As a seemingly endless winter at last shows mercy on local businesses, will Western North Carolina's economic forecast cast a chill over an Appalachian spring? Local sources differ on what the future holds for our local economy. "I think things are definitely improving. We got hurt because Florida real estate got hammered," says James F. […]
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Getting a little help
Anyone running (or thinking of running) a small business in Asheville enjoys a number of perks by virtue of just being here, from our fabled Western North Carolina quality of life to a widespread mindset that favors small and locally owned over big and boxy. Asheville's also home to an abundance of small-business advisory and […]
Economic summit highlights new opportunities
The green economy, the power of manufacturing and the economic value of an educated work force cropped up repeatedly during AdvantageWest's economic summit, Pathways to a New Economy, held March 29 in the Diana Wortham Theatre. "We had people from all over," says President and CEO Scott Hamilton: business owners, elected officials, community leaders and […]
Snow! OMG! Asheville-area residents report on snow
When Snowpocalypse 2009 happened, Asheville Twitter Nation was ready with a hashtag: #AVLsnOMG, a tag even picked up by Progress Energy’s own Twitter account.
Using the snOMG tag and Twitter, we gathered a greatest-hits sampling of both the serious and the silly from over 40 pages of weekend Tweets from the City That Heat and Power Forgot. Here’s the worst WNC snowstorm in over 15 years, as it happened (picture by @bentmatches).