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Price keeps grip on district
Manages to appeal to Triangle voters
BY ARENDELL CARLTON
STAFF WRITER
Rep. David Price’s stronghold on
the 4th District of North Carolina
has been in place since Tar Heel
voters elected him to the U.S.
House in 1987.
And colleagues and pundits say
his grip on the area’s electorate isn’t
expected to loosen any time soon.
Though rumors have circulated
about Price’s possible retirement
in 2006, the congressman’s press
secretary, Bridget Lowell, said he
will not be leaving the House any
time soon.
So the Republican Party now is
left with the difficult task of finding
an opponent who can unseat him
this time around, businessman
Todd Batchelor.
Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s
Program on Southern Politics,
Media and Public Life, said he
believes Price’s popularity stems
from a combination of factors.
“He fits the profile of the kind of
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implement the broad design that
we have come to.”
Another concern of the DEDC
was the appropriation of public
funds for the project.
The board made it clear that
public funding from the town
needed to be avoided if possible
because the town does not want a
tax increase.
As the proposal now stands,
the vast majority of the project
will be privately funded, Strom
said.
WIRELESS
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to S7OO a month, Vogel said.
The Carr Mill Mall and Century
Center area should have wireless
access by Dec. 31, and the dumb
bell configuration of the network
should be completed by June
2005, he said.
The installation will offer
more areas of free public wireless
Internet access to people gather
ing in downtown Carrboro.
“We’re trying to create a friendly
place for laptops downtown,” said
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congressman attuned to the Research
Triangle,” he said. “These are people
who work at high-tech jobs, univer
sities or community colleges, people
who value education.”
Guillory also said legislative
redistricting has made the 4th
District, which includes all of
Orange and Durham counties
and part of Wake and Chatham
counties, more congenial to a
Democratic candidate.
Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., said
Price recently has pushed for feder
al funding for anew Environmental
Protection Agency laboratory in
the Triangle and has worked to
improve funding for UNC-Chapel
Hill and N.C. State University.
He also has secured more than
S6O million for the initial planning
and construction of a regional rail
service that would connect Durham,
Orange and Wake counties.
Miller said the plans are the
kinds of initiatives that have
made Price “a great asset to North
“We want this to be a self-financ
ing project,” Horton explained.
“Private money will be sufficient
enough to displace public costs.”
The group did not have the spe
cific financial analysis of the pro
posal’s total cost that the DEDC
had requested.
Horton assured the board that
financial information would be
available at the council’s public
forum Monday.
“We don’t want people to lock
on to numbers that are certain to
change in the upcoming weeks,”
Horton said.
The Town Council plans to hold
Carrboro Town Manager Steve
Stewart “It’s been very well-received
... and we are constantly looking for
areas to expand (wireless access).”
In addition to the six public
access points, additional private
access points will be created at
the Town Hall, Town Commons
and Century Center for exclusive
use by town departments.
Once the wireless zone is com
pleted, police with laptops in their
patrol cars will be able to access
information much faster.
“Now (police) won’t have to call
the station arid wait to get infor
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Carolina.”
But Batchelor said Price’s reign
has been detrimental to North
Carolina. “Mr. Price has, for over
16 years, been in support of tax
increases,” he said.
Batchelor also said that if he is
elected, he would vote to reduce
taxes and would oppose the rail
system. “A little less than 5 percent
of the people would use this trans
portation,” he said.
Instead, Batchelor said he thinks
federal funding would be much
better spent on improving the
highways in the Triangle area.
He also said Price’s support of
specific aspects of President Bush’s
K-12 education policy, the No Child
Left Behind Act, is hurting teach
ers and children.
But Guillory said Price’s record
and grassroots connection with
voters will help him in the end.
“He’s not a celebrity. He works
on real issues. That’ll make him
hard to beat.”
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another public meeting in October.
At that meeting, council mem
bers will discuss the plans further
after citizens have had a chance to
review the information presented
at the public forum.
“We’re trying to make decisions
that meet our goals and protect
the public interest at the same
time,” Strom said.
The DEDC was created by the
council to address the joint inter
ests of the town, University and
private sector downtown.
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mation,” Vogel said. “They can do
searches right from their cars.”
He said there will be different
access points based on use. “The
construction of private and public
access points keeps the public on
their own network and the police
on their own network.”
Laptop users who want to access
the wireless network in downtown
Carrboro can obtain directions on
how to connect to it at http://www.
tocwireless.net/go.htm.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
CONCERT
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young voters with this event. “First
of all vote, then vote for Erskine,”
he said.
Bowles will face off against
Republican candidate Richard
Burr in the Nov. 2 general election.
He is leading Burr in the polls by
10 percentage points.
In a Survey USA poll taken from
Sept. 6 to Sept. 9 for WBTV in
Charlotte and WTVD in Durham,
Bowles garnered 50 percent of voter
support; Burr gained 40 percent.
Bowles, White House chief of staff
during the Clinton administration,
lost the 2002 Senate race to Sen.
Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C.
But Tuesday’s concert was more
focused on the music for a cause
rather than party politics.
Johnson explained to the crowd
that there were no speakers because
the campaign wanted to keep the
atmosphere casual.
For his part, Kishore said he
wanted to help the Democratic
cause.
“We’re just trying to rock the
fuck out.”
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I wouldn’t be here.”
He said that although construc
tion has not been pleasant, he is
excited about the end results.
Kukovich said he already has
received a positive reaction from
customers.
“I think this is good for down
town,” he said. “In fact, I’m sure
of it.”
Betsy Hayes of Peacock Alley,
a store that has been located at
HIGH SCHOOL
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increase in the cost per square
foot to rising prices for steel, oil
and electrical contracts.
A memorandum from Scroggs
to Pedersen stated that square
footage had been reviewed but that
no additional areas were available
for reduction.
The package that would
request a funding increase of $3.4
million over the current budget
included reductions in construc
tion materials, kitchen and media
furnishings and retaining walls
and sidewalks.
Scroggs said the district would
University Square for 23 years,
said she has been happy with the
renovations, despite a variety of
difficulties.
She said she is hoping the reno
vated square will draw new cus
tomers, especially students.
Moshier said the final phase of
renovations will include contin
ued improvements of sidewalks
and renovations to awnings and
landscaping.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
have considered these changes
even if the project had not gone
over budget.
Lisa Stuckey, vice chairwoman
of the board, said she liked the
design of the building because it
would blend in with the feel of
Carrboro.
The design includes features
like extra windows for natural’
light, solar panels and a system
that uses rainwater to flush the
toilets.
The high school will be located
on Rock Haven Road in Carrboro
and is expected to open in 2007-
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