{"id":83,"date":"2007-01-02T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/02\/noon-report\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T17:25:13","slug":"noon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/noon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Noon report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon,<br \/>\nOne story that hasn&#8217;t gotten much attention in all the holiday hub-bub is the rise in the unemployment rate. The rate in Orange County for November rose from 3 percent to 3.4 percent\u00e2\u20ac\u201da pretty big jump\u00e2\u20ac\u201d according the latest figures released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncesc.com\/pmi\/rates\/ratesmain.asp?init=true\">Employment Security Commission<\/a>. We now have a workforce of 68,669 with 66,348 employed and 2,321 out of work. A look at the county&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.orange.nc.us\/ecodev\/stats\/emplwage.htm\">top employers here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statewide, unemployment in North Carolina rose from 4.5 percent to 4.9 percent with 92 counties reporting an increase in claims. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncesc.com\/pmi\/rates\/PressReleases\/County\/NR_Nov_06_CntyRates.pdf\">Full report (pdf) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Few other things to note:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <em>Herald<\/em> on the state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/chatham\/13-804676.cfm\">rejection of Chatham&#8217;s wastewater permit application<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Orange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/161\/story\/526367.html\">Rescue squad wins grant<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Environmental Advisory Board is meeting Jan 4. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.carrboro.nc.us\/AdvBoards\/Agendas\/2007\/EAB_010407.pdf\">Agenda<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Planning Board is also meeting on the 4th. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.carrboro.nc.us\/AdvBoards\/Agendas\/2007\/PB_010407.pdf\">Agenda<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Recreation and Parks Commission meets Jan. 8 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.carrboro.nc.us\/AdvBoards\/Agendas\/2007\/RPC_010807.pdf\">Agenda<\/a>)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Board of Aldermen hold their first meeting of the year on Jan. 9. No agenda yet.<br \/>\nAlso, in case you&#8217;re wondering, the DTH starts back up on Jan. 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, One story that hasn&#8217;t gotten much attention in all the holiday hub-bub is the rise in the unemployment rate. The rate in Orange County for November rose from 3 percent to 3.4 percent\u00e2\u20ac\u201da pretty big jump\u00e2\u20ac\u201d according the latest figures released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state&#8217;s Employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}