Raleigh, NC – Sheryl Sandberg, the outgoing chief operating officer of Facebook’s parent organization Meta Platforms, recently came to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina as part of an effort to shore up support for a satellite office to…
By Jon Sanders Raleigh, NC – There are two reasons a corporation would take government incentives to move into North Carolina: because it can because the move can’t happen without the incentives Neither of those reasons is sufficient to justify…
By Donna King Raleigh, NC – The $846 million subsidy deal that North Carolina struck with Apple just topped the “year’s worst” list of a nonpartisan economic think tank. The Center for Economic Accountability selected the 39-year agreement to put…
By Donna King Raleigh, NC – This week Apple Inc. announced North Carolina will be the new home to a billion-dollar campus working in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. The move will create 3,000 jobs that pay an…
Raleigh, NC – Despite dire predictions, one year after HB2 passed, the sky has not fallen and North Carolina remains a regional and national powerhouse. With a projected half-billion surplus and record-setting hotel occupancy and tourism, Governor Cooper and Democratic…
By Billie Hinton Pittsboro, NC – We too have CenturyLink for our internet. For a number of years we used Blast and loved them but at some point our signal got weak and we/they couldn’t figure out a location to…