OUR VIEW
Taking shots from the outside
There's always going to be a critic on the outside looking in.

Remember when we landed the Louisiana-Pacific plant? There was a dismissive story in the Press-Register about how much the state paid per job in incentives to lure the OSB mill to Clarke County.

It looked down its nose at this rural county and bemoaned how much money was spent to get the manufacturer here.

Now Alabama has landed the ThyssenKrupp steel mill, the incentives leveraged to get it make those offered to L-P look like pocket change.

And we've seen no editorial hand-wringing from the staff down in Mobile over how much money was spent to get ThyssenKrupp, just as we predicted over a year ago.

It's amazing how proximity to a large economic development project can change someone's perspective.

But we do give the Press-Register credit. This Sunday, the paper did run a piece in its opinion section from a Georgia professor bemoaning the size of Alabama's incentive package to ThyssenKrupp.

It just goes to show, things are always worse when your community isn't the one landing the jobs.

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