Texas town lures industry, at a cost
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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An industrial park offering cheap labor, handy transport links and next door to major Asian markets should be a powerful lure for manufacturers looking for a competitive edge.
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Some companies are dealing with rising oil costs in unique ways.
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A shortage of natural gas besets the state's most populous area. In rural outposts, energy costs spike.
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Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.
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By Terry Lee Goodrich, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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A controversial city ordinance has thrust a small Pennsylvania town into the national debate on illegal immigration
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Two towns, one in Michigan and one in Kentucky, show the effects as the U.S. auto industry, and the prosperity that accompanies it, shifts to the south.
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Texas as a whole is booming, but across the stateâs outermost exurbs, formed by waves of new housing, building has ground almost to a halt.
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Most communities that lose business in spite of offering companies tax breaks walk away, but one town is fighting back.
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Circuit City gets a lump of coal in its stocking.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 14--ACarroll County town has been forced to give up on a conventional scheme for economic prosperity, but will likely wind up the better for it.
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By R.A. Dyer, and Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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The Mexican cement tycoon overpays in a quest for growth.
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The performers are not stars, but the price is competitive.
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By Lloyd, Jay  But the folks who flock to South Padre Island, off the southern tip of Texas, are anything but poor Reasonable prices The lure South of the border If you go ...  There's a long, slim spit of land on the Gulf of Mexico at the very tip of southern Texas.
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Real estate prices depend a lot on local conditions.