August 2010
To win again
Regional Report Western August 2010
For a decade, western North Carolina has tried to brand itself as a magnet for creative, digital-age businesses.
Regional Report Triangle August 2010
Even in good times, downtown theaters and sports arenas can run in the red their first few years, and the Durham Performing Arts Center had no warm economic wind at its back.
Regional Report Triad August 2010
Regional Report Eastern August 2010
Supporters have called the proposed North Carolina International Terminal “America’s Next Great Port.”
Regional Report Charlotte August 2010
Sickly banks are often killed — “failed” is the polite term — and sold quickly to healthy ones, so as not to spook customers.
Modem come of success
Ghost in the machine
Not long ago, a crowd in the hundreds — large by the standards of your usual Raleigh political protest — showed up at the Legislative Building.
Economies of scales
Dad was the original bean counter,” says Jon Burns, president of Riverview Inn, a Charlotte restaurant that last year sold about a million dollars worth of seafood, fried in some 10 tons of oil.