Another year, another round of tax breaks to retain corporations

“To the Arch by March.”That was the scary slogan circulating throughout Omaha back in the 1980s when both Union Pacific and ConAgra were threatening to move their corporate headquarters out of the River City. (U.P. was said to be looking at St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch.)That meant that hundreds of good paying jobs would be leaving Nebraska and that Omaha’s status as a...

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