The Tea: Unemployment payments lag

☕️ The coffee shop Lucky Tree will open a second Raleigh location — this time in downtown's Moore Square. (Triangle Business Journal 🔒)

North Carolina Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association executive director Tim Kent passed away last weekend. (Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America)

• Kent has been a fixture of North Carolina politics, beginning back when he was a reporter at WRAL, where he covered the 1984 U.S. Senate race between the late Jesse Helms and former Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt. His service is today in Pinehurst.

🥩 The Angus Barn's beloved 96-year-old greeter played basketball at UNC-Chapel Hill on a full-ride scholarship. (News & Observer 🔒)

💰 North Carolina Division of Employment Security is still behind on unemployment payments, the state auditor found. (WRAL)