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Toyota, PTI projects sparking manufacturing revival in Triad

Counties of the Piedmont Triad vary in vaccination rates, but theres a correlation between vaccination rates including economic, education and even politics.

Visit Winston-Salem has rolled out the latest in a long line of marketing campaigns, hoping the timing is right to appeal to tourists, conventions and sports groups that are cautiously inching forward in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tourism agency released last week "Winston-Salems Got You Covered," which blends a montage of local destination and hotel settings with a message emphasizing heightened safety measures to reassure travelers and guests. The campaign is aimed at state, reg...

After a somber and unpredictable 2020, there appears to be one certainty about 2021. As goes the COVID-19 vaccines, so goes the local, state and national economies, according to analysts, economists and business executives. "How rapidly the economy will recover assumes widespread vaccine use by mid-2021," said Michael Walden, an economics professor at N.C. State University. "Even by year’s end, we won’t be completely recovered from COVID-19."  National and state health officials sa...