"Looking across many, many locations, we picked Ohio. Why? Because Ohio – at the heart of what it does – is manufacturing."

Kansas City-based Labconco picked a new president to replace Jeff Stanton, who retired after 31 years at the company.

"And on average, they aren’t just any jobs. These are family-sustaining jobs. The average manufacturing job, data says, is $70,000. Most of those come with benefits, but many, many manufacturers have production workers earning above $100,000 a year with overtime."

We hosted top officials with Honda, Intel, Amgen and American Nitrile to discuss how their expansions are helping rewrite the state’s future with innovation, investment and workforce initiatives.

Deal expected to make site the single largest fuel cell-powered high-performance computing data center in Silicon Valley.

Jim Bowman is a seasoned executive in the Dayton manufacturing scene