I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer — you may have noticed — which is why I didn’t pick up right away exactly what was missing from the N&R’s tepid Kay Hagan endorsement: the $68 million joint UNCG -A&T nanotech center. Sounds so much better than the paltry $500k for the furniture market, doesn’t it?
Surprising, since the N&R backed the Gateway Center — it’s the type of project newspapers just love. But the paper did suggest last week that Gov. Mike Easley delay some of the $857 million in capital projects financed through borrowing, which is exactly how Gateway Center was funded last year.
So it’s an interesting omission on the part of the N&R editorialists, and a cynical person might think it was on purpose. Borrowing doesn’t have a good reputation these days.
