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2116
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Some things local government observers predict for North Carolina in 2005 include financially sound cities; a clean environment; expanded information networks; an older, more diverse population; and the Triad, Charlotte, and the Triangle coalescing.
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2994
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Hurricane Bertha, which struck the eastern part of the state in July, 1996, left her mark on a number of towns, including Emerald Isle, New Bern, Southport, Beaufort, and Wrightsville Beach.
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1952
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After the worst workplace safety disaster in state history, the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire, the General Assembly strengthened OSHA by passing stricter laws, hiring more inspectors, and levying a non-compliance penalty on local governments.
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3067
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 raises a number of issues for municipalities, including regulation of public rights-of-way, zoning for cellular towers, and taxing authority.
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1981
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When environmental protection and economic interests clash, environmentalists, regulators, and developers have used negotiation as a means of settling disputes.
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2399
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To bring companies and jobs to their area, competing cities sometimes offer attractive incentives, like use of a speculative building. While this can be a sound business approach, it can also be detrimental, creating costs that have not been budgeted.
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2617
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Many cities have residential recycling programs, but few have ones for businesses. Greensboro's Environmental Business Partners involves over 100 businesses in recycling expansion and environmental education.
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2320
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Recycling by the state's municipalities has become profitable, bringing higher prices than two years ago. Because of previous contract commitments or insufficient personnel for handling recycling, however, not all cities are benefitting from the trend.
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2802
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Businesses move for a number of reasons: consolidation, bankruptcy, better offers. Some cities coping with recent losses are Greenville (Glaxo Wellcome) and Tarboro (Black and Decker).
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2765
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In 1993, Hendersonville elected a new town government that is addressing hard issues, such as annexation, congestion, infrastructure improvements, and long-range planning.
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2475
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Although nonpoint pollution (pollution not originating in a pipe) has such sources as mining, construction, and failing septic tanks, it took pollution spillage from collapsed hog waste lagoons to dramatize the need for closer management of this problem.
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2958
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Neotraditional communities, or communities with houses, condos, shops, schools, and offices patterned like old-fashioned neighborhoods, are developing in reaction to the isolation of suburban sprawl. Chapel Hill's Southern Village is the state's first.
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2993
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Summer parks and recreation programs offer young people across the state a variety of activities, including adventure, clown, and drama camps; music and art camps; and sports camps.
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2398
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When Hazelwood and Waynesville in Haywood County consolidate July 1, 1995, it will be only the fifth city-city merger in the state this century. Mergers of cities and counties are even rarer.
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2618
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U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno presented the 1995 William French Smith Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cooperative Law Enforcement to Raleigh Police Captain Michael L. Longmire.
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