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Honda's East Liberty, Ohio auto plant has begun mass production of the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour, reports the Dayton Daily News.

Honda is touting the vehicle as "a new type of crossover utility vehicle that combines the premium refinement of the Accord with the versatile characteristics of a sport-utility vehicle, including a highly functional under-floor storage area." Honda has some 14,000 workers in Ohio.

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To the energy industry, REX is the king of pipelines. For Zanesville's struggling work force, REX is the king of jobs, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The last leg of one of the largest natural-gas pipelines built in 25 years -- stretching 1,679 miles from Colorado to Ohio -- is being laid, welded and buried under fields just east of Zanesville. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Rockies Express, or REX will link the vast but remote stores of fossil fuel buried under the Rocky Mountains with the power-hungry markets of the Midwest and Northeast.

Original source: The Wall Street Journal
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