North Carolina lawmakers are beginning to look at how they would tax the shale gas drilling companies for extracting gas from the ground in the state.
Members of the legislative commission that handles laws on energy heard Tuesday afternoon about how states that allow fracking charge companies for removing gas from the ground.
North Carolina Lawmakers Look At How To Tax Fracking Companies
Plaque Honors Historic Significance of High Point Market
The state Department of Cultural Resources has installed a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker at High Point Market.
Gov. Pat McCrory is scheduled to attend the unveiling ceremony there today.
The original market building was constructed in 1921 with 249,000 square feet of show space. Now the market offers 11.5 million square feet, and contributes more than $5 billion dollars to the state economy every year.
How The World Cup Moves Stock Prices
As the 2014 World Cup draws to a close, all eyes are on Brazil. Historical data shows the effects of this tournament may go far beyond the walls of the stadium.
How To Sell A Home? Let Someone Else Live There
About a year ago, Cora Blinsman’s mom passed away. Needless to say, it was a really hard on her. She started taking stock of her own life. Cora had been a full-time, stay-at-home mom for 20 years, and she was feeling burnt out. She needed space. So … she got a lot of it.
The Most Common Jobs For The Rich, Middle Class And Poor
To remedy that, we made this graph. It shows the 10 most popular jobs in each income bracket. Click on each job to see where it appears in different income brackets.
The jobs here look shockingly familiar.
How Will North Carolina Tax And Regulate Airbnb And Uber?
North Carolina lawmakers are taking their first look at how to regulate networks of individuals who buy and sell services between each other, a billion-dollar global industry that already operates in dozens of cities across the state.
One of the peer-to-peer economy’s biggest exponents, Airbnb, accounts for about 2,700 residential rental listings across North Carolina, and drivers who pick up passengers with their personal cars using the application Uber operate in ten cities here.
Dan Ariely Exposes The Flaws In Our Decisions
Dan Ariely works in contradictions. He studies behavioral economics and points out that humans are logical but irrational beings.
How do we assign monetary value to a thought or an idea? How do we decide when a lie is more valuable than the truth? Are we really in control of the decisions we make on a daily basis?
At the crossroads of psychology and economics, Ariely has made it his life’s work to study the idea that some of our best intentions can lead to our most irrational behavior.
Study: Higher Education Has $63.5 Billion Impact On N.C. Economy
The state’s higher education institutions had a $63.5 billion impact on the state’s economy in the 2012-13 fiscal year, according to a new study.
Higher education leaders say the report shows that the North Carolina’s institutions of higher education are providing a strong return on investment for students and taxpayers.
It notes that taxpayers invested $4.3 billion to support higher education in 2012-13, and received a $17 billion return.
The Changing Economy Of Western North Carolina
Rural communities in western North Carolina are in the midst of an economic shift.
Human Stories From The Heart of Coal Country
The Carolina Theatre of Durham Is More Than $1 Million In Debt
The Carolina Theatre of Durham has been celebrating record attendance and revenue—up 42% in the past two years—from $3.5 million to $5 million.
But theater administrators revealed yesterday that because of accounting "errors and omissions," they are actually more than $1 million dollars in debt.
The theater receives an annual $650,000 subsidy from the city of Durham, and City Manager Tom Bonfield is trying to understand the magnitude of the problem.
Experts Bullish On North Carolina's 2016 Economic Forecast
At the annual Economic Forecast Forum Wednesday, executives and Governor Pat McCrory convened to share their opinions on the state’s economic climate.