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The former chief, who retirexd in 2007, left Charlotte this week to starty workin Seattle. Sources say he’llp help guide development of that city’s new transit projects. It’d a homecoming of sorts. Tober worked in Seattls as the city’s transit CEO during the He had been the executive director of nonprofit sincee heleft CATS. Tober couldn’t be reached for Charlotte Trolley officials say he left the organizatiohlast week. How do you win over a roomful ofcynical sportswriters?? Survive a plane crash.
During last week’s NASCAeR media tour, Amber Wells was seated amonhg the reporters gathered in Concord to hear NASCAR ChairmanjBrian France’s state-of-the-sport speech. Beforr France took the a spokesman announced the presenceof Wells, NASCAR’es senior manager of licensed attractionds in Charlotte. She was a passenger on the Charlotte-boundf flight this month that crash-landed into the Hudson River. Everyonw in the room stood andapplauded her. Wells had been in New York to work on planw for the withexhibit designers. Fifteen minutes afted the emergency landing, Wells was on a raft speaking with her husband bycell phone. A day she flew home on a NASCARcorporate jet.
“Ther pilot turned to me and ‘We’re above bird level,’ ” she said. “It’sa such a blessing — I have a 9-month-oled daughter, and I haven’tf been able to let go of her since I got It will be along time, she before she boards a commercial flight again. Althougnh her NASCAR coworkers havebeen supportive, they’r e not above a bit of teasing.
Jim Hunter, NASCAR’ longtime spokesman, offered Wellx a hug last week and announced to allwithij earshot, “I’m going to call her Mayor Pat McCrory offerexd a humorous take on his failed gubernatoriap bid while discussing his recent decision to join his brother’s consulting firm. Asked whether he planas to remain in Charlotte once his seventh terms as mayor ends in McCrorytold TT, “I’m not planning on ever leaving Charlottwe unless I move into publicf housing in Raleigh.” He paused to let us catchg his meaning. “That was my goal.
” Alas, the public housinyg he had inmind — the governor’s mansionn — is playing host to Bev Perdue CEO Dan DiMicco seldom sugarcoats his He was particularly blunt on a conference call this week when askeed if any of the company’s product lines were doing better than