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Business Intelligence for the Golden Crescent: Lake Norman • Cabarrus • University City
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Who’ll pay for coal ash clean-up?
Commissioner Michael Miltich speaks at forum
Concord Concord Regional Regional Airport Airport on on the the up up and and up up Ecomonic Output
$821 million
Total Jobs
4,500
State and local tax revenue
$30 million
Personal income generated
$191 million
Airport budget
$10.8 million
City employees
40+ Source: NCDOT Division of Aviation
BY ERICA BATTEN Among many other hot-button issues, education is the top priority for local legislators. Newly-elected state Rep. Christy Clark and Sen. Natasha Marcus were part of the Democratic blue wave that swept the North Carolina legislature in November. Both women represent Cornelius in the legislature. Clark is a Huntersville resident, and Marcus lives in Davidson. Both Clark and Marcus spoke at the January Newsmakers Breakfast hosted by “Business Today.” Clark replaced former Cornelius Town Commissioner John Bradford in the NC House of Representatives and Marcus replaced former Cornelius Mayor Jeff See Legislators page 12
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If you can’t stand meetings, you’re not alone. Most people confess they daydream during office meetings or do work that has nothing to do with the, uh, business or lack of business at hand. This amounts to millions and millions of people every day in America who are not in the zone when their managers think they are. Fact: There are 55 million business meetings a day, according to UNCCharlotte Professor Steven Rogelberg. Kidding: At any given time everyone in America is in a meeting. Fact: It defo feels that way sometimes. Imagine the drain on U.S. productivity if 90 percent of those who attend those 55 million daily meetings admit they’re daydreaming. In “The Surprising Science of Meetings,” (Oxford University Press, $24.95) Rogelberg, director of
BY ERICA BATTEN Officials from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality spent much of January traveling to areas of the state where Duke Energy operates coal-fired electric plants. The
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DEQ hosted six public meetings to inform residents about cleanup options for coal ash ponds at the sites and to collect comments from the public. And while the overwhelming concern was about the health impacts of coal ash disposal, there was an undercurrent of concern about the economic implications: Who pays for the clean up? “I came here to speak my mind about Duke Power,” said John Babilon, who has lived in Catawba, a small town on the Catawba River about 12 miles north of Marshall Steam Station, since 1991. “Any business that has expenses should pay it out of their earnings.” Charles Knox, a commercial Realtor