It's a quiet day in the fishwraps this morning:
- We were talking just a few days ago here about how the Triangle Expressway project had the $390m in federal loans it needed to help bridge a funding gap, and was just waiting to close on capital-market loans before moving forward with the electronic toll road extending NC 147 (the Durham Freeway) through RTP and along NC 540 to Holly Springs. Well, the H-S notes today that the $615m in private-sector bonds needed to start land acquisition is set to be issued in the next 10 days. The northern portion of the road is still on track for a 2011 opening. (H-S)
- Cora Cole-McFadden has put her hat in the ring for re-election in Ward 1. To date, neither Cole-McFadden nor Mayor Bell or Ward 3's Mike Woodard are facing any challengers. (H-S)
- Almost $80,000 in computers and electronics were stolen from UPS' depot on South Miami Blvd. late last month; several terminations related to the thefts have taken place. (H-S)
- Though it didn't make the finalist list, reps from Apple covertly scouted Durham as a possible location for their East Coast data center -- a facility that, despite its grandiose name and massive tax breaks, brings fairly few jobs and really is looking for massive land, cheap power, and plenty of cooling away from railroad lines and other interference. Maiden, in Catawba Co., won the prize. (N&O)
Wasn't Cora Cole-McFadden proven to have had a white transportation employee terminated in order to hire a more agreeable skin color employee?
Posted by: TrinityRez | July 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM