Elections Bond pass everywhere else As mentioned, the Cary vote broke with the pattern elsewhere. Just in the Triangle, Chapel Hill voters backed a quintet...
Elections Cary defies prevailing bond-issue trend On a night when most cities and counties that put a bond referendum on the ballot saw it pass, Cary’s...
Local Hybrid and BEV market thrives Given its importance to North Carolina chipmakers like Wolfspeed, it’s worth checking in on how well the EV market is...
Local Wolfspeed announces job cuts as red ink continues Durham-based chipmaker Wolfspeed announced that it’s cutting staff in the face of “current market conditions” and the impending closure of...
Elections Stein transition Gov.-elect Josh Stein’s transition team will include at least one Republican, former Wake County state Sen. Richard Stevens. He joins...
Local DOT timetable on Helene damage While the N.C. Department of Transportation is going to move heaven and literal earth to get Western North Carolina’s road...
Elections Some observations about the election Some observations about the election: First, among North Carolina pollsters, the outcome in broad outline was about what they expected....
Local S&P offers a forecast for the car industry Chipmakers like IQE and Wolfspeed that are hoping to make money supplying the EV industry — and the car industry...
Local Chips and incentives We’ve been keeping a close eye on the Greensboro semiconductor business lately, partly because of the wait for something called...
Local More Nukes for NC? In its approval of Duke Energy’s new Carolinas Resource Plan, the N.C. Utilities Commission tossed an unexpected lifeline to the...
Elections More money in Council of State races Continuing our round-up of the latest campaign-finance reports for Council of State candidates, we see that Democratic nominee Natasha Marcus...
Local Volkswagens by any other name North Carolina auto dealers, through their trade group, are eyeing Volkswagen’s plan to launch a new line of EVs and...
Education NCInnovation adds to campus hub network NCInnovation and the UNC System have nearly doubled the number of system universities that are functioning as hubs for the...
Local Buncombe lowers lodging-tax revenue forecast Buncombe County expects lodging tax revenue of $24.2 million for fiscal 2025, $10.1 million lower than previously forecast, according to...
Education Woodson touts NC State’s economic contributions NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson’s final fall address to the campus community on Wednesday was a victory lap for a...
