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Toyota, PTI projects sparking manufacturing revival in Triad

Counties of the Piedmont Triad vary in vaccination rates, but there's 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-Salem's 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, regional and national meeting planners, along with more than 450 meeting and convention clients. Meeti...

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 say they are hopeful that some vaccine version will be available to the general population during the ...