It also concludes that such factors as work-force issues, roads and infrastructure and investments in education far outweigh tax incentives when companies decided where to build plants or expand. Analysts say a permanent rail or bus link between Durham and Chapel Hill may have trouble attracting enough riders to justify the millions of dollars it would cost to build. At best, computer models suggest the link would draw only about 2,700 more riders a day than local bus operators could serve by improving present offerings. Local leaders got the news during a briefing Monday afternoon. Their immediate reaction was dismay.
Some districts bend, wind and contort to find the right voters.
Some put two incumbent Republicans in the same district. And Democrats and Republicans agreed yesterday that a new Democratic proposal for redrawing districts in the state House would give Democrats at least 65 of the seats in the 120-member House. Supporters of LIFT Academy said yesterday that they have given up a two-year fight to keep the school's charter and the public money that came with it. Parents and students planned to attend the city-county school board's meeting last night to ask for money. The school's charter was revoked as a result of continuing financial problems in August, after a two-year legal battle with the State Board of Education.