Looks like I have a new neighbor. It makes sense for Google to open an Arizona office for a number of reasons, but I’ll spare you the Chamber of Commerce rap. For me, it’s a signal that Google is moving into the payments business. Amex, Discover and many others have their payment headquarters here because space is (relatively) cheap; the cost of living is (relatively) low. There are an increasing number of skilled workers moving here and it good for us to expand our employment base beyond the service industry.

Spoken like someone running for Congress in a few years?