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When the financial sector 
needed a lobbyist, 
they called on him (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: August 16,2011

It was a bit like “Animal House,” except everyone worked on Capitol Hill and toga parties were no longer in fashion. Charlotte native Walter Price and five of his buddies, all recent Davidson College graduates, were renting a big house in Alexandria, Va., just outside Washington, D.C., during the heady 1990s, when the economy was [...]


Developers still suing over failed oceanfront project (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 2,2011

It was 2006, at the peak of the real estate bubble, and a group of investors were planning to build a large mixed-use oceanfront development on the North Carolina coast, featuring 11 buildings, 278 condominiums and 60,000 square feet of retail space. But the Carolina Beach project went south with the economy. And five years [...]