Area Spotlights

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.

Colorado continues to embrace a leadership role in renewable energy.

V&M Star, the U.S. division of Paris-based Vallourec & Mannesmann, plans to invest US$650 million and create 350 jobs at a new steel rolling mill in Youngstown, Ohio.

In September 2009, Yung “Benjamin” Yeung, the Chinese-American chairman of Far East Golden Resources’ company Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corp., announced that the new company had selected Baldwin County, Ala., for a new US$4.3-billion plant to build natural gas-powered hybrid electric vehicles.

Illinois: FutureGen Project Adds Industrial Endorsements

A chartreuse ray of optimism is shining through Southern California these days in the form of an array of high-tech jobs classified as green.

Today, at a site near the Mississippi River in Tunica County, Miss., just south of Memphis, Tenn., the company is gaining its first manufacturing perch in North America

A company that began as a University of New Mexico spinoff in 1993 now makes high-tech products used on all seven continents and in outer space.

Historic timelines can be telling indicators. Short timelines can be winning indicators.

What was once a decidedly unclean signature industry is reinventing itself in Indiana.

Energy industry expertise reigns supreme in the south central United States.