NY is open for business
Roll Tide
I caught that ad while watching TV one day and thought “how about gun makers?” After all, Governor Cuomo told them and anyone who was not a liberal to get out of NY. Anyway, I’m late to the party but Remington is opening up operations in Alabama and with it adding 1,600+ jobs. Cuomo is saying NY is not losing those jobs. I’m betting they will.
I was a bit disappointed since I heard through someone who would know that Remington was considering Tennessee for a long time. Guess that didn’t pan out.
February 17th, 2014 at 7:33 pm
Too bad they didn’t bring them to western NC. Lot less chance of getting hit by an F5 tornado here. Just sayin…
February 17th, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Tennessee has some errr corruption issues for the umpteenth year in a row.
February 18th, 2014 at 9:10 am
What’s this? The Union line no more than begins to waver, and you fall to quibbling amongst yourselves? It is unseemly, sir, and beneath the calling of a gentleman. Buck up there, and ride to the sound of the guns.
February 18th, 2014 at 9:11 am
@Robert, as a HSV resident, I can tell you where Remington is located is at a low risk for getting hit by a tornado. When you overlay storm tracks from the last 30 years, the storms go through the same 4 or 5 places nearly every time. If you live outside those bands your chances of getting hit are no worse than anywhere else in the SE.
February 18th, 2014 at 10:56 am
As a TCL resident, I will second aerodawg. The Bibles-A-Million down by the interstate in Tuscaloosa got hit two or three times while I was an undergrad at UA; the campus itself hasn’t ever been struck. Admittedly, the last big strike was very close to campus. As close as I ever want to be to anything like that ever again, personally.
February 18th, 2014 at 12:24 pm
@aerodawg, Limestone county just to the west of Huntsville is definitely one of those “bad luck” areas. (getting hit by two F5’s on the same day, plus other tornados at other times) The plant itself may be fine, but where the workers live also makes a difference.
February 19th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Good for Remington and its employees.
My brother has lived in Huntsville for 20 years and seems to like it.
It’s nice to see the gun industry doing what the auto industry began 10 – 15 years ago.
These high-tax northern states are going to cave in under their own weight or, alternatively, have productive areas which support the formerly productive areas.
We will see many more exodus’ like this.