Leaders of the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center outlined plans Wednesday for a diminished future for the nonprofit agency, saying the loss of millions in state money will lead it to a focus on... Read More
Editorial by Jim Jenkins, News and Observer, August 29, 2013. The N&O’s popular Past Times column edited by Teresa Leonard is a sometimes-nostalgic, sometimes-serious look at stories about events of... Read More
As North Carolina’s unemployment rate remains one of the nation’s highest, the restaurant industry has been an economic bright spot by providing good-paying, reliable jobs in our state. In the... Read More
About 30 years, seven months and three weeks ago, when my first ex-fiancйe packed up and went back home to her mama – at least that’s who she claimed she was going back to – for the final... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, August 27, 2013. President Kennedy, no slouch at speeches himself, recognized a good one when he heard it. Watching on TV as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave... Read More
North Carolina Republicans are in trouble. Not only because of what they’ve done but because they’ve lost any sense of objectivity. They started believing their own talking points and dismiss any... Read More
From a news story in today’s Raleigh News and Observer regarding a provision in North Carolina law that may allow fracking to be carried out under people’s property without their consent... Read More
State Auditor Beth Wood released a new investigative report today on the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI). For nine months a technical services analyst at DPI filed for... Read More
To be fair to the governor of our state, his throw-off remark Monday about journalists' business literacy had a kernel of truth. Still, he protests too much. Here's what Gov. Pat McCrory said to a... Read More
Employment and income growth in the Raleigh market will outpace the nation for the rest of 2013 and into 2014, but all the new workers migrating into the region will keep the unemployment rate... Read More
