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MDN: Winds of Change

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MDN: Winds of Change Humans have been harnessing the power of the wind since the first Egyptians began to use sails to move their boats along the Nile. More than 7,000 years later, wind power capacity in the U.S. alone has surpassed 82 gigawatts, or enough energy to power 20 million homes, making it the largest renewable generation capacity in the country. … Closer to home, a planned project currently in the land rights acquisition phase known as the Plains & Eastern Clean Line is looking to further expedite this process. If everything goes as planned, the $2.5 billion project … Continue reading MDN: Winds of Change

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CA: Cavernous yarn mill to open in old Sanyo TV plant

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CA: Cavernous yarn mill to open in old Sanyo TV plant A yarn mill big enough to consume the Arkansas Delta’s entire cotton harvest will open in Forrest City and export yarn worldwide through Memphis and Western ports. Chinese textile producer Shandong Ruyi Technology Group plans to spend $410 million converting a former television factory into an 800-employee spinning yarn mill scaled to use 200,000 tons of cotton each year, Arkansas officials say. Shandong Ruyi’s high-tech mill will ramp up in stages beginning with about 400 employees earning average wages of $15.25 per hour. Investing in a yarn mill represents a … Continue reading CA: Cavernous yarn mill to open in old Sanyo TV plant

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MDN: Production Beginning at Big River Steel in Arkansas

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MDN: Production Beginning at Big River Steel in Arkansas Production is beginning at a new, $1.3 billion steel mill in northeast Arkansas. According to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Big River Steel has begun operations in its melt shop and hot mill at the new facility in Mississippi County. The steel mill was the first “superproject” to be approved under a 2004 state constitutional amendment that allows the state to borrow money to help lure major employers. The company says the first hot rolled coil at Big River was purchased by Zekelman Industries and will be sent to Atlas Tube … Continue reading MDN: Production Beginning at Big River Steel in Arkansas

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Arkansas.com: The Sultana vs. the Titanic

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Arkansas.com: The Sultana vs. the Titanic On the early morning of April 27, 1865, the Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing nearly 1,800 of the almost 2,400 passengers onboard. Many of those were former Union soldiers, on their way home from Confederate prison camps following the end of the Civil War. The boat sank near Marion and became, and remains, America’s greatest maritime disaster. Most likely, many people have never heard of the Sultana and do not realize the significance of the tragedy. One reason it escaped the attention of the citizens of the United States is because the … Continue reading Arkansas.com: The Sultana vs. the Titanic

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MDN: Arkansas State Says More Than 1,000 Interested in Mexico Campus

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MDN: Arkansas State Says More Than 1,000 Interested in Mexico Campus Arkansas State University officials say more than 1,000 students have expressed interest in attending the school’s Mexico campus when it opens for the fall 2017 semester. The Jonesboro Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2fuZDti) the campus is part of a planned 2,125-acre community development near Queretaro, Mexico, that includes commercial, residential and recreational features for about 70,000 residents. The university and its partner in Mexico began work on the campus in 2014. The $75 million project on 370 acres is funded by ASUCQ, a private business foundation in Mexico. … University officials … Continue reading MDN: Arkansas State Says More Than 1,000 Interested in Mexico Campus

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HGN: Big River Crossing reinterprets the Mississippi River’s role in transit

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HGN: Big River Crossing reinterprets the Mississippi River’s role in transit They started gathering around 6 A.M. People from both sides of the Harahan Bridge—in Downtown Memphis and in West Memphis, Ark. —wanted to be among the first to cross the nation’s longest pedestrian bridge across the Mississippi River. When the ribbon was finally cut the afternoon of Oct. 22, cyclists, joggers and dignitaries got a view of the river never before seen to the public. … Over a thousand people turned out for the pedestrian bridge’s big reveal during a day of festivities that lifted infrastructure to an embodiment … Continue reading HGN: Big River Crossing reinterprets the Mississippi River’s role in transit

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MBJ: Power products plant nears completion in West Memphis

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MBJ: Power products plant nears completion in West Memphis Sediver expects to have its West Memphis manufacturing facility up and running by March 2017. The $10 million, 70,000-square-foot facility will manufacture glass insulation products for power lines. When finished, the West Memphis plant will be the French company’s only manufacturing facility in North America. Sediver’s customers are often power companies, and it chose West Memphis due to an agreement to provide glass insulators to Plains & Eastern Clean Line, which is building a 700-mile direct current transmission line from the Oklahoma panhandle to Shelby County. William Tucker, plant manager for … Continue reading MBJ: Power products plant nears completion in West Memphis

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MDN: Residents Embracing Big River Crossing

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MDN: Residents Embracing Big River Crossing The Big River Crossing across the Mississippi River opened Saturday, Oct. 22, with a whistle blast from a restored Union Pacific railroad steam engine and delegations from each side of the pedestrian and bicycle boardwalk — Memphis and West Memphis – meeting in the middle. … The crossing was to open to the public at 1 p.m. Saturday but opened ahead of schedule. The $17.5 million project itself was completed two weeks ahead of scheduled and $1.5 million under budget, according to project manager Paul Morris. The Memphis delegation met at the Church of the … Continue reading MDN: Residents Embracing Big River Crossing

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Mother Nature Network: The Mississippi’s longest pedestrian bridge is now open for strolling

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Mother Nature Network: The Mississippi’s longest pedestrian bridge is now open for strolling West Memphis is one of those weird towns. For one, it’s not even in Tennessee. West Memphis is in Crittenden County, Arkansas, perched directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis — home of the blues and the best pork barbecue known to mankind (sorry, Kansas City). It’s one of those minor cities — or major suburbs, depending on who you ask — located within the metropolitan area of a larger city that just happens to be located in an entirely different state. It’s the same deal with … Continue reading Mother Nature Network: The Mississippi’s longest pedestrian bridge is now open for strolling

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City Lab: Say Hello to America’s Longest ‘Rails-with-Trails’ Bridge

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City Lab: Say Hello to America’s Longest ‘Rails-with-Trails’ Bridge Poor Charlie Rich. All the country legend wanted in his 1970 rocker was to find an easy way back to Arkansas from Memphis, Tennessee. If only he had written his Odyssean … Continue reading City Lab: Say Hello to America’s Longest ‘Rails-with-Trails’ Bridge