Get as good as you give
Four years ago, Ken Lewis shouldered a shovel to move dirt and shape public opinion. Bank of America Corp.’s CEO helped plant 38 dogwood trees in Boston’s Franklin Park, settling a [...]
Would work
Stacks of headless bedposts and orphaned dresser drawers exude the acrid aroma of cut, cured hardwood. The screeching of planers, sanders and saws bounces off cavernous walls that echo workers [...]
Wendell Bullard
As a kid, Wendell Bullard had a practical, if unusual, answer to what he wanted to be when he grew up: “I wanted to be a businessman.”
Seeking critical mass
Cities and counties in the Piedmont Triad must work together to leverage the region’s assets if it’s to compete with the Research Triangle and Charlotte as well as metro regions outside North [...]
Regional Report Western May 2008
They’re finally getting somewhere with the Road to Nowhere. Sixty-five years after hundreds of Swain County families were moved to make way for Fontana dam and lake, officials are negotiating a [...]
Regional Report Triangle May 2008
Pick the phrase that best completes this sentence: A Yellow Pages directory is:
a) a useful way to find business phone numbers.
b) a pretty good doorstop.
c) unnecessary if you [...]
Regional Report Triad May 2008
Even the most ardent fans of wines produced in the Yadkin Valley have to admit they’re not cheap. Critics will point out that they cost nearly twice as much as comparable wines from California, [...]
Regional Report Eastern May 2008
Local opposition is knocking the wind out of efforts to promote renewable energy, but whether coastal ordinances that halt or tightly regulate electricity-generating windmills have them down for [...]
Regional Report Charlotte May 2008
Jeff Bennett swears he’s not trying to drive Wallace Farm Inc. out of business. But he thinks something needs to be done about it. His neighborhood near Huntersville in northern Mecklenburg [...]
Pat Riley
Pat Riley built houses while working his way through high school and college in Pennsylvania. In the last 17 years, he played a major role in building North Carolina’s largest privately owned [...]