Micron Delays Again

Micron Technology Inc. announced late Thursday that it is again delaying the announcement of the site for its $1.3 billion expansion.

The company said in a terse statement that the decision between Oklahoma City, Omaha and Utah County, Utah, could be delayed until the end of next week.

The computer chip maker had originally said it would announce the site selection last Wednesday.

But the competing states have continued to up the ante in financial incentives to lure the expansion and the up to 4,000 new jobs with it.

Four Idaho sites, including Post Falls, were ruled out earlier this year after the state refused to create an independent engineering school in Boise as Micron had demanded, offering $6 million to the state in what one official called nothing more than a bribe.

But it was the same tactic the company used in the late 1980s when it cajoled the state into building a $10.5 million School of Technology in Boise to keep a major plant expansion in the city then.