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Terry Rolan has served Durham for thirty years, first as a sanitary engineer and now as director of water management. He was recently chosen president-elect of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is the first North Carolinian to serve in that capacity since the organization was founded in 1921.
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The Civil War ended in North Carolina 140 years ago. A number of historical sites mark critical events of the war that occurred in the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont. Beginning in January 2005, a number of commemorative events were held at sites including Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson, Bentonville, and Bennett Place.\r\n\r\n
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The North Carolina Association of Educators recognized the efforts of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office and North Carolina's Rosenwald Schools Community Project to preserve the heritage of the schools. These schools for African American children were funded by matching grants provided by Chicago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to African American communities that raised a certain amount of money. Between the late 1910s and 1932, there were 813 of the Rosenwald schools built in North Carolina, more than in any other state. Over 120 of the schools are still standing today.
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The e-NC Authority succeeds the Rural Internet Access Authority, which was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2000 and builds on its work to connect people to the Internet and a better future. The Authority works with all one hundred of the state's counties with a focus on rural and distressed urban areas. High-speed Internet access is available to 82 percent of the state's households and is available to more than 50 percent of local citizens in ninety-one out of North Carolina's one hundred counties.
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Best Doctors, Inc., is a Boston-based company that rates physicians. Its approach is unique. The company asks practicing physicians what specialists they would go to if they needed to see a doctor. Best Doctors then verifies these recommended doctors' licenses and board certifications and checks for any disciplinary actions against them. The company then asks the doctors a series of questions about their experience, practice, and research. Business North Carolina lists doctors in the state who made the list in twenty-one specialties, including cardiovascular, infectious disease, nephrology, and ophthalmology.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 7, July 2004,
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Steve Troxler was elected North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture in November 2004. A broken voting machine which failed to record 4,400 votes delayed his actual certification as commissioner until February 2005. Troxler discusses his plans for the agribusiness in North Carolina.
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The boating industry employs over 20,000 persons in North Carolina. Boats and boating products accounted for $446.8 million in sales for 2003. In-state boating companies are growing, and the state is attractive for out-of-state boating companies planning to relocate. In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, Mike Bradley, director of Marine Trade Services for the Small Business and Technology Development Center of the University of North Carolina system, discusses the industry's growth; types of boats built in the state; locations of builders; hurdles faced by the industry; and the future of the industry.
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Best Doctors, Inc., is a Boston-based company that rates physicians. Its approach is unique. The company asks practicing physicians what specialists they would go to if they needed to see a doctor. Best Doctors then verifies these recommended doctors' licenses and board certifications and checks for any disciplinary actions against them. The company then asks the doctors a series of questions about their experience, practice, and research. BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA lists doctors in the state who made the list in twenty-one specialties, including cardiovascular, infectious disease, nephrology, and ophthalmology.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 7, July 2005,
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Reynolda House, built between 1906 and 1917 in Winston-Salem, was the home of tobacco baron Richard Reynolds and his wife Katherine. It opened to the public in 1967 as a museum, one of the first in the country to specialize in American art. On April 1, 2005, the museum will open a $12 million, three-story addition, the Mary and Charles Babcock Wing, named for the daughter and son-in-law of the Reynolds's. The 30,000-square-foot addition includes a new visitor center, orientation gallery, video, acoustic guides, oral history stations, museum store, two-level auditorium, art library, a changing exhibition gallery, and education studios.
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In 1905, Henry B. and Sadie C. Fowler of Charlotte received a franchise from Caleb Bradham of New Bern to bottle Pepsi Cola. Bradham, a New Bern pharmacist, created the soft drink in 1896 and named it Pepsi Cola in 1898. The Fowler's franchise struggled through the Great Depression and two world wars. When the Fowler's granddaughter Dale Halton became company president in 1981, the company was teetering on bankruptcy. Halton brought the company back and now heads Charlotte's largest woman-owned business. In 2005, the company that produces more than nine million cases and fountain gallons per year marked its hundredth anniversary.
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A survey conducted by the Washington, D.C. based National Federation of Independent Business reveals that small business owners in North Carolina are less satisfied with local business conditions than small business owners in neighboring states. State small business owners feel they deal with more environmental, tax, and safety regulations and a higher cost for employees' health insurance than do their neighboring peers.
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David H. Moreau, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has once again been named director of the Water Resources Research Institute of UNC effective July 1, 2005. Moreau, who was WRRI director from 1983 to 1995, has been a UNC faculty member since 1968.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 352, May/June 2005,
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What is close to home, offers free parking, requires walking only one hundred feet to reach the airport terminal, and has four flights a day to and from Atlanta? It's the new Delta Airline-owned service Atlanta Southeast Airlines (ASA) that began April 1, 2005, at Kinston Regional Jetport. ASA is a big regional carrier that employs over 6,000 and has a fleet of 146 aircraft. Previously residents in the east had to drive to Raleigh for many airline flights. The convenience of Kinston is drawing passengers in droves with passenger loads exceeding 80 percent.
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Jannette Fishell is professor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University. She was also instrumental in obtaining the Perkins and Wells Memorial Organ for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville. Built by Fisk, the organ, with 3,000 pipes, is one of the largest instruments of its kind on the East Coast.
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Eastern North Carolina is an area of contrasts. The coastline draws tourists' dollars and million-dollar homes dot the beaches, while large sections of the interior are mired in poverty. Twelve of the region's forty-one counties lost population between 2000 and 2004. Charles Broadwell, publisher of the FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER; Jim Chestnutt, CEO of Washington-based National Spinning Co.; Tom Eagar, Wilmington-based CEO of the N.C. Ports Authority; Phillip Horne, president of Greenville-based Foundation of Renewal for Eastern North Carolina; and Darlene Waddell, executive director of the N.C. Global TransPark Authority in Kinston discuss with BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA senior editor Edward Martin the region's strengths and weaknesses and how to orient the region's assets to promote growth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 10, Oct 2005,
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