BCR's Daily Fishwrap Report for July 8, 2009

• The H-S' Monica Chen delves further into an NCSU economist's report that unemployment in the state could reach 13% by next year; he projects, though, that the recovery from the crisis in NC could be faster than that in other parts of the US, with falling home prices and a massive slowdown in new construction leading to a predicted uptick in housing sales. Still, retail sales in NC were off by almost 20% statewide compared with '08. (H-S)
• Construction's done on the old Durham Athletic Park renovations, and the project awaits merely its certificate of occupancy, coming soon. A mid-August opening celebration has been penciled in but awaits the project's full completion. No question, though -- it'll be done before September's Bull Durham Blues Festival. (The Durham News)
• 61 teacher coach positions have been created with stimulus dollars, DPS reports, and have been mostly filled by teachers laid off by DPS last year. Still, the state's budget crisis -- and failure to pass a budget that leaves DPS knowing what its budget will be next year -- has the district frustrated in its inability to sign a number of its teachers to contracts for the next school year. (H-S)
• Stormwater billing under the new annualized system, and with the new higher third tier for properties with more than 4,000 sq. ft. of impervious surface, starts this month. Property owners, not renters, are supposed to be responsible for the bill, and the City is reminding tenants to let the Stormwater Services Billing Unit know if the stormwater fee shows up in a tenant's name. (H-S)
• Academic and former presidential adviser David Gergen, a 1959 Durham High grad, will speak at the class's fiftieth reunion this weekend. (H-S)
• A fourth fox has tested positive for rabies -- the fifth such animal to test positive this year. (H-S)

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I am wondering if anyone knows if city side walks are calculated as an impervious surface on a home owners lot? (I called the city but the person that I needed to speak to is out of the office.)

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