Wilmington and NC clean up on Forbes’ best places for business and careers

Forwarded by a colleague who works on economic development in the area:
Wilmington is 13th on a list of best metro areas for business and careers in the nation! Raleigh is first, Durham third, Charlotte, Winston-Salem…North Carolina dominates the rankings of best business cities, as the article mentions. And Wilmington kills as — in the Grove [...]

Third Annual Breakfast with your Legislators

Please remember to put the Breakfast with your Legislators to be held April 20, 2009, 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. at the Burney Center, UNC-Wilmington on your calendar. The free public breakfast spnsored by the Star News, Time Warner Cable, UNC-Wilmington, Council of Neighborhood Associations, WAAV Radio and CBS-10 WILM, is free to the public [...]

Sign of the Times?

Is this the lamest sign in Wilmington? That clock (or former logo) is a real eyesore.
Hopefully, with all the work that’s going on at Long Leaf, a new and improved entrance is in the works too.
Anyone know what’s going up where the beer-and-wine-serving theatre used to be?

Titan: Boseman is “judge, jury, and executioner”

Here’s an angry letter yesterday from Titan representative Bob Warwick to Senator Boseman in response to her introduction of a moratorium on cement plants.
Looks like the sugar campaign has come off the rails!

Senator Boseman today introduced NC Senate Bill 699 calling for a moratorium on the construction of cement plants in North Carolina. The bill [...]

Essay: Wilmington IT and the Coral Reef

“Information technology is like a coral reef…”

Recently, Titan cement has ramped up its efforts to squelch debate and tar opponents with some expensive new marketing and technology. If you look carefully, you can see that they’ve entertained the services of local PR and IT firms like Talk, Inc., like Blu Zeus Interactive. Collectively, they build good-looking, disingenuous websites about “new jobs for Wilmington”, try to brand the giant, old-school polluter as an environmental steward and friend of Wilmington, use lots of earth tones and hipster fonts in their newsletters.

Sherman Alexie speaking at UNCW

Writer Sherman Alexie will be speaking at Kenan Auditorium on Monday, March 23rd. Tickets are 9 dollars. The lecture is part of the university’s leadership lecture series, and is focused on his young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which one a National Book Award. See Ben Steelman’s blog Bookmarks for [...]

Wilmington’s Cleanocratic Party

Wow…The author of the blog “Wilmington Shame”, pictured below, does not like Senator Boseman:
CLEAN IT UP DAMMIT

Masthead:

There has always been an undercurrent of corruption and deceptive political practices in Wilmington dating back to the 1898 revolt. There are no accurate accounts, no accountability, no justice on many of the incidents that take place along the [...]

Wilmington’s Gone to the Dogs

Ah, dogs. Any humans who’ve had the pleasure of having one own them will happily tell you the fascinating con game their four-legged friend embodies.