We here at BCR are glad to be back on a diurnal schedule after a nocturnal Monday, and we're back with two days of Fishwrap for your reading pleasure. It's thick, like the newspaper on Thanksgiving, but with less glossy coupons to slip out of your fingers and into your cereal bowl.
- City Manager Tom Bonfield is quoted in yesterday's Herald-Sun about the need for a "defensive budget" for FY2010 -- with a projected up-to-$40 million deficit due to hiring, pay equity/adjustment and rising benefits costs (up to $26m) and rising debt and operating expenses ($6-14m). (H-S)
- Scarborough & Hargett, the African-American funeral home and community institution, is on the move again thanks to the forthcoming downtown courthouse, with the H-S noting that it's 24,000 sq. ft. facility will include a banquet and meeting facility capable of hosting up to 1,000 people. (H-S)
- City Councilman Howard Clement's outreach for dialogue between the owners of South Durham's new Adam & Eve store and some local residents angry at the store's arrival at Fayetteville & NC 54 has fallen short, with the store's owner declining to a meeting. (Thinking, perhaps, why bother? The store's already approved and City officials don't have a leg to stand on regarding its right to operate, according to published reports.) (H-S)
- Italian agrochemical firm Sipcam Agro is moving its US headquarters from Georgia to Durham adding up to 30, mostly local hires, by the end of '09. (N&O)
- The Bull City's Hampton Dellinger lost his bid to become Lt. Gov. in the Democratic primary, but is now angling for one of the three US prosecutor slots in the state. (N&O)
- NCCU has a temporary solution to its parking woes, a plan to lease 350 parking spaces from local churches and work with DATA to provide bus service between campus and the off-site lots. (H-S)
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