The Naked City Blog

Cities are amazing, and amazingly complicated. I explore what it all means.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Did rogue columnist hit, or miss, in Charlotte critique?

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Reading the happy Tweets out of Charlotte this afternoon, as the Chiquita headquarters announcement came through , I stumbled on a link from...

What's up with the federal courthouse?

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The majestic federal courthouse on West Trade Street, while stilled used by the federal courts, is owned by the City of Charlotte now. Monda...
Monday, November 28, 2011

City panel endorses bike-share demo program for DNC

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A Charlotte City Council committee today is expected to recommend whether the city should start work on launching a bike-sharing program for...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Charlotte area snags $5 million regional grant

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Rebecca Yarbrough of Centralina COG, with check It was just a bit of horseplay at Monday morning's announcement that the 14-county Ch...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Why cities need Republicans

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When a Wake County district school board election is being hailed nationally as evidence that the whole Tea Party movement is defunct, as in...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Voters oust GOP, raise their own taxes

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Durham County voters OK'd a transit tax Tuesday Tuesday's municipal elections in Charlotte and across the state offered some unex...
Friday, November 4, 2011

The problem of pedestrian crossings

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After a customer at an Elizabeth neighborhood bar was killed while crossing Seventh Street, the bar's owner is trying to begin a campai...
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