Nice long Memorial Day weekend, so here’s catching up:
*Is N.C.’s unemployment rate more like 16 percent?
*The City of Greensboro will repair the historic downtown Cascade Saloon building, at a cost of $700k —after it acquires the building through eminent domain. Mayor Robbie Perkins says —according to the N&R — the city “likely will lose money, but it will be worth the expense to save the historic building”;
*Costs to operate the Greensboro Coliseum will rise $300k in the coming fiscal year;
*Protesters at Joel Coliseum gun show read names of gun violence victims;
*High Point Mayor Bernita Sims’ legal troubles stem from the settlement of her late sister’s estate;
*Differing views from local law enforcement officers on NTSB recommendation to lower the blood alcohol content threshold from .08 to .05;
*Alamance County jail generates $2.7m in revenue, some of it through the federal 287(g) program, which the federal government has since terminated.
