From the election front
City Council member Don Vaughan said in a candidate interview this week that he has reconsidered retail incentives.
In fact, Vaughan said he would make a motion to remove retail incentives (such as the type that would have gone to a new Wal-Mart at Carolina Circle Mall) altogether from the city incentives policy.
He did not say when, but we look forward to it.
Retail incentives are even worse public policy than other types of corporate incentives because they tend to have a negligible economic impact -- if not a negative one.
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