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Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Eric Fanning urges action on relief legislation and public-private partnership.

Northrop Grumman is bringing 500 jobs to rural West Virginia. Could Hyperloop One be the next Mountain State blockbuster?

Oklahoma launches new programs to spur economic recovery across the state.

A measured, data-driven approach guides the state’s COVID-19 response, says Clint O’Neal of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

As e-commerce surges in step with the virus, so does cold chain. Insights and location news from Pfizer, Paris-based Worldwide Flight Services, CBRE and Hillwood President Mike Berry paint a picture of what’s happening and what’s still to come. (Watch for more logistics coverage in the annual infrastructure issue of Site Selection.)

It is with great sadness that I report to you that Adam Jones-Kelley, our beloved company president and CEO, passed away this week at his home in Peachtree Corners, Georgia.

With 4.3 million residents and a $238 billion economy, the Northeast Ohio landscape looks as ripe with opportunity as ever. Find out why as we explore major corporate expansions, a bracing COVID-19 response, new industrial site and workforce programs, the rise of Voltage Valley and the value of the region’s “Emerald Necklace.”

The best location right now for cloud service providers? Everywhere. Google and Alibaba plan massive investment. And we present our data on top countries, global metro areas, U.S. states and U.S. metro areas for data center facility projects.

State and local governments are as squeezed financially as businesses and households are. Ellen Harpel, founder of Smart Incentives and president of Arlington, Virginia–based Business Development Advisors, writes that incentives will have to evolve accordingly.

In a companion essay to Publisher Adam Jones-Kelley’s recently posted Letter From the Publisher, “Are We Better Than This?” Senior Editor Gary Daughters says the spotlight now shifts to corporate America in the struggle to recognize racial inequality, support economic empowerment in black communities and back minority entrepreneurs. He also talks to a prominent economic development leader about his own recent “driving while black” episode with local police.

Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, says it’s time for exactly that. We explore the details, with side trips into TSMC’s $12 billion semiconductor manufacturing bet in Greater Phoenix; Manufacturing USA’s 14 institutes; a vision for optimum vaccine production from AccelerateHT; Alibaba’s support for direct-to-consumer digitized manufacturing clusters; fast action on PPE by GM, 3M, Ford and others; and a conversation with America Makes Director of Strategic Partnerships & Community Relations Erin O’Donnell.