Up Front: Remembering the daily newspaper.

Free & Clear: If your goal is to reduce the overall weight of government regulation, sunset provisions are crucial. Rules should linger no longer than they’re needed.

Warren Buffett buys newspapers in North Carolina because he thinks they can still turn a profit.

Capital Goods: By deed if not word, part of the state’s political leadership appears to be whispering to the video-gambling industry, “Don’t go. We really don’t mean it.”

Cover story: Sharon Decker, who left corporate life to be a minister, shepherds the Department of Commerce’s conversion.

Rising on the Financial 100, VantageSouth bulks up small, weak banks by creating strength in numbers.

North Carolina lawmakers are weighing whether to cut incentives to the state's film industry.

Cary-based nonprofit EntreDot Enterprises helps entrepreneurs connect the dots and learn how to make their businesses a success.

Gov. Pat McCrory quickly backed off a proposal to cut the twice-annual High Point Market's state funding.

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is poised to leave after being named President Obama's secretary of transportation pick.

Asheville Regional Airport has struggled with passenger numbers since low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines started offering flights in nearby Greenville, S.C.

Up Front: We could use a bit more honesty when assessing work performance.

Charlotte food truck Tin Kitchen is branching out with a retail restaurant.

Closing House of Raeford Farms Inc.’s turkey processing plant in Raeford and hatchery in Rose Hill will hurt one of North Carolina's most valuable agricultural commodities.

No life-science company in the Triangle completed an initial public offering last year, illustrating the industry’s struggles since the recession. But three already have gone or filed to go public in 2013.

Industry insiders fear the sun will set on the subsidy that makes solar such a bright spot in a dreary economy.

Free & Clear: Politicians and activists tend to see other yards as green or brown depending on which color would be most convenient for their arguments.

Capital Goods: Relaxing certificate-of-need requirements is just one way GOP legislators seem intent on creating something resembling a free market for health care.

The Fresh Market’s slip in same-store sales won’t spoil the grocer’s expansion plans.