2005-03

Fathead describes the pandemic's impact on barbers

The state faces a projected billion-dollar budget deficit for the fiscal year that starts in July. A report by Barry Poulson argues that a taxpayer’s bill of rights would prevent [...]

When the 1995 General Assembly quietly empowered an obscure advisory board with unprecedented authority to slow or kill proposed rules, business lobbyists beamed with satisfaction.

Members of a Southern Pines golf club who have feuded with its management for four years thought they would get a break when the club was auctioned off after its owner declared bankruptcy.

Charlotte’s Elizabeth neighborhood took root in the horse-and-buggy 1890s, but now cars on their way downtown flash past the old houses along shady East 7th Street. In one of those houses, [...]

A few weeks into 2005, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts directors followed a New Year’s resolution that investors had long been wanting them to make: Boot CEO Scott Livengood. The Winston-Salem-based [...]

They warned him: We don’t like monopolies, and if you create one, we’ll hold your feet to the fire. As if to make sure he got the message, the U.S. Department of Justice sent federal agents to [...]

John Ham is trying to relax. But he has been busy since his company, Huntersville-based Cultural Hangups Inc., hit the big time. In November, home-improvement giant Lowe’s began [...]

Frank Jr. called to tell me Derick had died. He thought I’d want to know. The obituary that ran in The Miami Herald the next day began: “Derick Daniels, a distinguished newspaper editor [...]

Bob Orr laughed recently when he found a cat collar with a bell in his office. It was a gag gift from a group he had addressed. In his speech, he recited the fable about a colony [...]