Cary is a pleasant town of winding parkways and manicured subdivisions, but it has suddenly run out of sunlight.
The leaders of North Carolina’s seventh-largest municipality are refusing to say why the town manager is on paid leave or why the town paid $37,397 to help Mayor Pro Tem Lori Bush obtain a master’s degree in public policy. The town won’t even say whether the manager’s absence and the tuition assistance to Bush – since repaid by her – are related.
The Town Council met for a work session Tuesday night and promptly disappeared into a closed session that lasted for more than two hours…