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Why We Must Stop the Blame Game
As a Marine serving a year-long deployment in Helmand province, Afghanistan, there are so many things that I miss about my home in Jacksonville, N.C. But I am just one of many service members who will not be spending the holidays with loved ones back home. For many Marines here, this is their third, fourth or fifth deployment — others have deployed even more. We chose to join the military to answer a calling to serve our fellow Americans or to make a difference in the world, despite the sacrifices required to do so. Being so far from home this holiday season, I look to the United States, and I am saddened, not because times are difficult, but because our nation is too great to suffer so. Americans have a strength born from overcoming adversity and creating opportunity where there was none before, and the challenges we face today are no different — if we can come together to serve each other. Time
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We thought this Top 10 was timely after hearing about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's radio ad campaign in the winter quarter that targeted California companies. In the ad, which ran on stations throughout the Golden State, Perry says, "Building a business is tough, but I hear building a business in California is next to impossible." With that in mind, here are ten great locations in the South for relocating California companies.
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By Mike Randle
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That headline represents the first eight words to the song titled "Mexican Radio" by the band Wall of Voodoo. The big hit from 1982 (No. 58 U.S. and No. 18 Canada) that was played about a dozen times a day on MTV in the music video era is awesome. The song was popular with the creative class (before anyone knew what the creative class was until Richard Florida told us), is often heard today on some of the most listened-to Internet stations such as Radio Paradise. Go ahead and buy some Mexican Coke at Sam's (that would be Mexican Coca-Cola), sit back, bring up "Mexican Radio" on YouTube and enjoy.
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FEATURE
By Mike Randle
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Do you think it was a coincidence that after Airbus broke ground on its $600 million, 1,000-employee A320 plant in Mobile, Ala., on April 8, that Boeing topped that deal by announcing it would invest another $1 billion and add 2,000 workers at its new 787 Dreamliner plant in Charleston, S.C., just 24 hours later?
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Editor's note: This article was the cover story of the latest edition of Southern Business & Development magazine, the parent company of The Randle Report. "It's good to be Nashville right now," said Nashville Mayor Karl Dean in a wonderful story about his city titled, "Nashville's Latest Big Hit Could Be the City Itself," published in the January 8, 2013 edition of The New York Times. The piece began with this: "Portland knows the feeling. Austin had it once, too. So did Dallas. Even Las Vegas enjoyed a brief moment as the nation's ‘it’ city. Now, it's Nashville's turn."
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