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Many journalists have read the book and seen the movie All The President s Men. The tale of the reporting behind the Watergate break-in has long been an inspiration for many to enter the profession, and it contains one of the most classic lines: Follow the money.
That means, of course, that money is the driving force in our world in good and bad and simply mundane ways.
And money was at the root of many of this week s biggest stories. To start, Charlotte s City Manager Marcus Jones revealed his budget for the upcoming year. In a presentation to City Council and reporters, he focused on how the budget did not include a tax hike, but contained higher starting salaries and raises for most employees.
/ You ve probably seen the Varnadore Building a tall, beige cube with graffiti on top if you ve ever driven on Independence Boulevard near uptown Charlotte.
Charlotte s Varnadore Building is set to get a makeover. While you probably don t recognize the name, you most likely have seen the building. It s that abandoned seven-story, cube-shaped building sort of by itself on Independence Boulevard near the intersection with Albemarle Road. For more about the plans for the building, we turn to Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter for our segment BizWorthy.
Marshall Terry: First, Tony, give us a little history of this building, which thousands of people drive by every day.