Marshall Terry

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday next year, let’s take a moment to remember a protest involving tea that occurred shortly before the revolution. And no, it's not the one you're thinking of.

It’s now been three years since Charlotte City Council allowed for the creation of social districts. You know those areas where you can walk down the sidewalk while drinking alcohol. Several businesses and neighborhoods immediately expressed interest, but so far Charlotte only has one. For more on this and other business stories, Lindsey Banks of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry for this week's BizWorthy.

This week, WFAE's Marshall Terry and WRAL's Paul Specht are fact-checking a claim Gov. Josh Stein made in June. In a post on X, Stein wrote, “Guns are the leading cause of death for children in North Carolina.” For more, Paul Specht of WRAL joined WFAE's Marshall Terry.

Growth is still the story of Charlotte, but as the economy muddles along, some of that growth and stratospheric home prices might be cooling off. Still, there's plenty of reason for optimism, and several classrooms-worth of people moving here every day, according to the latest statistics. WFAE's Marshall Terry and The Ledger's Tony Mecia discuss this, and other local business stories, on this week's BizWorthy.

More women are putting off having children or deciding not to have them at all. And it’s not just because of the rising cost of child care and other expenses. It’s also because of growing concern over access to reproductive health care following the Supreme Court’s decision three years ago overturning Roe v. Wade. That prompted states to quickly tighten rules on abortions.

A powerful North Carolina state lawmaker is in a legal fight with his former business partners in the hemp industry. Rep. John Bell’s district includes Goldsboro in eastern North Carolina. Those former business partners are accusing him of threatening to use his “power and influence” to jail them. The fight provides a rare peek into the highly competitive hemp industry and the politics that accompany it. For more, I'm joined now by Jeffrey Billman, who wrote about it for the Assembly.

So Charlotte's office market has a problem that's often described as a “flight to quality." That's employers leaving decades-old office buildings in favor of shiny, newer buildings with modern amenities like coffee bars and Instagram walls. Makes sense, right? Especially as a way to lure workers back to the cubicle farms. But is this “flight to quality” really happening? Maybe not quite according to new data. For more on this and other business stories, WFAE’s Marshall Terry is joined by Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter, for our segment BizWorthy.

This week, WFAE's Marshall Terry and WRAL's Paul Specht are fact-checking two claims. The first is related to an expansion of internet access in the state under a Biden-era law. In a recent post on his Truth Social site, President Trump called the Digital Equity Act racist and illegal and said he will end it.

We're going to get an update on what's been going on at the General Assembly in Raleigh this session. But instead of focusing on the typical big bills like the budget, we're going to look at some fishy business lawmakers have been up to — literally.

Construction in Charlotte is still slow. New quarterly data from CoStar show the number of new apartments and industrial projects have dropped sharply, while almost no new offices are being built. WFAE's Marshall Terry and The Charlotte Ledger's Tony Mecia discuss this, and other business stories, on this week's BizWorthy.