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Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. Brad Briner is six months into his new job as state treasurer. It’s been a busy start to a first term: working to engineer a turnaround of North Carolina’s pension fund underperformance, and convincing lawmakers to transition to a new model for pension fund governance, and handling a…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. In May, Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek assumed appointment authority for the five-member North Carolina State Board of Elections, power that previously rested with the governor. It was the culmination of a long-term effort by the state legislature to do away with single-party control of the state’s…
Thank you for joining us on this one big, beautiful Saturday morning. Today we’re diving into President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which we’ll abbreviate through the rest of this piece as “BBA.” Everywhere you look, there’s an opinion. The BBA is a cruel redistribution of federal resources that will ultimately…
From the Desk of Chuck Fuller, CEO, The Results Company Thank you for the privilege of sharing this message with you today, America’s 249th birthday. In my younger years, I brimmed with confidence that, if confronted with some urgent national call to action, I would rise to the occasion and charge forward to victory. Of course I…
Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Today, we’d like to take the opportunity to highlight a few exciting projects from our friends at the American Battlefield Trust (ABT). A few months ago, Nexus wrote about several exciting ABT events leading up to the release of the travel documentary — Travels with Darley: North Carolina Revolutionary Road Trip. During…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. The list of notable names to come out of Fordyce, Arkansas (population: 4,300) is what one might expect from a small town in the rural south: war heroes and ball players. But nestled in after Ray Porter (World War II general) and Kevin Williams (defensive tackle for…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. Today we’re checking back in on a project we believe in: NCInnovation. The nonprofit’s mission is to provide grants and R&D support to promising university research with potential for commercial applications once it exits the university. Put another way, NCInnovation backs the kind of university research that has…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning in early June – the time of year North Carolina’s peak tourism season is about to get into full swing. North Carolina consistently ranks among the best places to do business in the country. But we also rank among the top-five most-visited states, clocking in at just under…
From the desk of Chuck Fuller, CEO of The Results Company Thank you for joining us on the Saturday of this Memorial Day weekend. I’m an avid student of military history, as regular readers well know. My father manned a 50-caliber machine gun on B-24 Liberators during World War II (which I wrote about in this space…
From the desk of Mike Rusher Some time ago I was asked the question, “Do you know what the two dates on our state flag signify?” My mind raced back to American history classes – where does your mind go? The North Carolina state flag features two dates, highlighted in yellow ribbon: April 12, 1776,…