Unemployment is now 10.5% in North Carolina and Durham, Orange and Buncombe Counties are proposing raising taxes. Is anything happening to get the economy back on track?

North Carolina’s anti-union stance has been key in recruiting and keeping businesses, the real key to economic recovery.  In addition, economic performance and personal income growth is greater in right to work states.  Today workers at two RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company voted 686 to 556 against unionizing.  Maybe there is some hope for economic recovery after all.