Flight
By Mitch Berg
Minneapolis company expands – in North Dakota:
An aviation manufacturing company could create about 100 jobs in Minot the next two years if a proposed loan is approved by the city council.Administrators of a fund that provides incentives to new and existing businesses in Minot wants to loan $500,000 to Heliplane of Minneapolis.
While 100 more manufacturing jobs would have been pretty useful here in the Twin Cities, I suspect our happiness at paying for the better Minnesota.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
It’s a good thing you didn’t suggest that tax policy had anything to do with this move. We know from the VitalMedix fiasco that tax policy isn’t a consideration for companies.
October 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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