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BrightFarms Extends Its Indoor Farming Stronghold to the Southeast with New High-Tech Carolina Greenhouse
May 6, 2021 GMT
IRVINGTON, N.Y., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ BrightFarms, the leading grower of indoor leafy greens, is announcing the opening of its latest indoor farm in Hendersonville, NC. The 6-acre greenhouse will produce 2 million pounds of lettuce per year for the Southeast region, enough to feed millions of new consumers, doubling down on BrightFarms’ mission to make higher quality, safer produce available to people across the country.
The new greenhouse is centrally located for quick delivery to retailers across the Southeast, including North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. BrightFarms’ freshly harvested greens travel much shorter distances than lettuce grown conventionally on the West Coast, arriving at supermarkets in as little as 24 hours for fresher, tastier and m
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May 4, 2021
CONCORD, N.C. The exonerated Concord man who served 44 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit is suing the City of Concord, detectives who worked his original case, and the city’s current and former police chiefs, according to an 88-page lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges the actions of the defendants in the suit wrongfully convicted Ronnie Long and kept him in prison even though evidence showed that he was innocent.
The suit states that officials on the case decided to target Long for the crime even though he did not match the description given by the victim.
Federal Activities:
On May 3, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) interim final rule goes into effect. The rule requires debt collectors seeking to evict tenants for nonpayment of rent to provide written notice to tenants of their rights under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) order. Any comments on the rule must be submitted by May 7. For more information, click
On April 28, the CFPB issued a bulletin analyzing complaints submitted by consumers in counties nationwide. In 2019 and 2020, the CFPB received more complaints on a per-capita basis from consumers living in predominantly minority counties than from consumers in predominantly white, non-Hispanic counties. Consumers in counties with the highest percentage of minority population submitted complaints at over four times the rate compared to counties with the lowest percentage of minority population. For more information, click
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Gov. Roy Cooper s failure to acknowledge black Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, and what it means
Gov. Roy Cooper s failure to acknowledge black Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, and what it means | Monday, May 03, 2021
Rev. Mark H. Creech
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April 30, 2021
When North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper gave his State of the State speech to a joint session of the General Assembly on Monday, April 26, it was a historic evening. But what was historical about it was never highlighted by Cooper not a word in his speech.
Senate President Gov. Cooper delivered his State of the State speech tonight. An indication of how far North Carolina has come is Mark Robinson, our State s first black Lt. Governor, presiding over tonight s event. And an indication of how far the North Carolina Democratic Party has to go is the Democratic Governor s failure to recognize Lt. Gov. Robinson during his speech.