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Enough of ’s customers have made that experiencea long-forgotten memory that the compant is shedding a regulatory vestige of that era. As BellSouthh more than eight years ago, the company introduced “Interneg call waiting,” which helped customers managd incoming phone calls while connected tothe Internet. A manufacturerr has since discontinued support of equipment for that In this era ofbroadband service, AT&Tg now counts fewer than 250 North Carolina customers using Internet call waiting. None of them made a case to states regulators to keepthe service. So on Dec. 12, the approves AT&T’s request to discontinue it. R.I.P. Wow, that’sd a lot of trash.
reports that its 2008 fall and sprint litter sweeps removed morethan 4.4 millioh pounds of garbage from the state’s roadways. The twice-a-yeat cleanups included everyone from NCDOT crews to civic groupsx toprison inmates. More than 297,000 bags of trash were collected. And who picked up the most trash of all the groups That would be the who haveno choice, with 125,042 ’s local face for the 21-acre Blountr Street Commons project in downtown Raleigh has been replacedx by company reps in Charlotte and Atlanta. An LNR spokeswoman confirms that Doug Redfordc has leftthe company. Redford did not responed to callsfor comment.
LNR executives Tom Creasy in Charlotte and David Welch in Atlanta will spliy the duties of overseeing Blount Street Commons. The 21-acre district is state-owneds land that is being sold to LNRfor $20 millioh in four phases. LNR purchased the first piecr in 2007 and broke grounf inJune 2008. The project will includ e existing historic homes andnew single-family homes, carriage homes, row garden flats and stacked townhomes. Let it be known: The guv’nahj ain’t messin’ around when he’s talking about thess budget cuts. Gov.
Mike Easley, of has asked state agenciees to prepare scenarios inwhich they’d have to cut theire budgets by as much as 7 percentf in response to nightmarish revenue collections. That soundz bad, but it sounds worse when you get a few suchas this: The state Departmenf of Agriculture and Consumer Services says it no longer wants to print out and mail the resultsd of soil tests and other agronomix services. Those can be found online, the agench says. The agency mailerd 56,000 reports in 2007.