Indianapolis hosts the Super Bowl this weekend, which means CEOs will be in town.
Gov. Mitch Daniels hopes to use the occasion to make a sales pitch for relocating factories and the like to the Hoosier State.
His legislature is about to make Indiana the 23rd state to give people the right to work without being forced to join a union or at least pay the dues.
The final vote could come as early as today, and the governor will sign the bill into law immediately.
Right-to-work will be part of his sales pitch to business executives in town for the big game.
"We've always seen this as a great opportunity to do our most important job, which is to try to bring more employment here," Daniels said.
As I read news reports on this development, I wondered, why not here?
Why do people in West Virginia have to pay union dues to get a job at a factory?
That is if they can find a factory.
Plant after plant has shut down because of unions and other problems, most recently part of whatever they call the aluminum plant in Ravenswood.
It's had more name changes than Chad Ochocinco over the years as management tries to deal with a rather rigid union, fails and sells.
Unions have been a problem throughout my 30 years in West Virginia.
Back in 1985, when West Virginia and 33 other states lost to Tennessee the race to land the Saturn car plant, the Daily Mail sent Richard Grimes to find out why.
Tennessee leaders told Grimes that West Virginia's expensive workers comp program, unemployment debt and precarious state budget were black marks.
But the biggest black mark may have been the state's union situation.
Tennessee is a right-to work state. That helps, according to Fred Harris, then director of economic development for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
"If workers would just think about it, right-to-work makes the union work harder for them," he told Grimes.
"They've got a choice whether or not to belong. I think they (unions) do a better job in Tennessee because we're a right-to-work state."
Eventually, unions got their revenge on Tennessee.
As part of the bailout of General Motors, the unions maneuvered to make shuttering Saturn part of the package.
But Tennessee need not fear. Its Nissan plant continues to expand. The latest news is that Nissan will build four-cylinder engines in Tennessee for Mercedes-Benz.
What does that say about the quality of work in Tennessee?
But as the Toyota plant in Buffalo shows, West Virginians can match the workers of the Volunteer State when it comes to making engines — and automatic transmissions and gears.
We are as good as any state and better than most.
Over the years, West Virginia has shed its albatrosses. Taxpayers paid off the unemployment compensation debt, and the state was one of the few that has not had to borrow money (and trouble) for unemployment comp during the Great Recession.
The state privatized workers comp, and that has resulted in reduced premiums for
most businesses.
The state's budget no longer teeters on the edge of deficits but records annual surpluses and one of the nation's largest rainy day funds.
In other words, three of the four hindrances to the state's economic development that Tennesseans pointed out to Grimes more than a quarter-century ago have finally been fixed.
But Indiana just upped the stakes. Gov. Daniels once opposed right-to-work, but he told reporters, "eight years of evidence convinced me we were going to need it."
It is time for West Virginia to get in the game and embrace right-to-work.

Surber may be reached at donsur...@dailymail.com. His blog is at http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber.