2007-10

Keith West stood 6-4 and weighed about 260. Nearly 40, the ex-Marine had gone soft around the waist, but his arms still looked as hard as tree trunks. His size served him well in his business. He [...]

As business editor of The News & Observer, Dan Gearino wrote a weekly column, but one annoyed the executive editor so much that he pulled the plug. “I’ll stipulate the charge: My [...]

At Beaufort County’s largest employer, 1,050 workers follow a daily routine: Ore from the mine goes in, and out comes phosphoric acid and other compounds to make fertilizer, fire retardants, soft [...]

n 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that moving garbage constitutes commerce. As a result, New Jersey couldn't prohibit Philadelphia from trucking trash across the Delaware River into the Garden [...]

It began as a rich man's folly — a French Renaissance chateau in North Carolina’s hillbilly highlands. George Vanderbilt, grandson of steamship and railroad magnate Cornelius “Commodore” [...]

Every year, convenience-store suppliers get together for a conference, and every year, it seems to Sherwin Herring, there’s talk of consolidation. “Our industry has the worst return on investment [...]

Within an eight-day stretch earlier this summer, two news reports appeared in my local paper that, when taken together, perfectly illustrated why the banking industry’s relationship with its [...]

Banks pulled off plenty of mergers between 1994 and 2004, often cutting costs in the process, yet their charitable giving didn’t suffer, according to a study of seven large banks and their [...]