July 8, 2025 Newly installed County Manager Mike Bryant won applause for two announcements this morning. One was a staff reorganization to bring together all the small housing initiatives that the county has launched piecemeal over the years, with a single person in charge to encourage ... Continue Reading →
Push begins for public support of 1-cent sales tax referendum
July 1, 2025 The public debate over whether residents should approve an additional penny on the sales tax began in earnest this morning. It will peak in the days before the likely November referendum on the question – and then go on for years to come, as happened when the first local additional ... Continue Reading →
Helping business owners thrive is Hogan’s business
June 24, 2025 No, Nate Hogan is not taller than the Wells Fargo tower. But be prepared to look up. Look up to a former finance guy, a former school board chair, with experience in "accounting ... sales, relationship management, operations and leadership." And a fellow with more than enough ... Continue Reading →
Perspective | More than clean clothes: The innovation of dignity in our schools
By Chanel Jones, EdNC.org | June 9, 2025 It started with one student. She sat quietly in class, her hoodie pulled tightly over her head, sleeves hiding her hands, and eyes looking as if she was holding back tears. Her classmates exchanged glances and whispered quietly whenever she ... Continue Reading →
An economic development incubator rising at 916 W. 5th
June 17, 2025 Today's speakers help lead a Durham-based organization that over the last 40 years has grown to create opportunity for business success and community stability in minority communities. The news, if there was some, was that this National Institute of Minority Economic Development, ... Continue Reading →
Columbia consultancy helps organizations achieve goals
June 10, 2025 Karen R. Jenkins pivoted away. from the mortgage business amid housing market collapse of 2007-8. In 2020, as Covid-19 turned Dilbertville dwellers into work-at-homers, Jenkins began workshops on how to balance work life and family life under the same roof. The R. might as well ... Continue Reading →
Graham pursues a ‘way forward’ to end America’s embedded racism
June 3, 2025 In 2015, Malcolm Graham in many ways became head of an extended family grieving over the loss of their sister and family member. Cynthia Graham Hurd and eight others were murdered during a Blble Study at Emanuel Church in Charleston, where Malcolm and his siblings grew up. More Bible ... Continue Reading →
Meck board’s DJ: Clerk’s office keeps the records spinning
May 27, 2025 Kristine Smith writes history. The history of Mecklenburg County government, one meeting at a time. The Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners, in her summary minutes of open and closed commissioner meetings, says she knows that county residents not only want to know who voted ... Continue Reading →
Sheroes supporting families in fear of ICE roundups
May 20, 2025 Fear. Fear that government agents will, in their zeal to enforce immigration law, leave lasting emotional damage to innocent children. Fear that whereabouts of undocumented loved ones will be impossible to determine for the weeks between their arrest and when their whereabouts can ... Continue Reading →
Save lives with a question, then a listen: ‘How are you doing today?’
May 13, 2025 On the occasion of Mental Health Month, practitioners from several Charlotte area groups offering assistance to individuals and families facing mental health challenges presented this morning. The focus was not really on the labyrinth of assistance programs, and certainly not on all ... Continue Reading →
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