This week, Carolina Journal’s Julie Havlak reported on an effort by lawmakers to save struggling hospitals in North Carolina. According to Havlak: Senate Bill 681 passed the House, 81-31, Wednesday, Aug.…
Given its considerable financial problems over the years, the words “smart money” and “civil rights museum” don’t normally belong in the same sentence. Ok that said–Greensboro’s International Civil Rights Center…
N&R reports the Greensboro City Council decided to move forward with the last installment of its loan to the International Civil Rights Museum. That decision was taken without a formal…
Winston-Salem City Council member Dan Besse said he “was troubled by the appearance that the council was expected to ‘rubber-stamp'” a $350,000 forgivable loan for a 30-unit apartment complex to…
That is if you call no signed contract for the first installment of the $1.5m forgivable loan a snafu: When the city wrote the International Civil Rights Center and Museum…
Owners of local TV station Black Network Television are threatening to sue the City of Greensboro after the City Council walked back a $300k loan to produce the Watcha Cookin?’…
Greensboro City Manager Denise Turner Roth has deemed International Civil Rights Museum audits “acceptable,” clearing the way for the museum to start taking on a $1.5 million loan the City…
VistaNet, a wireless internet provider, requested a $1 million loan from the taxpayers of Jackson County. That is more than the balance in the county’s revolving loan fund. Remember, the…
I have been a critic of the insanity taking of hold of Greensboro City Council meetings in recent weeks, but in the interest of fairness I will gladly report a…
BB&T turned down an application made by the Town of Franklin for a loan. The town wanted to finance a new ABC store and repay the loan with revenues from…
The City of High Point’s $9.7 million small business loan pool has suffered from “lack of serious interest.” City leaders are now searching for way to make the loan pool…
While the private sector can’t seem to get its construction act together, Haywood County shall enter into a $5,398,000 construction contract to convert a former Wal-Mart into a health and…