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The Marketing of Things for Local Businesses.
Published: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 @ 12:55 pm
By: David Winstead
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People with unattractive faces celebrated this week as locales and businesses across the nation began reinstituting mask mandates.
Published: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 11:59 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Local workforce development boards will use funds to help jobseekers, small businesses
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Governor's Office
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New Treasury guidance on state and local Covid relief spending is a nod to government and a flippant disregard of taxpayers and small businesses.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the spread of police cowardice is insuring that rioting events, beginning as peaceful protests, prove to be fertile soil for lawless looting and thuggery, Beaufort County's Commissioners voted to aggressively defend local businesses that could become targets of destruction by anarchists.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 3:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Every Small Purchase Makes A Big Difference. Stop by the locally-owned, independent businesses in Uptown Greenville on Saturday, November 27th for the annual “Small Business Saturday” event.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 9:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Local communities, legislators, and businesses are having a hard time understanding why Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget office pulled the plug on $32 million in grants for rural broadband projects that had attracted 70 applicants.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper in a new executive order is encouraging local authorities to pursue criminal and civil penalties against businesses that fail to uphold mask and distancing requirements.
Published: Saturday, November 28th, 2020 @ 5:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Shop ‘Till You Drop in Uptown!
Published: Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 @ 5:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina won’t ease restrictions on its economy and residents before May 22, despite increasing pressure from local businesses and Republican leaders.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 5:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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"A survey by NFIB found 108 million consumers reported shopping or dining at local businesses on Small Business Saturday in 2017. And 90 percent of consumers agreed that Small Business Saturday makes a positive impact on their community."
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2018 @ 12:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. House of Representative on Friday, July 13, voted to close a loophole in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, which requires agencies to curtail the regulatory costs on local governments and businesses
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Greenville's Republican Mayor, P.J. Connelly, has been working nonstop on his economic agenda since being elected in 2017, which is focused on partnering with local businesses to create more jobs and new opportunities
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 10:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory celebrated the contributions of local small businesses by proclaiming Saturday, November 28, 2015, as Small Business Saturday in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Beaufort County Community College and local economic development interests recently announced the launch of an effort to certify the county to those seeking to locate their businesses here or expand an existing business.
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Haywood County would place its local hospitality businesses at a competitive disadvantage with those in surrounding counties, if local and state officials move forward with a proposal to raise the county's occupancy tax rate by 50 percent. That's one key conclusion in a new John Locke Foundation...
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the Mill Pond project was first publicly announced in October, our number one objective was to see that the two affected communities had laws providing adequate protections to citizens, local businesses, the military, and the environment.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 9:32 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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The Division of Continuing Education at Beaufort County Community College will host a workshop that will help local businesses, including agriculture-based businesses, learn more about doing business internationally.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The next time you discuss the pleas of local businessmen for taxpayer support of their endangered firms, please remember that businesses are not expected or meant to survive the competition of the market place.
Published: Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 @ 11:54 pm
By: Warren Smith
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We should be dedicating ourselves to recapturing the state and federal tax dollars that are taken away Beaufort County residents by sourcing grants from outside our community to help fund local needs and by cutting the regulatory burdens placed on local businesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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Although I do not see any way to escape using state and federal grants as the most direct means of recapturing local taxes unfortunately sent to Raleigh and Washington, DC, I have strongly argued against matching grants to local businesses which are funded by additional burdens on local taxpayers.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The ever-elusive toymaker has chosen to materialize for the people of Washington to encourage more people to visit and shop at the small, local businesses this holiday season.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2010 @ 1:54 pm
By: BCN
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