In April, a Swedish plastics manufacturer announced that it would be locating its first U.S. production facility in Gaston County, creating 22 jobs at an average salary of $59,132. That news merited a press release from the state Department of Commerce and a quote from Gov. Roy Cooper.
The announcement was welcome news, especially for Gaston County, but it also puts into perspective just how extraordinary recent announcements about companies coming to the Triangle are. Invitae, a genetic testing company, will bring 374 jobs at $90,000; Fuji Diosynth, a pharmaceutical company, will create 725 new jobs averaging almost $100,000; Google plans to bring a thousand high-paying jobs to Durham. And then thereâs the granddaddy of economic development announcements: Appleâs new campus in Research Triangle Park will be home to 3,000 employees earning an average annual salary of $187,000.
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Winston-Salem Journal. May 1, 2021.
Editorial: Police video law leads to mistrust
The tortuous slow drip of police video footage in the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City has confounded national media, which have struggled to explain this state’s convoluted police video law to the rest of the country.
Welcome to North Carolina.
And if it’s any consolation to our visitors, we don’t get it either.
As counter as the law is to the spirit of trust, open government and accountability, that’s how we roll here. And it needs to end.
And if it’s any consolation to our visitors, we don’t get it either.
As counter as the law is to the spirit of trust, open government and accountability, that’s how we roll here. And it needs to end.
Consider how, only a day earlier, the city of Columbus, Ohio, handled a similar situation very differently.
Following a fatal police shooting of a Black 16-year-old girl, authorities released body-camera footage of the incident within hours. In Elizabeth City, it will be a matter of weeks.
A Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that the police footage will not be made public, as both media outlets and the Pasquotank Sheriff’s Office had requested, for at least another 30 days.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The Triangle’s job market rebound isn’t showing signs of stopping. According to the latest data released by the North Carolina Department of Commerce last week, the Durham/Chapel Hill metropolitan statistical area reported a 3.8% unemployment rate in March, reflecting a decent drop from 4.7% in February. Raleigh is a close second, with unemployment dropping to 3.9% from 4.7% in February.
Both of these figures outpace the state’s 4.6% average (not seasonally adjusted), which fell 1% from the previous month.
The improving jobs outlook comes well before Apple begins hiring in the Triangle for the 3,000 positions it announced last week as part of a new $1 billion campus in the Triangle.
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