http://www.wfae.org Feed provided by WFAE 90.7 FM: Charlotte's NPR News Source en-us © 2012 WFAE 90.7 WFAE 90.7 wfae@wfae.org Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:53 EST Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00 EST WFAE 90.7 Jobs Deal For Badin Falls Apart Clean Tech has abandoned plans to open a silicon metal and recycled steel plant on the former Alcoa smelter site in Badin. Clean Tech had threatened to pull its plans unless Stanly County Commissioners withdrew their opposition to another hydropower license for Alcoa. http://66.225.205.104/JR20111219.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8118&action=display Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00 EST Jobs Deal For Badin Falls Apart WFAE 90.7 Eastern NC Cities Lead Charge Against Duke, Progress Merger Federal regulators have dashed any hopes Duke and Progress Energy had of getting their merger approved by the end of this year. The utility companies are scrambling to address concerns their marriage will be too much of a monopoly in the Carolinas , but say they're committed to the merger, even if it takes longer to tie the knot than they'd hoped. http://66.225.205.104/1216DUKEProgress.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8104&action=display Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00 EST Eastern NC Cities Lead Charge Against Duke, Progress Merger WFAE 90.7 Charlotte Council To Approve Chiquita Incentives Tonight After all the yellow bow-ties and "We're bananas for Chiquita" fanfare of the last two weeks, it's pretty clear tonight the Charlotte City Council will formally approve the unusually generous incentives deal it offered the company. http://66.225.205.104/JR20111212.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8079&action=display Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00 EST Charlotte Council To Approve Chiquita Incentives Tonight WFAE 90.7 Alcoa Postcards Pressure Stanly County Alcoa and a company called Clean Tech have given Stanly County commissioners an ultimatum: Support Alcoa's request to renew a 50-year hydropower license on the Yadkin River, or miss out on 450 jobs. The deadline is December 15. http://66.225.205.104/JR20111208.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8072&action=display Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:00 EST Alcoa Postcards Pressure Stanly County WFAE 90.7 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Doesn't Draw Crowds On Thanksgiving The NASCAR Hall of Fame was open on Thanksgiving Day this year. But it didn't lure the crowds that some had hoped it would. http://66.225.205.104/LM20111128.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8028&action=display Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:00 EST NASCAR Hall Of Fame Doesn't Draw Crowds On Thanksgiving WFAE 90.7 County Governments Sue MERS To Recover Recording Fees Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems may not be a household name, but perhaps it should be. If you've bought a house or refinanced in the last decade, there's a good chance you signed a document at closing that designates MERS as your new lender. http://66.225.205.104/GC20111128.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8022&action=display Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:00 EST County Governments Sue MERS To Recover Recording Fees WFAE 90.7 Black Friday Also Big For Plumbers Post Thanksgiving shoppers are out in force, and so are the city's plumbers. Think about it: All the extra holiday guests, and extra cooking. And all the extra... stuff... poured down the kitchen sink. http://66.225.205.104/1125Roto.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=8020&action=display Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:00 EST Black Friday Also Big For Plumbers WFAE 90.7 Lowe's 3Q Earnings Report A Mixed Bag Home improvement retailer Lowe's had a rough third quarter. As WFAE's Scott Graf reports, the Mooresville company saw earnings decline by more than 40 percent. http://66.225.205.104/SG20111114a.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=7981&action=display Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:00 EST Lowe's 3Q Earnings Report A Mixed Bag WFAE 90.7 BofA Sheds Even More Chinese Bank Shares Bank of America is continuing to shed assets as a means of raising capital. Scott Graf reports that the bank is selling most of its remaining shares in China Construction Bank. http://66.225.205.104/SG20111114.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=7980&action=display Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:00 EST BofA Sheds Even More Chinese Bank Shares WFAE 90.7 A Conversation With CommunityOne Bank CEO The parent company of North Carolina's CommunityONE Bank recently completed its purchase of Bank of Granite Corporation, in a merger designed to rescue two financially-faltering community banks. The combined bank will take the CommunityONE name--and is led by a team of former First Union, Wachovia and Bank of America executives. WFAE's Mark Rumsey spoke with Brian Simpson, CEO of the new CommunityONE Bank. http://66.225.205.104/MR20111104.mp3 http://www.wfae.org/wfae/stat_search.cfm?id=7952&action=display Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:00 EST A Conversation With CommunityOne Bank CEO