The WNC craft economy
Permalink @ Mountain Xpress The Western North Carolina Craft industry isn’t easy to quantify. But in 2008, several area organizations worked together to produce a report — The Economic Impact of the...
View ArticleDoing good in WNC
Permalink @ Mountain Xpress “The culture around here is that everything can be improved,” says Alex Comfort, board president of the Western North Carolina chapter of the Association of Fundraising...
View ArticleArrested developments: A Buncombe County drug-arrest snapshot
Permalink @ Mountain Xpress Drug crime in Buncombe County has, in some cases, mirrored statewide trends in the past decade. Arrests for the sale or manufacture of synthetic narcotics or other dangerous...
View ArticleThe electric slide: WNC power generation declines
Permalink @ Mountain Xpress It’s less than it used to be, but most of Western North Carolina’s electricity comes from coal — nearly 60 percent. WNC also gets a higher percentage of its juice from...
View Article8 flags visualize shocking inequalities in their countries
Using colors in the same way that a pie chart measures area, a series of data flags were produced for Grande Reportagem Magazine. The combination of statistics with the country’s flag imagery is a...
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