It was taxes. No, it was infrastructure.

Whatever it was, it didn’t happen. Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar decided to build a new plant, with the promise of 1,400 jobs, in Georgia instead of southeastern North Carolina.

When the announcement was made last week, the explanations of this latest failure to fell the big economic development buffalo ran the gamut.

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