Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s focuses on the latest abuse of the Federal Trade Commission’s power. As soldiers are taught to seize the high ground, so antitrust prosecutors…
With OKC being Oklahoma City while TUL is Tulsa. Per the Charlotte Observer, flights start on July 2 and are twice-daily on large regional jets (have a first class section).…
As a condition of approving the US Airways/American Airlines merger, the US Department of Justice required that the airlines divest themselves of 44 sets of takeoff and landing slots at…
Well enough for US Airways to extend the season for this summer-seasonal Charlotte – Dublin service. Instead of ending on September 9, service will now go until October 5th. Service…
Amidst all the redundancy and inevitability of a merger under the MSD in the good-faith water negotiations, something new was finally said. Bill Russell, who serves on the MSD board…
Here’s more on the apparently imminent merger of the Metropolitan Sewerage System with waterworks in Asheville and Henderson County.
Friday is the big day the Metropolitan Sewerage District was going to reveal to the public the findings of the consulting firm it hired to study a merger with the…
Ticks. Many different types of ticks. As in the Gulf Coast tick, the Lone Star tick, and the Ixodes Affinis tick, all three of which are now showing up in…
In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin writes about the troubles facing Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College. Both are struggling. Shaw would probably have already folded but for a…
A couple of weeks ago I teased you with the possibility with the possibility that the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments might go poof. Not quite true —- local governments…
Now faces Ticketbastard…er, Ticketmaster in the semi-finals! The folks over at The Consumerist — the net front-end owned by Consumer Reports — have been pitting companies against each other in…
The state has maxed out its credit lines. On the General Fund, they’re stuck at least FY2012, not counting the $1.7 billion (and growing) borrowed from the federal government to…