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CONCORD, N.C. -- The Silverman Group broke ground Thursday on the construction of two new speculative buildings, adding to the inventory of large vacant commercial buildings the area has to market to potential employers.
“We need more facilities like we have here today, like we have starting here today,” said Patrick Coughlin, president and CEO of the Cabarrus Economic Development Corporation and Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce. “You guys have opened up the floodgates.”
MONROE — Congressman Richard Hudson, R-8, visited Union Academy on Wednesday to tour the facility and talk to students, faculty and staff.
Hudson is a member of the Education and the Workforce committee and sits on the Workforce Protections and High Education and Workforce Training subcommittees.
CONCORD -- Exit 49 stakeholders continued their push for road and infrastructure improvements Monday, meeting with a U.S. congressman and warning that traffic gridlock could choke off the area’s economic success.
House Republicans demonstrated on Thursday their support for restoring funding to a U.S. military that could shrink to its lowest size in decades as global threats rise.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are pushing back against a Navy review to potentially ban the sale of tobacco products on Navy and Marine Corps facilities, saying it violates servicemembers’ “rights.”
Last month, Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, a Navy spokeswoman for the secretary, confirmed Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is taking a new look at tobacco use across the service. A Navy official, who spoke to Stars and Stripes on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the topic, said one option on the table is banning tobacco sales on Navy bases and ships.