National Financial Literacy Month is recognized in the United States in April and the effort highlights the critical need for Americans to learn economic and financial literacy. Currently 4 out of every 10 people in the country don’t understand how to balance a simple checkbook and 1 out of every 5 children are born in […]
Simpson “Skip” Brown is well known throughout Winston-Salem – he is one of Wake Forest’s best all-time basketball players, a former banking executive with Bank of America, and the founder of TriStone Community Bank. The Boston Celtics drafted Skip after graduation, but he eventually failed to make the team’s final roster. Afterwards he would dedicate […]
For the past couple decades, communities across the country have been hyper focused on downtown revitalization, small towns and large cities awakened to the importance of having a thriving central business district. City leaders sought to fight back after decades of losing business to the expanding suburban malls. Booming downtowns provide much needed tax revenue, […]
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit, commonly known as WOTC (like Yahtzee, but with a “W”), is an incentive for small business owners to hire certain types of employees and eliminate barriers that certain individuals face when seeking employment. Employers are eligible to receive a tax credit for nine categories when hiring a new employee for […]
The Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce hosted their annual “State of the Economy” luncheon at the Benton Convention Center in Downtown on February 22. The event attracted over 1,000 business and community leaders from companies, non-profits, government, and educational institutions that all have a deeply vested interest in the local economy. The keynote speaker was Tim […]
For Lafayette Jones, whether its personal, business, or community – relationships have been the primary driver for success. Born in Buffalo, New York, Jones’ relationships have carried him all over the country; Washington, D.C., Texas, Georgia, and right here to North Carolina. I’ve known Mr. Jones for over a decade, but I didn’t truly get […]
Curtis Wynn has a big role, a big heart, a big family, and a passion for small communities. We connected on a rainy Saturday morning during his “quiet time” – a two hour window before his wife rises. Wynn was already thinking ahead to what he needed to accomplish later in the day, which included […]
Widely known historian Carter G. Woodson created “Negro History Week”, which was the precursor to Black History Month, and celebrated annually during the second week of February. Woodson eventually convinced the Department of Education in North Carolina to participate along with a handful of other states agreeing to teach the history of African-Americans during the […]
President Donald Trump is the 45th person in our nation’s short history to occupy the White House, the first business man to successfully win a national election, but also the most controversial POTUS in the modern era. Trump attracts strong emotional responses from all voters whether the debate is about immigration, trade, healthcare, energy, or […]
It’s 2018 and with the arrival of a new year comes new opportunities to accomplish your goals – start a business, stop arguing with your spouse, leave a dead end job, or even rediscover your relationship with God – we all have a vision of what we may want in life. Frustration comes when we […]
