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Some things last, and some things don’t. Beyonce’s 2008 single “Single Ladies” is an enduring song. “Shut Up and Let Me Go” by The Ting Tings is not. Raleigh continues…
The Charlotte City Council will meet at 2pm today to debate and vote on whether or not to host the 2020 Republican National Convention: Under a contract between the RNC,…
On Tuesday, Raleigh announced that they would be increasing pay for some city workers. This was unusual in a couple of respects. First, it’s mid-year. That rarely happens. Usually, the…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina’s new chief deputy attorney general once wrote an opinion defending legislative slush funds. Julie Tisdale’s Daily Journal explains that Raleigh’s…
Seems that Charlotte isn’t the only city with a minor-league soccer team owner with major league ambitions. Per the Raleigh News & Observer: The Carolina Hurricanes aren’t moving to downtown…
As the Charlotte Observer reports: Mecklenburg County’s average daily hotel rate this year is expected to be $104 – the first time it has crossed $100 a night. It was…
Ely Portillo of the UPoR writes: Charlotte’s uptown apartment market is booming, and office towers are springing up. But it’s another sector – hotels – that’s quietly laying the groundwork…
JLF friend Bob Smith writes here about an amazing proposal for a Humanities and Fine Arts Center in Wilmington for Cape Fear Community College. Bob asks the right questions: why…
Government-owned convention centers tend to lose money, and they fall far short of meeting projected growth in nearby hotel business. The answer from convention center backers always involves spending more…
And here’s another fascinating UPoR piece on the continuing efforts by Big Art in Charlotte to piece together a coherent funding model via its recently established “Charlotte Cultural Life Task…
On Monday, Jon Sanders gave an enlightening talk about the folly of “the multiplier” — the notion that when government “injects” money into the economy through spending on projects such…
It’s not as funny as “The Daily Show” segment on the party of tolerance, but the latest installment of Joel Stein‘s “Awesome Column” in TIME offers a humorous take on…