Articles
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Regional Report Western June 2011Volvo Construction Equipment North America LLC will cut 220 jobs — averaging $82,500 a year — from its Asheville sales and rental operations by September 2012. |
2011-06 |
New cash crops from old seedWith a multibillion-dollar budget hole to fill, it’s no wonder that state lawmakers have looked past traditional sources of income.
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2011-05 |
Pulling stringsDustin Miller met his man in a cramped bathroom inside the El Paso, Texas, airport — two guys and a big guitar in one tiny stall.
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2011-05 |
Regional Report Charlotte May 2011Nexxus Lighting reached an agreement to sell its light-emitting-diode bulbs through Lowe’s.
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2011-05 |
Regional Report Eastern May 2011The North Carolina Global TransPark’s $39.7 million IOU to the state Escheat Fund underscores Benjamin Franklin’s axiom that those who go borrowing end up sorrowing. |
2011-05 |
Regional Report Triad May 2011Miller Brewing Co. tried in the ’80s and lost. So did developer-turned-reality television star Donald Trump in 2004.
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2011-05 |
Regional Report Triangle May 2011For a purveyor of pornography, Adam & Eve has become a respected business leader.
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2011-05 |
Regional Report Western May 2011Volvo Construction Equipment North America LLC will close its sales and rental operations in Asheville by September 2012, moving 220 jobs — averaging $82,400 a year — to Shippensburg, Pa. |
2011-05 |
Regulation playIf anyone decides to compile a list of the most unsettling sentences ever found in a news report, I’ll nominate this candidate.
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2011-05 |
Signs on the dotted linesTo detractors, they are “litter on a stick.”
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2011-05 |
Thrills and spillsIt’s not unheard of for a journalist to risk his neck for a story, but Doug Kalajian had his throat cut reporting one.
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2011-05 |
Under the Yellow FlagThe NASCAR season roared off to a storybook start Feb. 20 when an implausibly young and polite unknown won the Daytona 500 in a car gussied up to look like David Pearson’s old Mercury, down to the gold “21” on its flanks.
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2011-05 |
Assessing the corporate tax rateIn any reasonable era, a year such as 2011 — which is to say, a moment squarely between national election cycles — ought to be politically muted, a time of respite when the partisan troops rest by their campfires and debate the next day’s tactics.
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2011-04 |
For what it’s worthFamily Dollar Stores Inc. touts low prices for its merchandise, but the business itself isn’t cheap.
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2011-04 |
Objecting to trial lawyersMore than any other profession, trial lawyers have been identified with Democrats.
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2011-04 |
Regional Report Charlotte April 2011Nabeel Hyatt had an idea for a new company — two of them, in fact.
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2011-04 |
Regional Report Eastern April 2011It’s tough to recruit and retain businesses when your electricity costs are a third higher than the state average, so it’s no wonder that some leaders of 32 Eastern North Carolina municipalities are willing to try what amounts to a Hail Mary pass to reduce them. |
2011-04 |
Regional Report Triad April 2011Factory-outlet stores are a tradition in Steve Tanger’s family.
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2011-04 |
Regional Report Triangle April 2011When accused of a crime you didn’t do, why is being suspended from a prestigious university worth more in damages than rotting in prison?
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2011-04 |
Regional Report Western April 2011When federal regulators closed Bank of Asheville in January and brokered its sale to Troy-based First Bancorp, 18 months had passed since North Carolina’s last bank failure. |
2011-04 |
