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Your N&R column roundup…..
More than a few interesting columns in the N&R past couple of days. For starters, we have Leonard Pitts —always a good way to start the week (thank you, N&R)…
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town in York County, South Carolina, United States of America
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Charlotte Area Sees Mortgage Jobs Cut
View in your browser. The city of Charlotte is the second largest financial center in America in terms of assets following New York City, and with that comes many mortgage…
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Mortgage lay-offs in Charlotte
The city of Charlotte is the second largest financial center in assets following New York City, and with that comes many mortgage brokers. During the last year, banks have laid-off…
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Re: Domtar?
To be clear then, our genius leaders in the General Assembly are throwing North Carolina taxpayer dollars at a French Canadian paper company with an HQ in Fort Mill. I…
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Smokey Bissell is Not a Capitalist
Such a very, very telling few lines from one of our local uber developers, Smokey Bissell. As captured by Kerry Hall Singe: Speaking before a group of roughly 100 real…
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Local Officials, Pining for the Fjords
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Chair Jennifer Roberts recently struck a distressingly mendacious chord by attempting to explain the county’s fiscal troubles with reference to Mecklenburg’s growth in the past decade. Roberts…
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Private financing in place for W-S stadium
We somehow knew the complex private financing deal to help pay for Winston-Salem’s taxpayer-funded downtown baseball stadium would meet the city’s deadline, didn’t we? Construction crews say they need 160-180…
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The future for Winston-Salem’s downtown stadium?
I couldn’t help but think about what the future might hold for Winston-Salem’s downtown stadium deal as I read this Uptown paper of record article on the uncertainty surrounding the…
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Zombie Baseball Uptown
I think we’ve declared Uptown baseball dead and buried before, only to see crawl back from the brink more often than Rasputin. As a result, excuse me if I refrain…
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Mystery Museum Owners in South Charlotte?
Here is just a weird story. This is the headline in today’s Uptown paper of record “With no buyers, preschoolers’ museum closes.” Then Michelle Crouch goes on to report: “We…
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Tara Gets Her Gun On
Tara Servatius pens a must read column this week that starts off thusly: I’d just started the gas pump when a beat-up old car that had just passed the station…
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No Subsidy for Great Wolf
Hey, local taxpayers are already on the hook for a $38 million log flume ride, let’s not add a $100 million indoor water park to their backs. A Wisconsin’s company’s…