DURHAM, N.C. – Business owners interested in improving their prospects for doing business as retailers or providing professional services in downtown Durham should take note of another round of funding now available through the City of Durham.

The North Carolina Department of Revenue is permitting victims of the weekend’s deadly tornadoes to file their state taxes late.  Here is the press release with the pertinent information:

We have a new litigator in our office:  David McKenzie.  His official bio will give you the facts and figures, but will not give you the true measure of the man.

While attorneys are ethically bound to “zealously represent” the interests of their clients, many of us take that as license to be unpleasant, overly aggressive or even abrasive.   

Anyone who is at all active in the Triangle business community knows we are a breeding ground for social enterprise – companies that are formed to achieve a social purpose as well as make a living for the founders.  Social entrepreneurs have two cutting edge resources to available to them in North Carolina  — the [...]

Last week my personal Facebook status was: How do you turn cleaning the linen closet into a drinking game? It was a tongue-in-cheek question, posted to make myself accountable for starting and finishing a disagreeable task.  Yet it garnered more responses than many of my status updates. I ended up with a lot of momentum.