Month: June 2026
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Nearly two centuries ago, bricklayers and stonemasons began construction of what would become the Fayetteville Arsenal. It stored weapons and ammunition, protected by large iron gates, for only a few decades until General William T. Sherman razed it in 1865. Some remnants remain scattered about the site,…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. This November, North Carolinians will have the opportunity to amend their constitution again. They’ll decide on at least two tax-related proposals: a 3.5% cap on the state’s income tax rate, and a requirement for state lawmakers to limit property taxes imposed by local governments. After 15 years of policy choices that…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. In 1989, Financial World magazine surveyed corporate America and crowned its “CEO of the Decade.” The honor did not go to a Wall Street financier or a Silicon Valley pioneer. It went to a soft-spoken Charlotte engineer named Bill Lee, the chairman of Duke Power. Lee had joined…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Four weeks from today will mark 250 years since the formal adoption (not the signing, as commonly believed) by the Continental Congress of “the unanimous declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Thus began a series of cataclysmic events that resulted, this year, in a celebration of the world’s…