2010-11

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Coming to work

In the pieces that have appeared on this page for nearly a quarter-century now, I’ve often referenced, as I did last month, Burlington and Alamance County.
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Hoyle’s rules

Now David Hoyle gets to see what it’s like on the other side. For more than a decade, he has been one of North Carolina’s most powerful legislators.
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Regional Report Charlotte November 2010

This past summer, Charlotte-based Simonini Builders Inc. received word that Professional Builder magazine, the bible of housing contractors, wanted to include the company in its hall of fame.
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Regional Report Eastern November 2010

The Lumbee Indians of Robeson and surrounding counties have repeatedly failed to win real federal recognition for more than a century, but this time they like their odds.

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Regional Report Triad November 2010

In early September, Don Kirkman insisted that he was comfortable in his new role as the No. 2 person at the Piedmont Triad Partnership.

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Regional Report Triangle November 2010

ABB Group, a Swiss maker of power-transmission and -distribution equipment, is in the final stages of moving its North American headquarters from Norwalk, Conn., to Cary.

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Regional Report Western November 2010

Asheville-based Waste Reduction Partners uses a statewide team of 65 retired engineers and scientists to provide free assessments of how to reduce utility costs, hit goals for using sustainable energy sources and effectively use renewable energy.

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Taking the reward out of risk


Lately, I’ve been reading much about the “equity premium” — that extra bump in return you enjoy from investing in the stock market, where there is risk, rather than investing in government bonds and such, where there’s almost none.
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The land of plenty

A look at how new immigration has revived old fears about race, resources and diversity in North Carolina.
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Weighing the impact

The old oak trees that buffer its brick-and-glass campus from the rest of Winston-Salem wear the green flush of spring, but there’s little cheer in the executive suites of the state’s third-largest hospital.
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