How North Carolina’s D.H. Griffin Company became central to the World Trade Center recovery Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Today, we’re bringing you a special edition of Morning Updates to commemorate the 24th anniversary of September 11, 2001, a day that forever changed the United States and the world. That day is seared into…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. We’re eight months into Governor Josh Stein’s tenure: What can we discern so far about his governing philosophy and style? His predecessor, Roy Cooper, had a famously contentious relationship with the Republican-led General Assembly, a dynamic that produced raucous inter-branch fights. The state had no formally adopted…
From the Desk of Chuck Fuller, CEO, The Results Company I trust that you’re enjoying this American pastime of a long early September weekend with friends and family. To me, Labor Day is always a time of thankfulness, reflection, and celebration for the American workforce – the most dynamic and productive the world has ever…
Thank you for joining us this morning. Today, we’re diving into one of the most substantive new laws enacted this year in North Carolina that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves: the REINS Act. We’ll get right to it. *** Government imposes rules on private industry. In the light most favorable, the government does so…
Thanks for joining us this Saturday morning. Ask a person on the street to list North Carolina’s best-known museums, and you’ll probably hear about the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, or the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. However, you may not know that one of the state’s oldest, most historic museums is…
Ask somebody to list industries that employ “leaders” in American society, and you’ll probably hear some combination of the military, high finance, politics, maybe religion. But if we define leaders as those who have an outsized impact on the lives, livelihoods, and beliefs of others, then one occupation ought to appear near the top of…
Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. The headlines about President Donald Trump’s cuts to university research funding track the polarization of our era. According to the headlines, America is simultaneously spiraling into the dark ages and courageously fixing an outdated, ideological federal research bureaucracy. “Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril,”…
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…