Last week, JLF’s Becki Gray made her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC with host Jeff Tiberii. Becki joined Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center. This episode…
IMPLAN is at it again. This time, Tom Tveidt, now working for SYNEVA, is using it to justify a performing arts center for Asheville. The idea has been in the…
N&R editorial page editor Allen Johnson asks questions about proposed G’boro downtown performing arts center project manager Ross Harris’ salary, since Community Foundation President Walker Sanders isn’t saying: A couple…
Today the N&R reports the dispute over possibly using hotel taxes to help build a $50 million performing arts center might be a ‘moot point’ because debt on Greensboro Coliseum…
…Dominated the weekend news. Prevailing opinion —-at least as stated in Saturday’s N&R front-pager— appears to be that the proposed performing arts center —funded with a bond on the November…
Adam Carolla, who will appear at The Carolina Theatre on Thursday night, was on The Dennis Miller Show today, and Miller plugged Carolla’s upcoming Durham appearance. Unfortunately, he, like Bill…
Durham is a proudly left-wing town. It’s position on the leftward end of the political spectrum is probably third only to Chapel Hill and Carrboro in our state. Which is…
“Hope,” the Obama musical, opens on Jan. 17 at the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt (actually Hoechst), Germany. This is the same hall where I saw John Mayall and the Blues Breakers…
Google’s zeitgeist 2009 provides information on popular city-specific searches. For Raleigh and Charlotte, public schools were big items. The top ten list for each: Charlotte parent assistant cms charlotte restaurant…
Research Intern Abby Alger takes on the new Durham Performing Arts Center in the Duke Chronicle online here. The Opportunity Cost of DPAC The Dec. 4 editorial, “DPAC excitement and…