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Tunku Varadarajan gathers important insights about higher education’s current state from a Harvard expert. If you want the long view of what’s gone wrong with American higher education, you could…
That 7 percent threshold was hugely important for such an arbitrary cutoff. It was problematic for cideries for two reasons. One, cideries cannot perfectly control carbonation or alcohol content, but…
Might does not make right; money does. When I was wee, I was taught this country was supposed to protect citizens from such things. Today, the papers are flooded with…
From the Charlotte Observer, with the emphasis being on nanobreweries vs. somewhat larger producers, with a nanobrewery being defined as a brewery that produces three barrels of beer (a barrel…
Frankly, I’m surprised I haven’t seen this proposed in North Carolina. Seems just like the sort of taxpayers’-money-wasting scheme that so many of North Carolina’s politicians love, and with the…
Alcohol sales are booming in Jackson County. Year over year sales have increased almost $1 million, or nearly a third. Why? Oh, there are probably many reasons, but I suppose…
Siath the Watauga Democrat: Video game consoles — including Xbox One, Nintendo Wii and Playstation 4 — are now available for check out and play at Appalachian State’s Belk Library.…
View in your browser. 1. NC has 8th highest beer tax in the nation The tax foundation has just published a report analyzing the various excise taxes levied on…
The Mountain Xpress has a story about Aaron Williams. He wants to open yet another bar in Asheville, but the shocker is he wants to sell nonlocal brews.
Here is a nice story about the jerk-around developers used to get from city planners and code enforcement. It ends in quite the amazing way with a fast-forward to 2014…
With all the talk about tax reform, many legislators have been comparing North Carolina to neighboring states. One neighbor stands alone in the country when it comes to a certain…
A map published by the Tax Foundation puts North Carolina in the nation’s top 10 in excise taxes assessed to beer. North Carolinians pay 62 cents per gallon of beer,…