SOMETIMES BAD NEWS is good news. That’s how I see the news this week that Micron did not choose Lockhart, Texas as the location of its new chip manufacturing plant. Micron chose Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. Why is the loss of a prospective 9,000 Micron jobs and 40,000 ancillary jobs a good thing?

Lockhart is the official Barbeque Capital of Texas. It’s a small town 35 miles south of Austin…