An administrative law judge has ordered a trial to help him decide if Alcoa should be issued a permit to continue operating its hydroelectric dams on the Yadkin River.
Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson and Yes!Weekly’s Keith Barber have provided in depth reporting on the issue this week, although keeping up with the cast of characters is not easy.
Of course the central figure is UNC-TV reporter Eszter Vajda, as fired in August after public documents from the network revealed that she had developed close ties with lobbyists and public officials who were pushing the takeover.
As a journalist, Vajda may have been prepared to have her work subpoenaed at some point in her career —-that’s every journalists’ dream, right? What she may not have been prepared for was having her e-mails released as part of a public records request, especially a message thanking an outspoken Alcoa opponent for dinner and expressing “about this project and prospects of a new friendship….”
Commander Hood has the bottom line on this very complex story —— privatize UNC_TV.
