WINNER: SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR For generations, textile mills dotted the Carolinas, including Charles D. Owen’s, once the world’s largest blanket factory and by far the biggest employer in [...]
RUNNER-UP: SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR When October’s record rains stopped falling, Terry Kennedy’s phone began ringing. News photos showed cars floating down city streets and farmland turned to [...]
RUNNER-UP: SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR by Cameron Walker By his own admission, Zeb Hadley was a lazy teenager, so when he asked to borrow a pressure washer to start his own business, his father [...]
My Billy Graham credentials match a lot of folks who grew up in Protestant middle America in the ‘60s and ‘70s. My saintly grandmother considered his crusades must-watch television, on par with [...]
Here’s a near-universal experience for parents. Your family is visiting an out-of-town relative or friend, someone you haven’t seen in a long time. When your son or daughter walks in, you are [...]
by Edward Martin Overnight, Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center has become a small city with throngs gathering at the flashy displays of 1,200 exhibitors from around the world — Siemens, [...]