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Brittany Brady is president of Henderson County Economic Development Partnership. Under Brady's leadership, the partnership has shifted it workforce mindset from academics to career and technical education. Currently the county has 8,000 technical and manufacturing jobs with average wages of $66,000, as opposed to its $3 billion tourism industry with average salaries at $30,000.
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"Rural superintendents say a growing voucher program puts public schools at risk. Lawmaker disagree." Don Phipps, superintendent of schools in Caldwell County notes he isn't opposed to school choice but rather that any school receiving public funds, regardless of it being church, private or charter, should have to play by the same set of rules.
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"A rural southeast N.C. county, praised for its job recruiting efforts, is fractured by disagreements." On March 28, 2025, Bladen's Bloomin' Agri-Industrial Inc., a nonprofit real estate developer filed a civil suit against the town of Elizabethtown for failing to reply to a public records request. On the same day, the town issued a press release blaming the nonprofit with misinformation.