My attention was drawn to an obscure article on the BuffaloNews.com website linking Verizon’s sizable lobbying budget ($9.3 million from 2006 -2009 to State and local government) to considerable subsidies ($614 million or $3.1 million per job) that the company is poised to receive in exchange for building a proposed data center in Niagara County. The publication points out, rather sensibly, that the two could just be coincidental! In recent years, Verizon has employed anywhere from seven to...