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Area Spotlights

December 9, 2013

Cropping Up

Funds from 2008 disaster recovery bonds will support a US$2-billion fertilizer plant in Indiana, even though Gov. Mike Pence pulled state support earlier this year over concerns about potential disaster from its parent company’s products abroad.

December 3, 2013

The Data’s in the Details

Chances are if you’re reading this anywhere outside of Cheyenne, Casper or Laramie, you don’t know much about Wyoming.

December 3, 2013

Big Skies, Open Questions

Corporate site selectors want to see a single digit next to states in rankings designed to shed light on their suitability for investment.

November 22, 2013

Getting Schooled

Forging new collaborations between universities and corporate investors is the linchpin behind the new business growth strategy of the desert Southwest.

November 22, 2013

Hungry?

In late 2012 when Hostess declared bankruptcy, a long line of Twinkie and Ding Dong jokes predictably exploded across the airwaves.

November 18, 2013

‘No Taxes Means No Taxes’

Ten years tax-free. Five years income-tax-free for new employees. Proximity to a 64-campus system of higher education with ample research assets and enrollment approaching half a million students. What’s the catch?

November 18, 2013

First Place To Turn

Cory Guimond’s grandfather, Philias Guimond, began building wooden boats in the small fishing village of Escuminac in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1942. Since then, over 600 boats have been built over three generations.

November 11, 2013

Flight Plan

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says the state his family has called home for five generations has a “unique marriage of assets.” Some of them just need a second honeymoon.

October 21, 2013

Visible Difference

“Push the infrastructure,” said Scott Condra, president of Jacoby Development, during a panel discussion at Brownfields 2013 in Atlanta this summer.

October 14, 2013

Still Ahead

Milken Institute’s fifth edition of its biannual State Technology and Science Index, issued this spring, revealed that competition at the top was getting more fierce. But that didn’t keep Massachusetts from ranking No. 1 for the fifth time in five tries over the past decade — this time by a wider margin.