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Toyota plans to expand Huntsville engine plant with a new building, 125 jobs
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Toyota plans to expand its Huntsville engine plant again with a new 300,000-square-foot building that will increase the company's North American production of V6 engines.
The expansion will mean about 125 new jobs, bringing employment at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama to 1,150, according to Toyota. The building now takes in 780,000 square feet.
Gov. Robert Bentley made the announcement today. He was joined by Jim Bolte, TMMAL's president, and Steve St. Angelo, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America. The Birmingham News
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Move over, St. Joe, and make room for planned development the size of Rhode Island in Northwest Florida
When the St. Joe Co., dominating real estate developer and land owner in the Florida Panhandle, decided to pull back and hibernate in the tough economy, nobody thought any mega-projects were forming in that part of the state. Wrong. State and local officials have approved a 562,000-acre master plan -- timberland roughly the size of Rhode Island -- encompassing gulf coast frontage touching five counties. It's not St. Joe's but rather a parcel owned by some high-profile business types and former diplomats. Their goal: 25,000 new homes and more than 10 million square feet of commercial and industrial office space.
The owners, identified in this small item in the Wall Street Journal, include Howard Leach (left), former U.S. ambassador to France, and Los Angeles investor Robert Day (right), who reportedly together bought the land in 1994 from Procter & Gamble. Now the ownership group's grown with the additions of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone. Tampa Bay Times
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Fort Worth's botanic institute has a good thing growing
FORT WORTH -- "Prairie in Progress, Please Be Patient" signs dot the evolving landscape around the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
Ancient North Texas prairies aren't built in a day, after all. But one year does wonders.
"When you start with bare ground, it's going to take a while," said Brooke Byerley, a Ph.D.-holding botanist at the institute. "But all of our areas are doing really well, and some of them have just taken off this spring."
The institute opened its $48 million, earth-friendly building on University Drive a year ago, intending to use the outdoor areas, including the roof, to showcase dozens of species of native Texas plants and grasses that now seem rather exotic and wild in our manicured-lawn era.
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Much has been written about the need to expand and diversify our energy base. With the recent spike in gasoline prices and the Iranian threat to disrupt global oil supplies, some are calling for the equivalent of a Manhattan Project to develop alternative energy sources. Others say that renewables are still too expensive and that we shouldn’t encourage them at the expense of fossil fuels. The highly publicized failure of Solyndra has called into question whether the federal government should continue the U.S. Department of Energy loan program, initiated under the Bush Administration, to provide funding for alternative energy projects. Supporters of the program say that without government funding, we risk ceding leadership of the alternative energy market to China.
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By Glenn McCullough, Jr.
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On February 9 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission did something it has not done in 34 years: approve a license (two in fact) to build two advanced nuclear reactors. For a consortium of utilities constructing two advanced nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle on the Georgia-South Carolina border, this means major strides generating 2,200 megawatts of new electricity, enough for approximately one million homes and businesses.
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By Dan Juneau
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National, state, and local business groups from around the country opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “ObamaCare”) when it was being debated in Congress last year.
Many trade association representatives (including this writer) went to Washington to express business community concerns about the legislation and to request votes against it. History records that the legislation (all 2700 pages of nearly incomprehensible jargon) was finally enacted on party line votes in both chambers and signed into law by President Obama.
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by Mike Randle
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The headline above is of a great song from the '70s. It was by The Outlaws and was recorded in 1975 (go straight to You Tube to listen to it and bring the entire staff into your C-suite and rock on). I was a student but more like the starting shortstop for the University of Tampa Spartans baseball team in 1975.
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