HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- High Point University issued the following news release: * * * * N.C. consumer sentiment a little bit higher than in November * Half of N.C. residents report inflation affecting "a lot" of their spending decisions * A majority (52%) of N.C. respondents say they are paying much higher prices for meat than last year * * * Inflation is still on the minds of North Carolinians interviewed for the 100th High Point University Poll. Half (50%) of North Carolin  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Feb. 9 (TNSres) -- Bank of America, a financial institution, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: * * * Growing List Of Companies Adding Wellness Tools And Resources To Help Employees Live Their Best Financial Lives * * * Bank of America today announced that over 450 corporate and commercial clients have enrolled in its Employee Banking & Investing (EBI) program - more than doubling the number of companies in the program from two years ago. Introduced  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today applauded the North Carolina Business Court for a decision that will help the North Carolina Department of Justice in its ongoing fight to protect North Carolinians' access to clean water. The ruling states that if the court finds "old" DuPont liable for PFAS contamination in North Carolina, then in addition to Chemours, its other new  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Panasonic Corporation of North America and Olympian Katie Ledecky, the most decorated female swimmer in history, jointly announced a second virtual field trip from STEM Forward, an educational program created with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Premiering February 15, 2024 at 1 PM ET and available on-demand, Panasonic's new Innovators  more

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- High Point University issued the following news release: Domino's CEO Russell Weiner, who serves as High Point University's Corporate Executive in Residence, recently talked about his unlikely career path to a roomful of business students and stressed that they should pursue their passions after graduation. "Once you know what you want to do and you love it, you'll be good at it," Weiner told several classes from HPU's Earl N. Phillips School of Business.   more

BANNER ELK, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Lees-McRae College issued the following news: Pam Vesely fell in love with Lees-McRae somewhat unexpectedly. She had been living in Asheville for a handful of years and wanted to explore the area. Having never made the trip up to Banner Elk, when she finally did make it up to the campus in the clouds she was immediately charmed by the beautiful campus, historic buildings, and students and faculty she saw milling about enjoying the cool mountain air. "I saw  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: North Carolina State University announced today that Lisa Marie L. Ferrell, Lenovo's communications officer for North America, has been named associate vice chancellor for university communications and marketing. She will start her new role on March 1. Ferrell currently leads the North America communications team at Lenovo, overseeing public relations, internal and external com  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein and Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry today led a coalition of 19 attorneys general supporting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s proposal to prohibit junk fees. These hidden junk fees end up raising costs for North Carolinians when they're shopping online, moving, purchasing tickets, and traveling. "We all know what it's like  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- The North Carolina Department of Commerce posted the following news release: Charlotte, N.C. - The North Carolina Taskforce for Offshore Wind Economic Resource Strategies (NC TOWERS) held its quarterly meeting in Charlotte February 1 to discuss the statewide opportunities that offshore wind and its supply chain offer North Carolinians. The taskforce meeting followed a third North Carolina and UK working group meeting scheduled earlier in the week, since the si  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources (DEMLR) has scheduled a public hearing to accept comments on a proposed stormwater permit for International Tie Disposal, LLC, for its facility in Richmond County. The hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 18, 2024, at the Richmond Community College - Cole A  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Governor Roy Cooper signed a Type I state disaster declaration (https://governor.nc.gov/executive-order-no-304/open) for individual assistance for Catawba County and contiguous counties that suffered damage from an EF-1 tornado on January 9, 2024. This declaration makes additional assistance available to Catawba County and surrounding counties,  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Pactolus Global School in Greenville as part of "The Year of Public Schools" education tour. The Governor was joined by teachers, students, local and state education leaders and local elected officials as he highlighted the outstanding work being done at Pactolus Global and Pitt County's public schools and the ways that public education is s  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: Aviation management company, Sovereign Aerospace, will invest $4.15 million to manufacture, sell, and service personal aircraft in Elizabethtown, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. This first U.S. manufacturing plant will bring 33 new jobs to Bladen County. "North Carolina continues to garner national attention as a leading state for aerospace manufacturing," said Governor  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 (TNSres) -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released the request for proposal to hire the organization that will help manage the Children and Families Specialty Plan. The first-of-its-kind statewide health plan will ensure access to comprehensive physical and behavioral health services for Medicaid-enrolled children, youth  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 (TNSres) -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news on Feb. 8, 2024: Today, WFAE published an article highlighting how under the disastrous Republican voucher program, North Carolina taxpayers have sent almost $483,000 to a private school that is impossible to locate and might not exist at all in the Charlotte area. Six months after investigating the Teaching Students Achieving Academy that receives scholarship money under the voucher prog  more

CARY, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- SAS Institute, a business analytics software and services provider, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Today, AI and analytics leader SAS announced that it joined more than 200 of the nation's leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI. Established by the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Tech  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: A new toolkit is now available to align North Carolina's rapidly changing workforce with the K-12 public education system. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt joined the NC Chamber President and CEO Gary Salamido to unveil a new Employer Toolkit. This project is the latest partnership between the two, and a follow-up to the 2022 launch  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Feb. 8 -- The University of North Carolina's School of the Arts issued the following news release: Six permanent faculty members and one adjunct faculty member at the UNCSA have been named winners of the Excellence in Teaching Awards for 2023-24, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Patrick J. Sims has announced. They are: Allison George, High School Academic Program; Michael Miller, School of Filmmaking; Maria Serkin, School of Music; Paul Sharpe, School of Mus  more

GOLDSBORO, North Carolina, Feb. 9 -- Wayne Community College issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Today marks a historic day in Wayne County, as the leaders of the county's three largest educational institutions came together at Wayne Community College to officially launch TEACH Wayne. The innovative and collaborative teacher education preparation pathway between Wayne County Public Schools (WCPS), Wayne Community College (WCC), and the University of Mount Olive (UMO) is a high qu  more