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In mid-February, the Charlotte Observer ran a long piece about “The little-known trend that’s hurting housing affordability in Charlotte.” And while it’s interesting, there’s nothing about the piece that’s actually…
Stanley Bing of Fortune magazine explains in the latest issue why he has no interest in being part of “the conversation.” How many times has this happened to you? You’re…
Now that the elections are — mostly — over for another two-year cycle, it might be a good time to discuss the amount of money spent on electoral campaigns. The…
Taco Bell wants in on the lucrative breakfast food market, and based on their new ad campaign — which features guys named Ronald McDonald — they see McDonald’s as their…
There apparently will be a huge national protest in favor of more automated cashiers in fast-food restaurants. A hundred cities, including Raleigh and Durham, will feature in this coordinated campaign.…
You’ll search in vain for the word “entrepreneur” in Geoff Colvin‘s latest Fortune magazine column, but this reader gets the sense that Colvin is describing a lamentable decline in the…
View in your browser. Under an executive model based on community organizing, the process for achieving political goals involves astroturfed spectacles set up for overhype by willing media, to heighten…
WRAL misses the elephant in the room in dutifully playing its part in the messaging for a minimum-wage hike via covering fast-food workers’ self-defeating strike: “When I saw the strikes…
It looks like food trucks – once the outlaws of the food industry, as we’ve seen here in North Carolina — are going mainstream. National food chains — and others…
What’s slimy, pink, and reportedly in 70 percent of the ground beef found in grocery stores? The “pink slime” is made by gathering waste trimmings, simmering them at low heat so the…
Over in our sister blog Squall Lines, which covers coastal Carolina, John Hood blogs about a ridiculous plan to use public money to subsidize a Taco Bell.
I didn’t think meat could get more questionable than the kind used by Taco Bell. Well, it can — in public school lunches. A report in USA Today found that…