Thanks for joining us this morning.Most North Carolina visuals showcase our state’s natural beauty – the mountains, the beaches, the rivers. People around the country find it compelling: Only seven states see more travel spending than North Carolina.This morning, we’re diving into the state’s tourism economy with a bit of a different approach. Rather than putting 800…
Read MoreThanks for tuning in this Saturday morning. Today we’re exploring two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court that could upheave much of the federal government as we know it today. One case, Moore v. United States, has been called the “quadrillion dollar question” because it could alter the very definition of taxable income. The second – actually, a…
Read MoreFrom the desk of Chuck Fuller, CEO The Results Company As we gather with our families to celebrate Thanksgiving – getting away, however briefly, from the day-to-day tasks that consume so much of our attention – I write to offer you a vision for the state we call home. I sat down to write this thinking, How…
Read MoreThanks for tuning in this Saturday morning. Today we’re going to contemplate a seemingly intractable tension point. Before we dive into it, we’ll paraphrase a philosophy championed by a North Carolina leader we deeply admire: Good leadership requires honest assessments of reality. Without sober acknowledgment of the situation at hand, it’s impossible to make good decisions. We…
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Welcome to a perfect fall weekend – thanks for spending a few minutes with TRC Nexus this morning. Mike Rusher, President of the Results Company, writing today to provide an analysis of the new Congressional, State House and State Senate maps produced by the North Carolina General Assembly to be used in the 2024 election.…
Read MoreHappy Saturday morning, and thanks for tuning in. This week, Toyota announced it would “supercharge” its Randolph County battery plant, bringing the company’s total investment to $13.9 billion and 5,000 jobs across a seven million-square-foot campus by 2030. The announcement drew national attention because of its sheer size, and rightly so. By comparison, Apple’s planned…
Read MoreThanks for joining us this morning. Over the past year, the concept of an impending “urban doom loop” has occupied an increasing share of policy and media focus. What is the urban doom loop, how might it affect North Carolina, and – most importantly – is it even a real problem? We offer analysis on these questions below. Thanks…
Read MoreThanks for tuning in this Saturday morning. Today we’re talking industrial policy – a question that’s generated heated debate for the past 50 years. We’ll dive right into it. ***America cannot endure without semiconductors. They’re necessary components in smartphones, computers, TVs, medical equipment, military weaponry, and dozens of other categories of essential goods. In 1990, the United…
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October 14th, 2023 Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today we’re following up on a piece we wrote in May about NCInnovation. Since then, the legislature endowed the organization with $500 million and set into law the rules and regulations that will govern NCInnovation’s work. A lot has been written about NCInnovation, and understandably so:…
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