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Gregory Scruggs

is a correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and a coordinator of the Puget Sound chapter of the Solutions Journalism Network.
Opinion

New York City

Why NYC should hope it loses Amazon's HQ2 sweepstakes

The case against Amazon for the Big Apple is easy: Just look at what has happened to Seattle. Antipathy to Amazon has palpably grown during the two years I’ve lived there, as Amazon’s vertiginous growth has made Seattle the country’s largest company town and fueled Seattle’s status as the fastest growing city in the U.S.