The author compares the economic impact of the recent closure of a Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Blakely, Georgia, to the closure of railroad maintenance shops in McComb, Mississippi, decades earlier.

A historic paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, closed in August after more than 178 years of operation. Political efforts to keep the mill open provided a brief, but ultimately unsuccessful, reprieve for ...

CHILLICOTHE – As Jeff Allen drove past the place he worked for nearly 37 years, he looked toward the sky and witnessed something in early December that he hadn't seen in months. Smoke billowed from ...