BRAC
Guilford County isn't home to a big military base like some other places down east. But in economic development terms, the efforts to keep bases in North Carolina open is a statewide issue.
Lost in my e-mail yesterday was this release from Gov. Mike Easley:
RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley announced today that 37,445 acres within five miles of North Carolina's military bases have been protected from incompatible development since the last round of federal base realignments and closures in 1995. The U.S. Department of Defense has identified encroachment by incompatible development near military installations as one of the primary concerns as it develops plans to close and realign military bases and ranges.
Click here to read the whole thing. (It's a Microsoft Word file.)