As we think about growing our commercial foundation (and subsequent tax base) as a region, we tend to think about the ingredients that, when combined, make growth an inevitable outcome. Whether it’s at the government level, the nonprofit sector, or the private world, one ingredient is standing out more clearly than perhaps any time in…Read More from Sound Strategy: Further incentives can help address the region’s essential housing issue
Thinking about outcomes in this New Year, with all its changing perspectives, can be daunting at best. Socrates teaches us to always begin with a definition, of course, and perhaps the most human challenge of all lies not in our ability to provide the right answers but in our ability to ask the right questions….Read More from Sound Strategy: Five important questions for greater Outer Banks region’s economy in 2023
The welcome contrarians among us will occasionally point to a potentially inevitable decline in the real estate market reminiscent of the 2008 memory. History will repeat itself, they might say, as it always does. And indeed, it might. However, as Howard Marks points out, there is a difference between pessimism and skepticism. Perhaps a better…Read More from Sound Strategy: If history repeats itself in real estate market, Outer Banks will be ready
In the wake of rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve across a large portion of the state, and the attack on a substation in Moore County last month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper released a commentary Tuesday on ensuring reliable electrical service. North Carolinians deserve reliable, sustainable electricity at a reasonable cost, but because of increasingly…Read More from Commentary: Gov. Cooper – Sustainable electricity we can rely on
The end of the year is a great time to look back, learn, and plan ahead. In doing so, we understand that it’s only by placing the future in context that we can arrive at the destination we set out for at the beginning. In other words, you can’t see the picture if you’re within…Read More from Sound Strategy: End of year reflections
WOBX has launched a weekly commentary, “Sound Strategy”, from our publisher Clark Twiddy that will feature issues, ideas and information focused on our mission statement of “Covering the Business News of the Greater Outer Banks”. The famed economist John Maynard Keynes once remarked, in considering the future of financial markets, that it was important to…Read More from Sound Strategy: Sound preparation for bad weather is good strategy
WOBX is launching a weekly commentary, “Sound Strategy”, from our publisher Clark Twiddy that will feature issues, ideas and information focused on our mission statement of “Covering the Business News of the Greater Outer Banks”. As our visitor economy regionally continues to evolve based on several years of remarkable growth, we’re reminded that the only…Read More from Sound Strategy: Linking our state’s visitor economy to our own
As we think about growing our commercial foundation (and subsequent tax base) as a region, we tend to think about the ingredients that, when combined, make growth an inevitable outcome. Whether it’s at the government level, the nonprofit sector, or the private world, one ingredient is standing out more clearly than perhaps any time in…Read More from Sound Strategy: Further incentives can help address the region’s essential housing issue
Thinking about outcomes in this New Year, with all its changing perspectives, can be daunting at best. Socrates teaches us to always begin with a definition, of course, and perhaps the most human challenge of all lies not in our ability to provide the right answers but in our ability to ask the right questions….Read More from Sound Strategy: Five important questions for greater Outer Banks region’s economy in 2023
The welcome contrarians among us will occasionally point to a potentially inevitable decline in the real estate market reminiscent of the 2008 memory. History will repeat itself, they might say, as it always does. And indeed, it might. However, as Howard Marks points out, there is a difference between pessimism and skepticism. Perhaps a better…Read More from Sound Strategy: If history repeats itself in real estate market, Outer Banks will be ready
In the wake of rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve across a large portion of the state, and the attack on a substation in Moore County last month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper released a commentary Tuesday on ensuring reliable electrical service. North Carolinians deserve reliable, sustainable electricity at a reasonable cost, but because of increasingly…Read More from Commentary: Gov. Cooper – Sustainable electricity we can rely on
The end of the year is a great time to look back, learn, and plan ahead. In doing so, we understand that it’s only by placing the future in context that we can arrive at the destination we set out for at the beginning. In other words, you can’t see the picture if you’re within…Read More from Sound Strategy: End of year reflections
WOBX has launched a weekly commentary, “Sound Strategy”, from our publisher Clark Twiddy that will feature issues, ideas and information focused on our mission statement of “Covering the Business News of the Greater Outer Banks”. The famed economist John Maynard Keynes once remarked, in considering the future of financial markets, that it was important to…Read More from Sound Strategy: Sound preparation for bad weather is good strategy
WOBX is launching a weekly commentary, “Sound Strategy”, from our publisher Clark Twiddy that will feature issues, ideas and information focused on our mission statement of “Covering the Business News of the Greater Outer Banks”. As our visitor economy regionally continues to evolve based on several years of remarkable growth, we’re reminded that the only…Read More from Sound Strategy: Linking our state’s visitor economy to our own
