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Food Lion expands To-Go service at Rockingham store
ROCKINGHAM — Don’t want to go into the store for groceries? Now you don’t have to.
NC COVID-19 Rapid Recovery program urges qualifying businesses and farms to apply for updated loan program
RALEIGH — The NC Rural Center is urging qualifying businesses to apply for COVID-19 Rapid Recovery loans through the program deadline set for Oct. 15, 2020. After the most recent pandemic recovery legislation, signed by the governor last week, the small-business and family farm-based loan program has funds available to immediately loan to qualifying businesses statewide.
Music venues, closed in North Carolina since March, struggle to survive
RALEIGH — The Pour House Music Hall and Record Shop is eerily quiet.
Dusty. Empty.
Cooper reopens gyms and bowling alleys while bars stay shuttered
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper will move North Carolina into Phase 2.5 on Friday, Sept. 4, when gyms and bowling alleys will be able to operate at 30% capacity.
OPINION: Facebook's violence standards make for a bad business plan
"Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence," reads the headline at Buzzfeed. One such employee asks "[a]t what point do we take responsibility for enabling hate filled bile to spread across our services?"
Bars may be left high and dry from Cooper’s next reopening plans
RALEIGH — Though Gov. Roy Cooper will ease some coronavirus restrictions in September, bars and private clubs may remain shuttered, Carolina Journal has learned.
New grant program accepting applications to help businesses and nonprofits hurt by COVID-19
RALEIGH — Businesses and nonprofit organizations in North Carolina that have experienced interruption due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic could qualify for up to $250,000 from a new state grant program, Gov. Roy Cooper announced (Thursday). The Department of Commerce is now accepting applications for the Job Retention Grant Program through the agency’s website.
Judge sifts through reopening lawsuits, sets deadline
RALEIGH — A N.C. Business Court judge is working through several cases against Gov. Roy Cooper from business owners seeking to reopen.
COLUMN: State shouldn't play favorites
With hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians out of work and millions fearful about their futures, state and local policymakers are about to encounter a parade of companies, industries, and special-interest groups asking for targeted tax breaks and other handouts.
Cooper mask enforcement rule confused businesses
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order requiring face masks made North Carolina businesses responsible for enforcement. But they weren’t given directions about how to comply until the order had taken effect.
