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July Newsletter
Note from the Director
IEI is known for looking ahead in its ongoing efforts to convene stakeholders to discuss and debate the challenges affecting North Carolina’s future growth and prosperity. However, soliciting innovative policy solutions and generating consensus recommendations often requires us to tie new ideas to past success stories. We are delighted, therefore, by the opportunity to enhance our public policy process through the North Carolina Interactive Gallery and Policy Space, set to open in the James B. Hunt, Jr. Library in the Spring of 2012.
Update On Programs
Growth & Infrastructure
IEI is pleased to be partnering with UNC-TV in its convening of Community Forums in Fayetteville and the Triad next month. The partnership will merge the efforts of IEI’s program of work on Growth and Infrastructure and PBS’s initiative on America’s aging infrastructure entitled "Blueprint America: Road to the Future."
Emerging Issues Debate
Financing our Future Infrastructure
Finance feeds the sinews of society: the transportation infrastructure, water and wastewater systems, our energy infrastructure, our educational facilities, and a host of other private and public amenities all depend on reliable capital markets and financial flows.
But the current financial crisis, with capital markets in turmoil, and state revenues in the tank, has combined with the long-standing structural problems of our tax system to make it harder than ever to fund our future needs.
If you would like to join in on the debate in an upcoming IEI Newsletter, please email us at institute@ncsu.edu.
Did You Know?
Asheville, North Carolina, was ranked the best place to live in America in 2007 by Relocation-America.com, largely because its a place where "artists and street musicians converge with tourists and locals for a vibrancy rarely found in a city of this size.”
So what about Asheville makes it this kind of creative community that attracts residents and visitors alike?
Faculty Fellows Update
Fellow Rich Cregar was featured in a June issue of the Triangle Business Journal for his efforts in developing and teaching a new program at Wake Technical Community College on the repair of hybrid automobiles. The program was prompted by a request from the city of Fayetteville, which needed to train its mechanics to service a growing fleet of hybrid vehicles.
