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Now that’s how to get a raise…

What does a guy who manages a business that’s lost money every year get when he goes into salary negotiations? How about a $51,000 raise and a $51,000 bonus?!

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Downtown needs Averett Student Housing …

Travis Hackworth has got an idea on how merge two problems into one solution…

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Reviving the Belk Building

Editor’s Note: SouthsideCentral is proud to welcome Travis Hackworth as a contributor to the website. Travis is a history major (from Averett) and has a Master’s degree (from American Military University) . I’ve been very impressed with Travis’ in-depth knowledge and research of Danville’s history and I look forward to him writing more articles here […]

Happy Trails, Web Parts LLC?

If you type in “Web Parts” and see what autocorrect tries to suggest for you, you get “Wet Farts” way down the list. Well, that’s close enough of a description of the company for me.

Our #2 entry on the “Biggest Job Announcement Busts” series of articles is making a strong move to take over […]

Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #3

We’re up to the biggest two Job Busts in the area. We’ve covered a bunch of them in Part #1 and Part #2 but it’s time to finish the list and find out Who’s #1! Let’s start off with a #2 that almost made the top of the list…

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Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #2

Continuing the saga from Part #1… We don’t stop until we hit the top! Let’s take a look at #5, #4 and #3 on the list!

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Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #1

SouthsideCentral has been working on a countdown of the biggest job busts that have been announced in the Southside Region in the last few years. I know I’ve missed a lot of them, but I’ve got eight of them all snarked up ready to go. Let’s get it started with #8, #7 and #6…

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Petty. Vindictive. Jerks.

And the answer is “Three words used to describe James Snead, Coy Harville and Tim Barber”. Along with Jerry Hagerman, those three idiots fired Pittsylvania County Economic Development Director Ken Bowman for absolutely no legitimate reason at all.

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Piedmont Mall: The Next Generation?

Danville’s Piedmont Mall is going to become Danville’s Danville Mall. Let’s take a look at what this transformation will be…

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We’re planning… to kick you out!

You just bought a large mall that’s seen better times in a city with 20+% unemployment, so what do you do? That’s right… you kick out one of your anchor stores that’s been there since the beginning. Wait, what?!

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Some thoughts about Friday’s Downtowner Block Party…

Lots of people (including me at times) think that Downtown Danville is dead. It’s not, and events like tonight’s Block Party proves it. Here’s some random thoughts about it…

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Thumbs! (6/7/12 Edition)

We used to use our Thumbs! often but we haven’t lately. It’s time to send them UP! … or DOWN!.

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A Tale Of Two Malls

Danville’s Piedmont Mall & Martinsville’s Liberty Fair Mall have some things in common…

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QuickHits! (5/27/12)

Let’s get right to the main course…

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You can fight City Hall…

… with extortion.

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PhotoCentral: 2012 Halifax County Chamber of Commerce Trade Show

We’re running a bit late on this, but here’s a photo slideshow of this year’s 2012 Halifax County Chamber of Commerce Trade Show. As always, they did an excellent job in putting it all together. You can visit the Chabler’s website at http://www.halifaxchamber.net/ Enjoy the photos!

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RumorCentral: Walgreens coming to Danville?

Walgreens has stores located all around the Danville area, so it seems logical.

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Happy Trails, Lucky City!

Bad things usually happen when you piss off people in government.

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Here’s one way to destroy Danville’s good business climate…

The “Union at Swedwood” talk is starting again.

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An open letter to my HalifaxTalk friends.

The HalifaxTalk people who don’t like me and the ones who obsessively stalk me can read this too. It’s also open to people who want to know about WMDV.

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Lynchburg flushes more money down the toilet

Have you ever wanted to build your own hotel and not have to pay for it? Move to Lynchburg!

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Good news for Danville but it comes at a cost.

And that cost is paid by another city.

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Economic development announcement coming up on Tuesday

At this time, we’ve got no idea what it’s about. As soon as we get details, we’ll let you know.

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UPDATED: Happy Trails, Bronx Boy Bagels!

(Updated to add R&B story and comments)

It’s a sad day for people who love good food.

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If you’d like to get Verizon’s FiOS service…

…FORGET IT!

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