By Jon Guze Raleigh, NC – Rep. Dennis Riddell (R-Alamance) recently filed an eminent-domain reform bill in the N.C. House of Representatives. This is a welcome development in many ways, and we should all be grateful to Rep. Riddell for…
By Brooke Medina Raleigh, NC – Last week, President Biden chose to kick off his Invest in America tour in Durham, North Carolina, stopping at Wolfspeed, a semiconductor facility that will focus on the electric vehicle market. Wolfspeed will receive…
Pittsboro, NC – Join 4,852 others and follow our affiliate Chatham County News Tweets here. Below is a collection of #ChathamNC tweets from last week:
By Theresa Opeka Raleigh, NC – A Vietnamese electric vehicle maker with plans to build a production plant in Chatham County may be in trouble after announcing it is cutting 80 jobs in the U.S., including its chief financial officer,…
By Lisa Sorg Moncure, NC – With stands of loblolly pine, rivers, creeks and expanses of farm fields, southeastern Chatham County feels like the country. But this neck of the woods is home to many polluting industries: Arauco, a wood…
Sanford, NC – Foot traffic flowed freely through rows of booths at Manufacturing Day, at least until you approached the end of one path near the back. There, three high school students fitted with virtual reality headsets and handheld devices…
By Brooke Medina Raleigh, NC – Two Chatham County communities will soon be without twenty-seven homes, five businesses, and one church because the state of North Carolina is exercising its eminent domain powers to make way for VinFast, a startup…
Pittsboro, NC – The N.C. Department of Transportation invites citizens to provide public input for a proposed project to make roadway improvements surrounding a planned employment center in southeast Chatham County. The proposed project will improve access from U.S. 1 and…
Vietnamese EV maker VinFast, who will be building a manufacturing facility in Chatham County, sent an e-mail on Sunday to it’s reservation holders saying the company will still make a $7,500 purchase price rebate if the customers see their tax credit…
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…