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Amazon Donates CRT Book to Arlington Schools

by Hans Bader Amazon donated hundreds of copies of a racist, error-filled book by a critical race theorist to Arlington County public schools. In doing so, the Seattle-based company helped poison young minds and taught high-school students falsehoods about America’s … Continue reading

If Your Porch Is Piled With Amazon Packages Shut Up About Stay-At-Home Orders

by Kerry Dougherty Sometimes you read an entire news story and just one sentence sticks with you. That happened this weekend when I read an online piece on the pandemic. In it the experts admitted they’re not sure how or … Continue reading

Surviving COVID-19 with Video Chat, Netflix and Amazon Prime

Northern Virginia reader Allen Barringer responded to my request yesterday for readers to describe how they are coping with COVID-19. He started writing this piece as a comment, but it became so comprehensive that we decided to publish it as … Continue reading

Amazon to Create 1,500 Jobs in Hampton Roads

by James A. Bacon Amazon has announced the launch of two state-of-the-art operations facilities in Hampton Roads that will create 1,500 jobs. One is a multi-story robotics fulfillment center in Suffolk, creating 1,000 jobs, and the other a 650,000-square-foot processing … Continue reading

Amazon’s Security Collaborative: Cool or Creepy?

by James A. Bacon Amazon.com, Inc., is pushing for an intelligence-sharing alliance with law enforcement and emergency-management agencies around its Arlington office complex, similar to arrangement it already has with its Seattle headquarters, reports the Washington Business Journal. On the positive … Continue reading

The Curious Case of the Amazon Op-Ed

For decades, Stephen S. Fuller has been regarded as a regional asset. His study of the state’s economy as a professor at George Mason University has been praised as insightful, especially his idea that Virginia needs to diversify from its … Continue reading

How Moret and Moretti Won the Amazon Deal

Everybody who pays attention to economic development in Virginia knows by now who Stephen Moret is. He is the Louisianan, recruited to turn around the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and rethink the state’s economic development strategy, who landed the Amazon … Continue reading

Amazon Campaign Contributions: $75,000 and Counting

Speaking of alien overlords (see previous post)… I believe I’m correct in saying that Bacon’s Rebellion’s Steve Haner was the first pundit to note that if you like Amazon as a major player in Virginia’s economy, you’d better get accustomed … Continue reading

LaRock: Northam “Hijacked” Road Funds for Amazon

Money from Northern Virginia taxpayers meant to address traffic congestion has been “hijacked” by Gov. Ralph Northam to keep the governor’s promises to Amazon in the HQ2 project, charges Del. Dave LaRock, R-Loudoun, in a Washington Post op-ed. The state’s … Continue reading

JBG Smith Raises $75 Million for Amazon-Related Affordable Housing

JBG Smith, the dominant developer in the National Landing area where Amazon will build its HQ2 offices, has raised $78 million in an affordable housing initiative. The company hopes to raise between $100 million and $150 million in all. The … Continue reading

Bacon Bits: Boomtowns, Amazon, and Rent-a-Tribe

Pockets of prosperity. America’s big metropolitan regions may be sucking up most of the growth and prosperity of the current business cycle, but they’re not sucking up all of it. In crunching data measuring economic prosperity, population growth and rising … Continue reading

Arlington Welcomes Amazon 5-0 As Crowd Screams

The Arlington Board of Supervisors endured six hours of public hearing marked by local hooligans screaming at Amazon company representatives, then voted 5-0 Saturday for the modest local incentive package negotiated to bring the tech giant to a new location … Continue reading

Amazon in Northern Virginia: 5 Positives

1-The Future. In 2011 Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal titled, “Why Software is Eating the World.” The eight years since Andreessen’s essay was published have served to vindicate, validate and verify the accuracy … Continue reading

Amazon Local Incentives Not Worth A Revolution

One of the self-styled revolutionaries seeking to prevent Amazon from planting its second headquarters in Arlington County complains the local incentive package offered is $23 million.  A research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University puts the total … Continue reading

Amazon as Un-Apple

When Apple decided to build a new corporate headquarters, it designed a massive structure that resembled a flying saucer. The facility was an architectural marvel but it was entirely self contained, permitting no interaction with the surrounding community. It was … Continue reading