Dec. 10. By Dave Vieser. When best friends Brian Burchill and Robert Maynard opened their first Famous Toastery’s store back in 2005 little did they know their “cozy” breakfast spot in a small house turned restaurant in Huntersville would grow into 34 busy locations throughout the US, including 21 in North Carolina. With plans for […]

With more than 42,000 Americans dead from opioid-related overdoses in 2016—40 percent of the deaths involved prescription painkillers—prescient employers are taking steps to prevent opioid misuse and addiction. The opioid crisis cost the economy $95 billion in 2016, with $21.4 billion spent on treating patients who suffer from opioid abuse, a new analysis from Altarum found. […]

By Erica Batten.  The construction industry is projected to grow 4.5 percent over the next few years, reaching $1.2 trillion in real output by 2020. Much of the growth is directly related to government activity. Reconstruction of roads, bridges and other infrastructure, along with the government’s plan to make renewable energy 20 percent of the […]