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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Friday, November 01, 2002

Well, here's a big shocker...Report: Alabama won't get new Toyota plant

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build its sixth North American auto plant in San Antonio, rather than Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia, according to Japanese business daily Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.

Alabama economic development officials reportedly had hoped Toyota might consider a 1,000-acre site in Fackler, a small community in the northeast corner of the state. Fackler is located roughly 30 miles from Huntsville, where Toyota is building a $220 million V8 engine plant. [...]

Back on September 17, (of course, stupid STUPID Blogger doesn't take you to the post, so you have to scroll down) I said that we might be blowing this chance due to a certain incumbent governor who just couldn't let himself pass up an opportunity to crow about something. We'll probably never know for sure if Pappy Don's (D-My Billfold) indiscrete blabbermouthery drove Toyota away, but it certainly didn't help matters. And the loss will undoubtedly be used by a certain raven-haired challenger to mock him.

posted by Terry at 2:30:00 PM

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