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  • Artsplosure tops downtown Raleigh bucket list

    Raleigh, N.C. - The social media gurus behind downtown Raleigh's "Live, Work, Play" have partnered with Offline Media to come up with a summer contest designed to draw visitors to the capital city and to push residents to try new activities within city limits.The Downtown Raleigh Bucket List features 16 suggested experiences, starting with this weekend's Artsplosure, to cross ...

  • Wake child care trainer takes action after babys day care death

    Fort Bragg, N.C. - As a Wake County child care trainer, Krista Barbour's job is to teach day care providers how to keep infants safe. When she heard the story about a 4-month-old boy who suffocated at a Fort Bragg day care, she decided to take action.Santino "Sonny" Degenhard suffocated during tummy time at Pope Child Development Center on March 9, 2012, while a child care worker ...

  • New law lays out ground rules for wind power

    The bill lays out a process for applicants to notify neighbors, local governments and military installations of their plans. It formally delegates approval power to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. "This is a great law because it shows that we are serious about our responsibility for balancing our environmental and economic interests, including North Carolina's ...

  • N.C. adds 500 construction jobs

    North Carolina added 500 construction jobs between March and April, one hopeful sign of a turnaround in the works. But taking a longer frame of reference, the key sector still has a way to go before the promise of any recovery is actually realized. As of the close of April, total statewide construction was 169,900, down 4,000, or 2.3 percent, from the same month in 2012, according to ...

  • Some health experts are skeptical of Medicaid plan

    As North Carolina's Medicaid officials tour the state for input about reform, they're likely to get some skepticism. Many doctors, health care experts, and ordinary citizens have questioned the wisdom of inviting private companies from outside the state to manage the program, and instead called on state leaders to expand on the model currently implemented by Community Care of North ...


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Movie Review

Unfaithful

Following the immense difficulties of getting his last film, the beautifully provocative and unfairly maligned adaptation of Lolita (1997), distributed, it has been five years since Adrian Lyne directed a film. Perhaps it is because the commercial failure of Lolita shook his confidence, but with Unfaithful, Lyne has returned to his favorite subject, that which has provided hi ... ...

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  • Beware N.C. lottery scammers running loose

    The North Carolina Education Lottery alerted players Friday about a scam targeting recent lottery winners. Some recent lottery winners reported being contacted by callers who said they were from the N.C. Education Lottery. The callers told players they had won additional prizes, later asking players to buy prepaid debit cards and provide the numbers to them before obtaining these prizes. $5.7 ...

  • CEOs’ most ridiculous boardroom gesture

    We humans are creatures of habit to one extent or another. So I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that more and more CEOs have picked up a certain hand gesture in the last few years and are using it when they speak in public. They're clearly doing it in the same automatic way that most of us use body language. Still, it's utterly baffling because it hardly ever has anything to do ...

  • Developer N.C. doesn’t need solar ‘mega-projects’

    Joel Olsen sees big things ahead for the N.C. solar industry, but that doesn't necessarily mean big mega-projects are in the state's future. And that will be good for the state's solar market, he says. North Carolina is much more likely to be a center for distributed generation solar projects -- utility scale solar farms of 20 megawatts or less. A number of 100-plus megawatt ...

  • Four Oaks returns to profitability in Q1

    Johnston County-based Four Oaks Fincorp (OTC: FOFN) posted a first quarter 2013 profit of $77,000, its first positive net income figure since June of 2012. The bank remains well-capitalized under regulatory standards, as it continues to move problem assets, many of them real estate-related, off its balance sheet, according to ...

  • Take a peek around Syngenta’s $70M greenhouse

    Coyote figurines were placed around the facility to scare off geese - a strange tactic that seems to be working. Execs told me they would be gone by Friday's governor ...

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