Bid For FBI Building Sets Off Regional Competition

WASHINGTON -- The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency - and attendant economic benefits - to their neighborhoods. The pursuit has turned congressmen from neighboring states into competing pitchmen, spurred newspaper op-eds and even required a public apology from an economic development official who disparaged another community biddin...