Budget, Taxation & Economy
Now 78 percent of NC’s known COVID cases are recoveries
In two weeks, which is when recoveries should also surpass 100,000, will our media showcase that fact?
Piedmont Triad
region centered on three cities in North Carolina, United States
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Cornelius’ uphill battle to break away from CMS
Earlier this year education news here in the Triad was High Point Mayor Jay Wagner’s suggestion that HP break away from Guilford County Schools and form its own municipal school…
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NYT profiles Winston-Salem
Under the headline: Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities ..the New York Times parachutes into Winston-Salem to ponder that question: Winston-Salem has been overshadowed within North…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Claim That Medicaid Expansion Creates 40,000 Jobs is Advocacy, Not Economic Science
In December 2018, I wrote the following: “As a general rule, the public and politicians should never view economic impact studies as anything more than an attempt by special interests…
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Teachers strong-arm Triad school boards
The boards of both Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and Guilford County Schools voted to close school on May 1 so teachers can attend the education rally in Raleigh. The GCS board…
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$30 million downtown Greensboro parking deck back on the table?
News & Record reports downtown developer Roy Carroll and the City of Greensboro “are back on speaking terms” regarding the proposed $30 million parking deck. Remember back in April Carroll…
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New Greensboro airport name ‘is a joke’
You may or may not have heard that come Jan. 1 Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport will become Central North Carolina International Airport: “Changing the name of the airport is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Triad at Full Employment? Mitch Kokai Weighs In On Drop in Unemployment Rate.
Richard Craver of the Winston-Salem Journal reports on the drop of the unemployment rate in the Triad to an 11 1/2-year low of 4% in September. Most economists agree that…
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Triad’s Amazon HQ2 pitch
#TriadisPrime—“perhaps the largest collaborative recruitment effort by the Triad’s four economic-development groups: Piedmont Triad Partnership, Winston-Salem Business Inc., High Point Economic Development Corp. and Greensboro Chamber of Commerce”—as the Winston-Salem…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Amazon: Great Deals on Toasters, Bad Deals for States and Localities
This week, the bids were all finally submitted for Amazon’s new HQ2. Raleigh shipped a 32-pound box (!) containing its proposal. Charlotte set up a website. Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High…
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Triad’s Amazon ‘HQ2’ pitch
N&R’s Richard Barron reports on the Triad area’s proposed bid to attract Amazon’s second headquarters, dubbed “HQ2”: The company floated its plan earlier this week: a second headquarters operation that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What’s the Recipe For a Thriving North Carolina?
Mitch Kokai suggests the path forward to continue a thriving North Carolina in this Winston-Salem Journal story about the Triad’s unemployment rate and the North Carolina economy. Mitch Kokai, policy…