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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005
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FROM STAFF REPORTS
■ Carrboro police arrested a
homeless man and woman at 3:45
p.m. Tuesday and charged each
with one misdemeanor count of
shoplifting, police reports state.
According to reports, Rodney
Eugene Jones, 51, and Rita
Baldwin, 41, were arrested at the
Food Lion at 602 Jones Ferry
Road after a store employee saw
them hide two bottles of wine in
their coats and leave the store.
Reports state that police spot
ted the individuals leaving and
stopped them in the parking lot.
Police found one bottle of Taylor’s
Cream Sherry on Baldwin and
another bottle in a trash can at
Burger King.
Both are scheduled to appear
April 25 in Orange County
District Criminal Court in
Hillsborough.
■ Carrboro police arrested a
local man Tuesday and charged
him with one felony count of break
ing and entering, one felony count
of larceny and two felony counts of
possession of stolen goods, police
reports state.
According to reports, Jermall
Ivyance McNeil, 23, a Target
employee, was arrested at the
Royal Park Apartments, at 501
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the listed charges.
McNeil was issued a $2,500
secured bond and was scheduled
to appear Wednesday in Orange
County District Criminal Court
in Hillsborough.
■ Chapel Hill police have issued
a warrant for a local man involved
in an incident of assault on a police
officer and resisting arrest, police
reports state.
Reports state that at 1 a.m.
Wednesday, police stopped a
car on Rosemary Street near
Columbia Street for having ficti
tious tags.
When police approached the
car, one officer noticed a handgun
in the backseat of the car with
three individuals, reports state.
When the officer leaned into
the car, the driver sped away down
Rosemary Street, running several
red fights in the process.
Reports state that when police
found the car abandoned at 719
E. Rosemary St., officers saw one
person running from the vehicle
but could not catch him by foot.
Warrants were then issued
for the driver, Marlon Rasheem
Parker, 25, under the charges of
assault on an officer and speeding
to elude arrest.
Election plan shows divisions
BY THE
NUMBERS
53.2
Avg. percent registered
Democrats in proposed
northern districts
28.9
Avg. percent registered
Republicans in proposed
northen districts
4
Proposed commissioners
from Chapel Hill-Carrboro
40.2
Percent of nonresidential
tax base in Hillsborough
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Rural, urban areas clash over power
BY TED STRONG
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
A tiff over how the county elects
its leaders has led to another look at
the way the rural and urban sectors
interact in Orange County.
In an open letter to Rep. Bill
Faison, D-Orange, dated March
25, Moses Carey Jr. —chairman
of the Orange County Board of
Commissioners condemned the
bill Faison introduced earlier this
month that could lead to district
representation for some Orange
County commissioners.
Voters now elect the five com
missioners in countywide races.
Faison’s proposal would increase
the board’s size to seven and put six
of the seats on the ballot in district
elections, with one at-large seat.
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and sur
rounding areas would receive four
commissioners. The Hillsborough
area would receive one commis
sioner, as would a district including
territory along the county’s north
ern and western edges.
In his letter, Carey states that
Faison has “completely disregarded
the wishes of our board of commis
sioners,” calls upon Faison to with
draw the bill and announces that
he will ask Orange County’s other
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legislative delegates to “actively
work to defeat this bill.”
Many in the area have attacked
Faison’s proposal as political maneu
vering, designed to increase the
conservative voice on the Board of
Commissioners.
All five board members are now
Democrats, and it’s commonly
believed that the heavily left-wing,
more populous southern part of
Orange County overpowers the rest
of the county in elections.
But Faison has countered that
the issues at stake are cultural.
“When you get out to the rural
part of the county... the issues are
different, the issues are not about
urban life,” Faison said.
He maintains that his bill would
leave the Democratic hold on the
board intact. “I think it would be
inconsequential,” he said.
According to county voter statis
tics last updated Feb. 10, between
51 and 54 percent of registered vot
ers in each of the proposed districts
are registered Democrats.
At the same time, the pro
posed districts near Hillsborough
and along the edges of the county
each feature almost 30 percent
Republicans, while the more urban
area near Chapel Hill has fewer GOP
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members.
Regardless of what approach
is taken, few deny that real differ
ences exist between the urban and
rural sectors of the county.
Margaret Cannell, an ex
officio member of the Orange
County Economic Development
Commission, said the primary eco
nomic difference between the coun
ty’s rural and urban zones is that
urban zones have a single, driving
economic force in the University.
State government jobs paid 49.7
percent of all 2004 wages in the
county, according to county data.
But Cannell said the county’s
northern and western parts fea
ture a more varied economic base,
including agriculture and manufac
turing through facilities such as the
General Electric site in Mebane.
Faison said that the social differ
ence between country and town is
too complex to be neatly summed
up, but that views on land use are
a representative example.
He said some urbanites think
the countryside should be kept
open for beautification while liv
ing on tiny, densely packed lots
themselves.
But this presents an issue for
some rural residents, he said, many
of whom are land-poor.
“A lot of them (invest in) farms,
as distinct from the stock market,”
he said. “They don’t see themselves
as a bike path.”
Faison’s proposal has a long way
to go before it becomes law. He said
himself that other members of the
area’s legislative delegation will side
with the commissioners includ
ing Rep. Joe Hackney, the powerful
House Democratic leader.
Said Hackney on Wednesday, “I
am in favor of the county commis
sioners being given the courtesy of
an appropriate time to study the
issue.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydcsk@unc.edu.
CORRECTIONS
■ Due to a reporting error, the
March 29 article “State lotteries
have long, rich history” misquotes
Tandi Reddick, media relations
manager for the Georgia Lottery,
as saying that the lottery has made
$7-2 billion to date.
Reddick actually said the lottery
has returned that amount of money
to education.
■ Due to an editing error, a file
photo that ran with the March
30 article “Fiery offense pounds
Winthrop” misidentified the per
son pictured as No. 34, freshman
baseball player Chad Flack.
The photo was taken last year
and is of Sammy Hewitt, who wore
No. 34 for the Tar Heels then.
To report corrections, contact Managing Editor
Chris Coletta at ccoletta@email.unc.edu.
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