The People’s Business

The People’s Business: December 9, 2019

Monday

Finance Committee meeting: 4:30 p.m. 2nd Monday of every month, City Hall
101 N Main Street, Room 239. Finance Committee Agenda-December 9, 2019

Public Safety Committee meeting: 6 p.m. 2nd Monday of every month, City Hall
101 N Main Street, Room 239. Public Safety Agenda-December 9, 2019

Tuesday

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Workers work on the steel frame of the new Forsyth County Courthouse. The $115.6 million project (parking deck included) is expected to be completed in 2023. The courthouse/mass incarceration intake center will be the most expensive building every constructed in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County. ...

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Housing and labor activists are right to question Atrium/Wake Forest's Innovation District. Affordable housing and living wages must be part of the bargain. @housingjusticec #WakeUptown

Queen City Nerve @queencitynerve

Ashley Hawkins with the Southern Piedmont Central Labor Council says she has heard some responses to SPCLC and @housingjusticec's demands for more equitable commitments in this development, but no hard facts or numbers. Those demands can be found here: https://qcnerve.com/5-things-to-know-community-orgs-make-innovation-district-demands/

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Dion Beary @hashtagdion

The Housing Justice Coalition and AFL-CIO have partnered together to produce a list of demands for the Charlotte City Council re: the proposed "Innovation District" @AtriumHealth is planning. The project is asking for $75M in publicly funded incentives. The demands are below.

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The only positive I see from Wall Street vultures acquiring Lee Enterprises (@JournalNow) is that it could be a catalyst for locals to launch a new website focused on local news. The Journal has been slowly dying for years under Media General, Warren Buffett, and Lee Enterprises.

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"Lee Enterprises’ plan would kick in if Alden gets control of 10% or more of Lee’s stock in the next year. At that point, other shareholders could buy shares at a 50% discount or get free shares for every share they already own." #AldenLee

Post-Dispatch owner adopts ‘poison pill’ as it weighs Alden offer

The plan could flood the market with additional shares and dilute the stock, making it more expensive for a buyer to acquire a controlling stake.

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Briana Brough @bribrough

Lee Enterprises owns multiple small-to-midsize dailies in NC. This takeover would be terrible for the media ecosystem here. https://twitter.com/sarafischer/status/1462800938490552323

Sara Fischer @sarafischer

NEW: Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits, has announced an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises, a local newspaper firm, for $24 per share. (Statement below)
— Alden acquired remainder of Tribune earlier this year

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#NoThanksNoGiving @PovertySkola from @poormagazine liberating the settler lies of private property wit so many indigenous warriors for truth on #ThanksTaking @kriphopnation @IMIXWHATILIKE @pastorsandhya @DrRupaMarya https://twitter.com/abolitionistlc/status/1463516543699017740

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Tomorrow. #NoThanksNoGiving. 4PM PST/7 EST. Join Indigenous Action for the livestream via http://www.indigenousaction.org/live and donate at http://www.indigenousmutualaid.org. @RedSleevesACA @LadyShugDrag @poormagazine

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GSO motel transforms into a Winter Emergency Location:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/greensboro-motel-transforms-into-a-winter-emergency-location/ar-AAR6iKQ?ocid=msedgntp WS/FC could have transformed the old Budget Inn at Peters Creek and Academy into a shelter. Instead, WS/FC spent millions of tax dollars to demolish housing units for a stalled redevelopment project.