News & Record off the mark

From Jeff Martin on the News & Record's "State Street hatchet job:"

"There’s even a successful new restaurant, The Secret Tea Room, but these businesses don’t help to forward the mistaken notion that State Street has fallen on hard times. Instead, they cite businesses with broken models and owners reaching retirement age who have either moved elsewhere or closed shop.

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"The real story in the neighborhood is one block over, where the Harris-Teeter is gone and Starbucks will shut its doors in a few days at Golden Gate Shopping Center. This is just one more recent example of shamefully inaccurate reporting by our abysmally run local daily."