Baltimore Checkbook: HQ2 pitches pile up at Amazon, while taxpayers remain out of the loop. Here's who's doing the bidding in Baltimore

Friday, October 20, 2017

HQ2 pitches pile up at Amazon, while taxpayers remain out of the loop. Here's who's doing the bidding in Baltimore

By all accounts the bids to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters are piling up at the company’s doorstep in Seattle, although few of those details have been made public to the very people with the most on the line: taxpayers. Cities and states across the country have been falling over themselves to compete for what has been called the largest economic development opportunity in a generation. The mere chance to land a global tech giant’s headquarters, which Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN)…