Tupelo honey
Everybody — well, the Memphis Commercial Appeal a half-hour ago and a Japanese paper, both picked up widely — reports that Toyota has picked not Marion, not Chattanooga, but Tupelo, Miss., for the big SUV plant. Tupelo and Mississippi apparently came with an end run after having reportedly been eliminated. It may turn out that one reason Mike Beebe stayed in Washington Sunday was to meet with somebody in a last-ditch pitch against what would be a very deep disappointment and sad loss for the Arkansas Delta. A Tennessee TV station says the governor there has been informed; we can assume Beebe has been as well. Officials everywhere are saying they'll talk tomorrow — the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce calling a news conference at 10 a.m.