Editorial: Brea is playing developer with taxpayer cash

Costco, the ubiquitous Issaquah, Washington-based seller of food and consumer products, is so popular that it earned nearly $270 billion in revenues last year. That put it at No. 12 for revenues on the Fortune 500 list of companies. Obviously, the mega-retailer knows what it’s doing — and is perfectly capable of opening a new store without a government’s help.
Yet the Brea City Council voted 3-1 to “enter an agreement with a Southern California real estate developer to pu