Updates will be a bit scarcer than usual the first part of the week as BCR's hosting family in town for an extended July 4 celebration. Key stories from the papers today and this weekend:
- After reportedly donating billboard time for the favorite interests
of elected officials -- you did notice billboards for groups like the
anti-alcohol Durham T.R.Y. (hi, Howard Clement!) popping up all over
the roadways, didn't you? -- the outdoor advertising industry's turned
to law enforcement in their effort to win approval for
electronic/digital billboards. The offer to devote the billboards' time
to amber and silver alerts and the like won support from Sheriff Worth
Hill and, Hill claims, the DPD; the Durham Crime Cabinet board will
hear from the industry this Friday. (H-S)
- Mayor Bill Bell took exception with ongoing lobbying for moving tens of thousands of miles of roadways from state to local control in an op-ed piece he co-wrote with High Point's mayor for the NC Metropolitan Coalition. The article appeared last week in the Charlotte Observer. (H-S)
- The weather didn't put too much of a damper on the Festival for the Eno, with good turnout to hear this weekend's musical acts -- and the beneficiary, the Eno River Association, taking a firm stand of neutrality on the talk of a state takeover of the park, a discussion fueled by budget pressures. (H-S)
- The Green Tango salad shop on Shannon Rd. (in the same building that's the site of the new restaurant Eden) has closed; the Erwin Rd. Green Tango remains open as the local business's current sole location. (H-S)
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