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43639
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Former Army Green Beret and Duke University professor, Jim Segrave, plans to take his prive-jet company public this year (2023). Segrave's company, flyExclusive, has high hopes for the future and is "expected to be valued at $600 million and trade on the New York Stock Exchange."
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 1, January 2023,
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43862
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BB&T's merger with SunTrust made it the nation's sixth largest bank in 2019. BB&T originally began in Wilson County in 1872. Currently anchored in Charlotte, the bank has faced challenges since it merger but leaders still feel good about its future strength.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 9, September 2023,
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43888
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"Charges of antitrust violations sets up a courtroom battle between major protein producers and retailers." North Carolina is one of the largest meat producers in the United States. Mount Olive has its Butterball plant with more than 3,000 workers and Smithfield foods in Bladen County hosts a workforce of 4,500. Tourists note Rose Hill-based House of Raeford as the world's largest skillet, capable of handling 360 fryers at one time. By year's end the industry will be locked into a major courtroom battle in Chicago regarding manipulation of prices in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 6, June 2023,
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"Too few full-time nurses are causing severe service and financial problems at North Carolina's hospitals. In north Carolina, registered nurses earn on average $71,000. Reliance on travel nurses has become unsustainably expensive, forcing hospital systems like ECU Health to chut down a number of it clinics in rural areas.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 3, March 2023,
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"Video -- and other media -- couldn't kill radio star don Curtis' dream for building a statewide chain." Raleigh based Curtis Media Group is the nation's largest radio network owned by a single shareholder. Son of a Bessemer City pharmacist, Don Curtis is currently 86 years old. His family foundation is one of the largest donors at UNC Chapel Hill. He was the first president of the N.C Cable Television Association.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 8, August 2023,
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43977
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"canton looks for a new role after the shuttering of its landmark." When Pactiv Evergreen paper mill closed in May, about 1,050 jobs with yearly salaries ranging above $80,000.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 43 Issue 10, October 2023,
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43195
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"Changing the State's quirky liquor system churns debate, but lucrative transfers to government coffers repel calls for reform." Current criticism is focussed on the North Carolina ABC Commission's contract with a private Missouri company which operates the state-owned central warehouse in Raleigh.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 42 Issue 1, January 2022,
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43307
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"Hardship is no stranger to Rocky Mount as it responds to the devastating QVC fire." Located 8 miles from downtown Rocky Mount, the facilty wa built for about $80 million in 1999.
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"N.C. A&T State University is poised to become a top-level research university under Harold Martin Sr., who became chancellor at the greensboro campus in 2006." Currently, the university enrolls more thatn 13,300 students. It is on the verge of being classified as a Research One Doctoral University
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Earlier this year, Rebecca Williams with grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council and N.C. arts Council, completed her documentary film on the story of Beacon Manufacturing in Swannanoa. The facility, built in 1936, was destroyed by fire in 2003. She is hoping it will air on public television and in museums and schools in the coming months. Beacon was once the nation's largest blanket mill. Williams film is entitled "Blanket Town".
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Farming throughout North Carolina has revisited a more traditional method of cultivating livestock. Local farms like Hickory Nut Gap and Bradley's Farm House Beef strive to give consumers a 100% grass-fed pasture-to-plate experience.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 42 Issue 8, August 2022,
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"Officially opened in July 2021, Catawba Two Kings Casino has slated $273 million for a two-story permanent casino, 29-floor hotel, restaurants and other trimmings. Last winter, it doubled the playing floor to about 30,000 square feet. In September, it added sportsbook betting with 30 kiosks. . . Under North Carolina’s agreement that permitted the Cherokee casinos in 1994, the state’s Indian Gaming Revenue Fund gets 6% of live table revenue from blackjack and other games. That share will rise to 8% in 2032. "
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 42 Issue 11, November 2022,
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This article illustrates how some doctors working for major medical facilities have switched over to primary care to better assist their patients. The article also mentions how the Affordable Care Act had negative as well as positive effects on the medical system and how doctors work with or around these effects today.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 42 Issue 12, December 2022,
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"The State mulls an opioid settlement that may recoup nearly $50 million a year." More than 70 of the state's 100 counties along with eight cities are parties to the agreement.
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"Developing a thriving N.C. cannabis industry follows a crooked path." Up until it was outlawed in 1940, North Carolina produced enough hemp to export small amounts. In 2017, the state's Industrial Hemp Pilot Program brought back production. Policing continues to be a major issue.. For now, recreational marijuana remain illegal.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 41 Issue 8, August 2021,
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