Google may invest $600 million to expand its Caldwell County data center and add as many as 30 jobs after local officials agreed to an incentives deal this week. My boss Dave Mildenberg reports that Google’s proposed expansion is on about 60 acres adjacent to its Lenoir campus, which opened in 2007 with a reported […]
For the western North Carolina business community, probably the most important element of the bill is a $50 million allocation for “small business recovery bridge loans.” That money will go through the N.C. Department of Commerce and the Golden LEAF Foundation, and facilitate loans of up to $100,000. These would have interest rates capped at […]
Legislators on Thursday added another $604.2 million in disaster aid money to the state’s response to Hurricane Helene, to go with the $273 million they allotted to the cause earlier this month. The new package cleared the Senate on a 46-0 vote and the House on a 108-0 vote. At least on the Senate side, […]
John Boyle/The Asheville Watchdog The floodwaters rose so fast at Thanh Bui’s house the morning of Sept. 27, she had to swim to safety. Bui, 55, and her 30-year-old son, Quintin Ho, had been up much of the night, monitoring the howling winds and rainfall of Tropical Storm Helene. Ho periodically checked the yard of […]
Gareth McGrath/USA Today Network Pender County has passed a resolution asking for a moratorium on new shellfish farms in its coastal waters. Onslow County has approved a similar request. Both counties say it’s unfair that shellfish farms can be established in their waters, but not in neighboring counties like New Hanover and Brunswick. Can oysters […]
Vicki Hyatt/The (Waynewsville) Mountaineer A lawsuit over the stalled sale of the Canton paper mill following the flood has not deterred the prospective buyer, Eric Spirtas, who claims the delay was due in part to Pactiv Evergreen’s refusal to provide proof of insurance. “If they had insurance policies, you would think they would be waving […]
Rusty Jacobs/WUNC Radio Litigation and elections in North Carolina go hand in hand. And in the days and weeks after this election, it seems very possible that trend will continue — even, potentially, with the fate of the race for U.S. president at stake. Court battles over redistricting in North Carolina dominated the political landscape […]
Grace Vitaglione/NC Health News Carol Moore has always had “a heart for seniors.” When she was a teenager, she took care of her grandmother. Then she looked after her mother in law who had rheumatoid arthritis. Now a senior herself at 73, she said her peers are often “overlooked.” Moore has lived in Harnett County […]
Steve Harrison/WFAE Radio Republican state House member Tricia Cotham is running a misleading TV commercial criticizing her Democratic opponent Nicole Sidman over her views about a homeless encampment that grew near uptown Charlotte during the coronavirus pandemic. The commercial misrepresents Sidman’s actual statement on the camp. And in a further twist, Sidman’s actual views closely […]
Peter Castagno/Port City Daily Though a development moratorium has been floated in recent months by both a county leader and resident input, Monday night it failed to move forward. Chair Randy Thompson raised a motion Monday’s Brunswick County commissioner meeting for staff to prepare information for an imminent 120-day development moratorium due to issues including […]
Ahmed Jallow/NC Newsline Last week, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced that his office was filing a lawsuit against Club Exploria, LLC, for allegedly spamming more than one million residents with unlawful robocalls attempting to sell timeshares and vacation rentals. Speaking at the press conference last Friday, Stein alleged that Club Exploria violated North […]
Aisha N. Frazier/WCHL Chapelboro Trevohn Robinson is frustrated by the constant rising cost of rent in Chapel Hill. Robinson, who has lived in his apartment for less than three years, said his rent has increased with each lease renewal. “It’s an issue. My rent just goes up and up,” Robinson said. “And it’s not like […]
DJ Simmons/WFDD Radio The Greensboro City Council on Tuesday approved a cap and cover option for Bingham Park, foregoing a full remediation of the area due to available funding. The park was opened in the 1970s atop an unregulated landfill, and was a key part of several neighborhoods in east Greensboro. It’s received increased attention […]
A multi-billion dollar anti-trust lawsuit involving Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is in the process of being settled. The deal will require the country’s 33 Blues, and the nationwide Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, to pay $2.8 billion into an escrow account for eventual distribution to the lawsuit’s plaintiffs. How much of […]
Gov. Roy Cooper and his aides believe western North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Helene will ultimately consume about $53.6 billion from governmental and private sources. Of that, about $41.1 billion is the direct cost of the damage and another $7.6 billion is the prospective indirect cost of mitigating its follow-on effects on affected communities, such […]
