic potential resident in the Great Lakes region

Hydro-Québec’s clean hydropower and plans to grow its influence on both sides of the border hold vast potential for economic development in all of Atlantica, and New England in particular.