Steve Spain was born in Washington D.C., graduated from high school in Tallahassee, Florida, and attended college in Gainesville, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts. He has a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy
Beneficiary … client … consumer … customer … guest … partner … participant … recipient. Those are just some of the names used to refer to the people wi ...
On October 11, 2014 Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity held its annual “Interfaith Build Day” in honor of World Habitat Day. Each year, we invite volunteers from the wide variety of faith comm ...
My first office job was at a family-owned publishing company in Boston. The owners believed that it was a good idea for everyone who worked there to appreciate one another’s contributions, so th ...
For many decades following World War II, the conventional wisdom in the United States was that buying a home was almost always better than renting. It was a matter of simple math. If your mortgage, ta ...
What are you doing next Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday? Those are the days that individual volunteers and groups work on Habitat for Humanity construction projects. Most of the Wednesday and Thurs ...
The battle rages on in Raleigh over film incentives. Think tanks and industry consultants hurl average- versus median-wage grenades at each other as they defend their grant-based or rebate-driven tren ...
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by Dr. Tom Barth, Professor of Public Administration at UNCW. He has been conducting research on values-based decision making in local governme ...
When it turns into a driveway! That joke cracked me up when I was 7 years old and led to a lifetime of fascination for wordplay and puns. If you share an appreciation for that kind of humor (unlike ma ...
A friend of mine who works in the corporate world once admitted to me that he envied my nonprofit position. “You’re free from the tyranny of the bottom line and only get judged by the stuf ...
In my youth, I helped publish a humor magazine. When our first issue came out, all the writers, editors and artists involved paced the streets of Boston, thrusting copies out toward uninterested commu ...
Most everyone has been part of a fundraising event. Whether you purchased tickets at the “request” of your boss or an important client, were strong-armed into volunteering by your spouse o ...
A foreclosed property on Tiffany Drive. Breakfast at the Hilton. A first-time home buyer named “Tiffany.” What could these disparate things possibly have in common? Thereby han ...
Pender County To Get Another Distribution Firm
Christina Haley O'Neal
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Dec 13, 2018
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Why This House Coming To Marsdon Avenue Is Unique
Cece Nunn
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Dec 14, 2018
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Info Junkie: Chandler Hatch
Staff Reports
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Dec 14, 2018
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Recruiters Talk Challenges In Hiring And Retaining Tech Talent
Johanna Cano
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Dec 12, 2018
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Supplying This Year's Oyster Season
Jessica Maurer
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Dec 14, 2018
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2018 sailed smoothly for much of the Wilmington economy for a while, with home sales rising and the addition of infrastructure at the port a...
2018 Year in Review: Vertex Railcar Corp.’s four-year journey in Wilmington appeared to be over as news hit of its pending closure by the ra...
2018 Year in Review: The year saw significant investments in transportation projects around the area, including at the port, airport and maj...
The 2018 WilmingtonBiz: Book on Business is an annual publication showcasing the Wilmington region as a center of business.
