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Last year, six new members under the age of forty were appointed to the Charlotte City Council. Under an older but also first-term mayor, Vi Lyles, the diverse council is far less patient, less devoted to process, more innovative, more willing to look afresh at the way the city government operates, and unafraid to challenge the old guard. The Council is also demonstrating some of their millennial generation’s defining characteristics which embrace technology and an entrepreneurial approach.
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Mayor Vi Lyles swept into office last year with a resounding win over her Republican opponent, Charlotte City Council member Kenny Smith, and a mandate for change that also transformed the makeup of the eleven-member council. Lyles is the city’s first black female mayor and is committed to addressing affordable housing, policing, employment, and other civic issues.
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The Charlotte Regional Partnership has branded itself as “Charlotte USA.” The partnership’s intent is to connect companies and their job opportunities to the workforces in towns with their own distinct economies but still within the Charlotte area. While the partnership says it successfully bid and recruited twelve economic development projects in 2017, some officials wonder if the partnership is as effective as it could be, especially in light of a high-profile failure in January.
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Moore’s Sanctuary is an African-American community in the west side of Charlotte, and its foundation has existed for 148 years. As the City of Charlotte faces a shortage in affordable and workforce housing, developers are looking to acquire property in the west side. Rickey Hall, founder of the West Side Community Land Trust, hopes to purchase land and ensure longtime west-side residents have a place to live as land values increase.
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An interview with a former Clinton and Obama administrations housing official revealed a perception balancing optimism and realism. He suggests cities can generate progress through initiatives such as infrastructure growth from a responsible management of public assets. Progress can be assured in cities, he believes, by investing in these areas: innovation, infrastructure, and inclusion. As for the growing urban-rural divide, Katz proposes it can be overcome by intermediaries between what he called the core city and rural periphery.
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What the author called “the silver tsunami” is increasingly evident in town and metros alike, from factors such as baby boomers entering retirement. Addressing elderly-specific issues is church programs focusing on topics like dementia. Helping to improve the quality of life for impoverished elders is government programs such as Centralina Area Agency on Aging, which helps with needs like transportation. Along with church and government programs there is the Meck 60+ project, a needs assessment study calibrating the number of elderly individuals and the extent of issues and needs related to aging.
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Helping the city to close its fiscal gap toward the construction of Freedom Apartments is Covenant Presbyterian Church. Its low interest loan, a form of financial assistance rarely adopted by the area’s churches, is a continuation of efforts to alleviate housing insecurity. Other endeavors enacted since Covenant’s founding in 1951 include its aid to blacks displaced by urban renewal in the 1960s to co-founding the Jeremiah Project in the 1980s.
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The Evening Muse in NoDa offers a form of talk therapy that doesn’t happen in a therapist’s office. The R U OK, CLT? series combines honest dialogue about mental illness with musical and artistic performances, with the atmosphere intended to encourage individuals with mental illness to talk about their experiences.
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Lacour applies the term wedge to the struggles the poor in Mecklenburg County face in finding adequate housing. Related to price and safety are factors such as the widening gap between the rich and poor in cities such as Pineville and Charlotte and dearth of economic mobility for minorities, particularly in Charlotte.
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North Carolina’s history with barbecue goes back four centuries, which Jim Early revealed in The Best Tar Heel Barbecue, from Manteo to Murphy. This book is based largely on his experience with varieties of barbecue offered along what he calls the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail. His experience illustrates that this dish is a key ingredient of the state’s cultural identity.
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Barbecue--see also barbeque; Barbecue--history--North Carolina, Eastern; Barbecue--history--North Carolina, Western; North Carolina Barbecue Society; Barbecue--history--Roanoke Island; Pig pickin's--barbecue--North Carolina ; Pig pickin's--race relations; Southern culture--barbecue; Western style--see also Piedmont style; Barbecue restaurants--North Carolina--Wilber's ; North Carolina Barbecue Society Historic Barbecue Trail ; Lexington--Description and travel
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Thomas Healy's new book "Soul City, Race, Equity and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia" traces Floyd McKissick's efforts to establish a specail community in rural northeaster North Carolina. Healy is a Charlotte native and law professor at Seton Hall University.
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Nearly four decades after he was first hired by the Charlotte Observer as a reporter in its Rock Hill South Carolina bureau is retiring at age 70. His son Will, age 23, dies in an auto accident in 2018.
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"Sampson Parker Jr., the only state wildlife enforcement officer in Mecklenburg County, watches a growing population on the water and in the woods to make sure it's following the rules." Parker, 32, began his position in Mecklenburg in 2017.
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"Five years after the furor of House Bill 2, the LBGTQ community--in Charlotte, in North Carolina, and across much of the nation--fights attacks on new fronts."The HB142 prohibition expired on Dec. 1, 2020. Several cities in the state have since adopted LBGTQ protections. It was Charlotte that originally fueled the fight for protections in 2016, leading to legislative reaction. At this point Mayor Pro Tem Julie Eiselt wants to assure that a future ordinance will withstand legal challenges.
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"For years, Charlotte has been one of the largest American cities that lacked a four-year medical school. The health care professionals who finally made it happen overcame a series of setbacks, false starts, and failures, and they plan to use their clean slate to create a new kind of community asset." In 2017, Charlotte's largest employer, Carolinas HealthCare System and UNC Healthcare announce a merger.
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