BCR's Daily Fishwrap Report for January 2, 2009

• Ray Gronberg has more on the state of transit discussions. Wake, Orange and Durham leaders are discussing within their counties -- but, it seems, not much between their borders -- a strategy for transit, including how to wrangle local sales tax dollars out of the General Assembly. With the failure of Triangle Transit's original dating-to-the-90s rail plan several years back, though, the now much-larger Wake County sees its leaders concerned that any revenues raised in Wake should stay in Wake for transit, a move that could strongly limit the financial base for a system that would connect western and eastern part of the Triangle. (H-S)
• Pizza Palace closed after this year's New Year's Eve bash, with the Guess Rd. building's landlord not interested in renewing the lease; the Rodenhizers report there may be a "next time" for Pizza Palace to find a new home in the Bull City, this time one the business would own. (H-S)
• The Eno River Association announced a $1 million purchase of 60+ acres from the Brame family; this acreage has been added to the Eno River State Park and will help to build the Mountains-to-the-Sea Trail and horse paths. (H-S)
• The economic slowdown and falling consumer spending is hitting ad agencies, with downtown's McKinney letting eight employees go and falling to a total employment level of 160. (N&O)
• Apparently attacking law enforcement vehicles is a sport rising in popularity, and one no longer affecting just state troopers, after a man took a golf club to a D.P.D. cruiser yesterday. (WTVD, WRAL)

Comments

[Todd]

I am sorry to see Pizza Palace go. It was a family-friendly, locally owned restaurant - something we need more of, not less.

Maybe they will return in a higher profile location.