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The response to this morning’s Twitter takeover has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, Jeff Atkinson just stopped by our new office at Area Fifteen to interview Desiree Kane about what all happened, and what happens next. Look for a mention of today’s #CLT2012 #DNC10 takeover on WBTV tonight, and on their website shortly thereafter. We’ll [...]

New 96-gallon green bins collected once every other week Which week are you? Check this handy map produced by The Observer to see if you’re in an orange or green pickup zone (or search your address on GeoPortal, then refer to the calendar above Which day are you? Check out this PDF map of zones [...]

watch this video in HD on YouTube We’re wrapping up our series on the Mecklenburg County budget with County Commissioner Jennifer Roberts. Questions indexed below for easy reference. Just last week, you and the Board of Commissioners approved the final Mecklenburg County budget for the 2011 fiscal year. How do you feel now? (0:19) How [...]

We’ll be interviewing Jennifer Roberts, Chair of the Board of County Commissioners, today at 5:30pm, about the county budget. You can follow our live-tweets of the interview with the hashtag #meckbudget. Last Tuesday, the board approved a budget of $1.35 billion for 2011. Their $71 million in cuts, is actually $9 million less than County [...]

watch this video on YouTube Why yes! The Charlotte Geeks (@cltgeeks) have produced a few PSAs to help support Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (@cmlibrary) in their time of reduced funding. Why ‘Zombies for Libraries’? Because “libraries feed brains and brains feed zombies – so zombies love libraries!” Check out this post on SaveLibraries.org for more Zombies [...]

photo: James Willamor The official word is that she passed away at 6:25 Wednesday morning, with her family by her side. Her son, Dr. Jason Burgess, began his first day filling her place on the City Council yesterday. “Former Charlotte Mayor Pro Tem Susan Burgess died Wednesday morning after a three-year battle with cancer. Burgess, [...]

image credit: The AARoads Blog “Gov. Bev Perdue made it official Thursday morning, signing a contract with Blythe Construction Inc. to finish the I-485 beltway. Perdue, standing in front of a backhoe and a dump truck at the local offices of the state transportation department, called the controversial design-build-finance plan ‘a new chapter’ in how [...]

watch this video in HD on YouTube We took questions earlier this week via the blog, Facebook and Twitter; as well as assembled some questions of our own. On Tuesday, we sat down with County Manager Harry Jones and asked the following: What do you do as County Manager? How did we get here? Why [...]

view this image on Flickr It appears this is for internal government use; read: not for home. Still cool to see traction made though. Via @minifail. “The grants and awards available in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are attractive, but competition is fierce. In late January 2010, 1,400 stimulus grant applicants received rejection letters [...]

photo credit: unnamed via Creative Loafing We’ll be interviewing Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones today, at 6:00 pm. This is the second interview in a continuing conversation with county leaders on our budget deficit, the goal being to get real questions answered, and allow both the county and its a chance to better understand the [...]

watch this video in HD on YouTube I arrived to yesterday’s unveiling ceremony just in time to hear journalist/author Cokie Roberts, and sculptor Chas Fagan, give a few words on stage. The crowd totaled around 1,200. Probably most surprising was the canon salute they fired from the lawn in front of Tate Hall across the [...]

watch this video in HD on YouTube This is the first in a series of conversations we’re having with county leaders about the current budget crisis, and specifically, on how we got to this point, and what our options are moving forward. In this episode, we’re talking with Hyong Yi, Mecklenburg County Director of Management [...]