Editorial: Amazon played American cities for suckers
Over the 14-month "Bachelor"-like competition for Amazon's second headquarters, more than 200 cities across the country went to embarrassing and expensive lengths to woo the online retailer. City leaders raced to hire consultants, compile data and draft elaborate proposals, offering ever more generous financial incentive packages, all in hopes of landing the promised $5-billion corporate office with 50,000 high-paying jobs.
Although Amazon may have flirted with mid-sized cities like Pittsburgh and Denver, and eyed
