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Amgen breaks ground on Holly Springs expansion

Biotechnology company Amgen broke ground on its $1 billion Holly Springs manufacturing facility on Friday. The Wake County expansion is both a recipient of county incentives and a state Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) supported by taxpayer funds. “We thought long and hard about where to build this plant,” said Bob Bradway, Amgen CEO, during the groundbreaking....

Katherine Zehnder
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Six N.C. city systems make list of ‘broadband boondoggles’

RALEIGH – A North Carolina municipal broadband network has made the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Dirty Dozen” — 12 high-profile taxpayer-funded internet projects that have cost the public more than $2 billion. The North Carolina network is MI-Connection, which provides broadband service to the Charlotte suburbs of Mooresville and Davidson. MI-Connection —$80 million in debt and has an annual...

Barry Smith

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