From the editor: Inside small businesses' inspiring stories to succeed

This is the story of small business in the pandemic: The six Charlotte companies profiled here — Oak Engineering, Skipper, Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group, AC&M Group, Carrie Frye Interior Design and Renu Energy Solutions — had 285 employees before Gov. Roy Cooper’s stay-at-home order took effect on March 30. By the time the Charlotte Business Journal published the first series of profiles on April 9, that total had fallen to 111. This is also the small-business story of the pandemic —…