Google's Coming to Town

Well, actually they're coming to Lenoir, about an hour north of Charlotte, but it's all the same. By the time you get out to Charlotte's outer suburbs, you might be closer to there than here.

Google's getting about $100 million in incentives to invest $600 million to create only 210 jobs, but those jobs will pay about double the county's average, which doesn't sound so bad. I'm usually opposed to big tax giveaways like this, but I'm reserving judgment for now. Fingers crossed.