Amazon Has Brought Benefits - And Disruption - To Seattle

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press, Waco Tribune-Herald
Wed, 10/18/2017 - 12:38am

SEATTLE (AP) — Memo to the many places vying for Amazon's second headquarters: It ain't all food trucks and free bananas.

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