Cindy Clarke has been executive director of the UNC Asheville Family Business Forum since 2006. Read more about her here.

Ray Farris, a new member of North Carolina's Order of the Long Leaf Pine, is a former UNC System board member who is critical of the current board's actions.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina won another contract to administer medical claims for North Carolina’s 700,000-member State Health Plan, which spends $3.2 billion annually

Ingles Markets’ shares, which have been pounded over the last year over worries of stiffer competition, gained 7.5% last week. It wasn’t enough to rank among the top three performers [...]