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All She Wants to Do Is Dance, Dance
Recently, I cheered the Town of Franklin for putting its Main Street Program to bed for nappy-bye. Now, we see that the Town of Franklin has promised to assume responsibility…
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So Unbelieving and Not Interested
Western Carolina University will have a second annual conference: to attract elected and appointed government officials, representatives of tourism and economic development organizations and chambers of commerce, and owners and…
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What it takes to host the Super Bowl
These days, it involves a lot more than having a big stadium. From the (Minnesota) Star Tribune: The National Football League had a long and expensive list of confidential requests…
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Don’t Do the Math
Nikki Pons of SMCFTPA said TDA funding to promote the Charlie Daniels and Kellie Pickler shows, which ran the weekend of the Rumble, had a major impact. Pons said 82…
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Moving Obama’s speech
The UPoR’s Taylor Batten says that the DNC Committee blew it by moving President Obama’s acceptance speech to Time Warner Cable Arena from Bank of America Stadium: What did organizers…
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DNC vendor opportunities?
The Charlotte Observer reports that so far potential vendors haven’t gotten much information about selling their wares during the DNC proper. Should this come as a surprise? No. As we’ve…
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Meanwhile in Chicago
A lot of empty stores and restaurants near the site of the NATO summit while protestors in the streets chant “Bombs are dropping. No more shopping.” Most employers in the…
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Maggie Valley grapples with best way to recruit new festivals
Shouldn’t this role be left to the private market? From the SMN: The town of Maggie Valley fired its part-time festival director after he failed to produce results a few…
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Different egg drop, same chaos
Speaking of crowds, here’s yet another N&R letter to the editor on the chaotic Easter egg drop at New Bridge Bank Park: This was the worst event I have attended…
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Nuther Uptown Arena Gaffe
Tonite’s Gaither Homecoming has been put off until December 8th “due to an unforeseen maintenance issue with the building’s rigging system.” Really. This means the building will go unused until…
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Fall Tours Skipping Uptown?
As summer winds down concerts start to move back indoors. What does Charlotte have to look forward to? New Kids on the Block and nine days of Disney on Ice.…