Southern Business and Development
The privately funded North Carolina Biosciences Organization launched an advertising campaign in the winter in the Boston Globe in an effort to lure biotech concerns and skilled labor to the Tar Heel State. The advertisement invited CEOs of biotech companies in Massachusetts to expand or relocate to North Carolina. Officials with NCBio said that about 18,000 workers are employed in biotech fields in North Carolina and that skilled labor is in short supply, considering companies steal workers from one another all the time. North Carolina recently passed a bill that will fund a $64 million worker training initiative that centers exclusively on biotech manufacturing. NCBio is an organization funded by memberships. It was almost a clean sweep for Southern states in this year's Plants, Sites & Parks' top 10 locations for business. The No. 1 state for relocating and expanding industry according to PS&P this year is Virginia, followed by South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Texas, all Southern states. Rounding out the top 10 are Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Indiana and Pennsylvania? Since 1996, when the William S. Lee Act was adopted in North Carolina, lawmakers in the Tar Heel State have tinkered with incentives for locating and expanding industry several times. There's nothing wrong with that. After all, economies change - North Carolina's certainly has - and as a result, state incentives for industry should as well. In the 1990s, North Carolina officials tried to steer investment and job making deals to its rural regions with a tier-based incentive plan. That's exactly what the William S. Lee Act was designed to do; give out more incentives to companies investing in poorer regions of the state and less to companies investing and hiring in NC's metro areas. At the beginning of this decade, the Act was adjusted with the addition of a "big deal" initiative that was designed to lure large, single investments such as automotive assembly plants.
Quarterly Report, Jan-Mar 99
Advanced Drawing Students, Ms. Socorro Hernandez-Hinek, sponsor, produced a video project, ASelf-Portrait Series;@ took a field trip to Charlotte, North Carolina to visit the exhibit, ATreasures of Women Pharaohs;@had a display in the Helen T. Chick Building entitled AAdvanced Student Works on Paper@ during the month of January; and displayed first works at an AExhibit of Introduction to Painting@ in the Helen T.
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Greensboro, NC: You have had very favorable comments about the Honda Pilot and the new Toyota 4Runner. Which would be the best for everyday around town use? How about highway driving? How about light off-road? How about snowy, icy roads? How about if you were to use it for all of the above, which would be your choice?
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