Conaway: Data-driven benefits — for all — by the truckload
It wasn’t politicians that brought Ford here. It was data about the people and the promise of Memphis and West Tennessee. (AP file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
The new manufacturing site is named Blue Oval City after the iconic Ford logo and it will be three times larger than their current flagship Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan.
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