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Economic Development Secretary Rick Homans announced that the agency was earmarking $1 million in job-training subsidies for tribal governments.

However, the name of the mill has been changed by its new owner to Katahdin Paper, and the character of the place may be transformed, too, if Millinocket is to thrive and perhaps provide a lesson for other one-industry towns.

"It definitely will survive," Michaud said. But, he added, "it will no longer be the way that it was."

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"Increasing the survival rate of early-stage technology firms is one of the primary drivers of CIT’s strategy to accelerate Virginia’s next generation of technology and technology companies," said Peter Jobse, CIT president.

"The arts aren’t just the icing on the cake," said Steve Steinert, executive director of the Asheville Area Arts Council. "The arts give a city a unique sense of itself. People want to come here. People who are young and just out of college want to come here. People who are retired want to come here. The city feels very accessible to you." The arts not only encourage individuals to move to a city, but they can attract new businesses as well, a popular sociologist argues.

The other growing biotech cluster areas have lower costs of living, better housing affordability and less gridlock than the Bay Area.

"Our long-term goal is to provide an environment capable of sustaining a permanent local film industry that will provide long-term jobs for our film professionals," he said, adding that may mean as many as five or six film crews.

Are there shared institutions and traditions, a common infrastructure? Is it one labor market with overlapping and interdependent economic clusters? Are there cultural ties? Do businesses define this corridor as a region? Do people ignore the state line as they go to work and carry on their lives?