The Thanksgiving-week SiteNet Dispatch serves up a heaping helping of readers' letters. This "From the Mail Pouch" installment includes: economic development's place in the Internet age; "ironic" coverage of ethanol incentives; gown-growth connections in South Carolina; and multimodalism on the Gulf Coast. Your Fingers Can't Do All the Walking: "I assure you that neither we nor any other site selection consultant has all research [online] at our fingertips," BFPC president Jim Bruce notes in "From the Mail Pouch." This issue brings you new and exclusive stories from the November 2007 issue of Site Selection, including: Tennessee: "Ear to the Ground" (Expanded Web Edition) Aerospace: "Global Flights" IAMC Insider: "A Serious Passion" THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development and Louisiana Economic Development.

Clean Sweep: Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen holds up the first vacuum cleaner made at Oreck Corporation's new plant in Cookeville, which will employ 100-plus workers. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Oreck also chose the Tennessee city for a call center, distribution centers and some back-office operations. Also pictured, left to right: Oreck President and CEO Tom Oreck; Oreck founder David Oreck; and Tennessee Dept. of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "GreenPeak Opens New Office in Japan" "Credit Agricole Opens German Unit" "GAC Launches Offices in Europe and Asia" "Recruit Express Grows in Hong Kong" "Nokia to Invest in Indian Plant" Yes, there actually is a town that built its own huge Jolly Green Giant statute, which stands 55 feet (1,650 cm.) tall. See if you can correctly identify that city in the Dispatch's "Where in the World?" Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

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