Amazon says thanks, no thanks, to Utah's HQ2 proposal

SALT LAKE CITY — While over 200 cities, states and provinces responded to the $5 billion/50,000 job carrot dangled by Amazon's secondary headquarters proposal back in December, all but 20 got the stick Thursday — including Utah — when the company released its short list of finalists.
The call for proposals for the so-called HQ2 incited a scramble enticements and incentive offerings from prospective hosts for the new campus, but Utah's approach, led by the Governor's Office of E