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"I cannot say that I support this initiative,'' [Darryl Moss] calmly told the crowd. "I'm really struggling. I made some commitments to support it, and I'm going back on my word, to some extent."
"My thoughts were to support it and go along with the rest of the crowd," he said in an interview the next morning. "But I sat there and looked at my neighbors and knew their concerns. I'm not a senator; I'm the mayor of a very small town. I have to live here and see these people every day. I couldn't in good conscience support it.""What will happen to the wastewater?" asked Granville County resident Elaine McNeill of NBAF's environmental waste. "What will happen to the animal carcasses?" She criticized the lack of transparency and public notification about the lab. "The public is always the last to know." PHOTO BY LISA SORGSee the full content of this document
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The Battle Against the Bio-Lab
Creedmoor Mayor Darryl Moss may have been the least important official in the conga line of high-ranking politicos, university übermen and bioscience bigwigs who attended a public hearing last month to entreat the Department of Homeland Security to site a federal germ lab in nearby Butner. Yet his words may have been the most important of the evening.
As Moss sat among the more than 400 people jamm...See the full content of this document
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