Meanwhile, Winston-Salem City Council members travel to Durham to check up on the contractor for the $500 million expansion of Piedmont Triad Research Park.

Wake Forest University official Doug Edgeton isn’t worried, calling Steuver Bros. problems with paying contractors called the company’s problem in Durham a “pretty normal payment-timing issue.”

Wake’s footing the majority of the bill for this project, so if they’re not worried, taxpayers shouldn’t be worried, right?