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Every now and then, on this crazy planet we call "Earth," you come across a story so darned heartwarming that you need to take a prescription antacid. This is such a story. I found out about it from alert reader David Rankin, who sent me the Jan. 3 front page of the Sevier County (Tenn.) Mountain Press ("Sevier County's Daily Newspaper"). On it is an article by J.J. Kindred about a Danville, Va.-based textile company called Dan River, which was closing its Sevierville plant and laying off workers. Evidently, some savvy individual in management realized that the workers would be...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. “Our trading partners treat us much, much worse than we treat them.” — Allen E. Gant Jr., CEO of Glen Raven Inc. in Burlington, N.C. What are people supposed to think when they see their communities lose jobs by the thousands while attracting new jobs by the dozens? It´s easy to say we´re living in a time of economic transformation and that people have to be trained to work 21st century jobs. But those 20th century jobs have a good track record of paying the mortgage — and it makes little...