Take heart: Common sense, accountable leadership not dead yet
By Jeff Keeling When you deal directly with potholes, pill heads and peoples’ education, political…
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Macrochange at Microporous: Battery separator manufacturer attempting Phoenix-like rebirth
By Scott Robertson Travis Cunningham, production manager at Microporous, Inc., has seen good days and…
Alpha fighting UMWA in preparation for asset auction: $500 million stalking horse bid in place
By Scott Robertson Bristol, Va.-based mining company Alpha Natural Resources hopes to emerge from Chapter…
GO Virginia offers Southwest regional economic developers a hand up
By Scott Robertson Last month’s news from the King Institute for Regional Economic Studies that…
With systems’ merger application in, deciders making haste slowly
By Jeff Keeling Work groups are meeting in Southwest Virginia with health care access, quality…
Legislators can do right thing, readdress tuition bill
By Jeff Keeling When Tennessee’s commissioner of economic and community development struck a bullish tone…
Building business by building for businesses: Part one of a two part series
By Scott Robertson This month saw the release of the national construction cost reports. Cost…
Innovate or Die
By Scott Robertson Mark Costa, CEO of Eastman Chemical Co., gave a Trumped-up introduction to…
Continued FTC scrutiny likely despite merger’s proposed structure
By Jeff Keeling If the legal community’s blogosphere is close to being on target, the…
New King University study: Transfer payments a large and growing part of SW Va economy
By Scott Robertson One of the most basic ideas of a capitalist economy is that…