Openers.

• Author: Kinney, David

Business North Carolina has always prided itself on taking a broad view of what constitutes business and, therefore, what it is we should be covering. Like most folks, we like to get out of the office--ours and others--and when we do, we often wind up stretching the boundaries of traditional business journalism. Wandering far afield from the white-collar workaday world, our writers have brought back stories that are among the most popular and acclaimed we've published. Marx thought all history could be analyzed from the perspective of economics. About that we agree with the old troublemaker: Few things happen anywhere you won't find a business story lurking. All you have to do, as Deep Throat advised, is follow the money.

Now, with this first issue of BNC etc., we're stretching...