Davidson County Commissioners are considering millions in federal loans to get its own industrial park off the ground:
One of the loans the county is considering is a Community Development Block Grant that could be for an amount up to $7 million, at 2 percent interest. The other is a Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant for up to $2 million that would carry no interest.
Only one commissioner, Billy Joe Kepley, dissented from the vote to proceed with the loan process, saying he couldn’t support the park until school overcrowding in northern Davidson is fixed.
Back in Guilford County, the N&R praises the ‘political peace’ among the current group of county commissioners. Fair enough, two of the three commissioners cited for previous dysfunction were Democrats. But given that only two of the current group –Hank Henning and Alan Branson —(one more dissenting vote than in Davidson) voted against spending $30k for the feasibility study of the proposed data center park at the prison —one might think that political peace isn’t always the best thing. It is politics, after all.
