COVID-19
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CMS Rolls Out Reopening Plan for In-Person Learning
Local parents now have a timeline for when Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) students will return to in-person learning after local and state leaders announced plans earlier this week. On Wednesday, the CMS Board of Education voted to roll out a phased plan that allows students to return to in-person learning by…
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Staff and Students Speak Out Against UNC Charlotte Reopening Plan
On the evening of Aug. 17, leadership at UNC Charlotte sent out an email notice to all students addressing plans for reopening in light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak at UNC Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), which made national headlines after 135 new cases of the coronavirus cropped up on campus during…
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Nooze Hounds: Charlotte Bar Owners Left Behind in a Pandemic
In Episode 24 of our Nooze Hounds podcast, we talked to Zach Pulliam of Abari Game Bar and Jackie DeLoach of Hattie’s Tap & Tavern about the struggles of being bar owners in Charlotte during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Charlotte bar owners have struggled — Pulliam has announced the closing…
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Fitness Studios in Charlotte Adapt to Phase 2 with No Other Options
With continued extensions to Phase 2 of North Carolina’s reopening plan, gyms and fitness studios in Charlotte have taken different approaches to save their businesses, from moving classes outside in the summer heat to taking advantages of loopholes that allow people to work out inside with permission from their doctor.…
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Organizers Shame Thom Tillis For Lack of Movement on COVID-19 Relief
Community organizers and union leaders staged a demonstration on Tuesday outside Senator Thom Tillis’ Charlotte office as part of a nationwide effort to shame lawmakers for dragging their feet on the most recent COVID-19 relief package, telling senators around the United States, “Mitch better have my money.” Representatives from Action…
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5 Things To Know: City Workers Protest Unsafe COVID-19 Conditions
City Workers Protest Unsafe Work Conditions Due to COVID-19 Charlotte Water employees and other city workers will join a Black Lives Matter march this evening in protest of unsafe working conditions during COVID-19, citing several confirmed cases of the virus among the department including an apparent “major outbreak” that shut…
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Child Immunization Rates Dip During COVID-19 Pandemic
When Kim Wilson got pregnant three years ago, she joined an online community group for expectant and new moms. Members shared advice and offered support with few disagreements, except when the discussion turned to child immunization. Wilson recalls some moms being dead set against vaccinating their children, having bought into…
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County Offers Assistance for Small Businesses with New Toolkit
Mecklenburg County’s Business Leaders Roundtable announced the launch of an industry-specific toolkit on Wednesday that offers assistance for small-business owners looking to safely reopen their business during Phase 2 of Gov. Cooper’s plan to reopen the state. Following up on the county’s first toolkit for local small-business owners, released earlier…
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Charlotte Needle Exchange Goes Mobile as Overdoses Spike
As COVID-19 descended upon the Charlotte area in early March and stay-at-home orders loomed, staff members with the Queen City Needle Exchange (QCNE) saw a tough road ahead for their program’s participants. The group, run by the Charlotte-based Center for Prevention Services, curbs risks for drug users by providing safe…
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Reopening Restaurants in Phase 2 of Gov. Cooper’s Plan
As we move toward reopening restaurants in a “safer-at-home” Phase 2 of Gov. Roy Cooper’s plan to reopen North Carolina, businesses will need to stay up-to-date on guidelines presented in the executive orders. The restaurant industry has been eagerly awaiting an outline of steps and procedures to ensure public safety…
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Local Business Owners Make Tough Decisions As County Reopens
If there’s one essential message that came out of the virtual May 11 meeting of the COVID-19 Business Leaders Roundtable, which calls on local business owners and leaders to build out the best way to implement Phase One of Gov. Cooper’s plan to reopen North Carolina, it’s this one: Masks…
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Fall Semester Schedule Sparks Backlash from UNC Charlotte Students
UNC Charlotte looks to be going forward with a new fall semester schedule despite backlash from its student body. On May 4, Chancellor Philip Dubois announced that the Fall 2020 semester will begin on Labor Day, Sept. 7, two weeks after the planned start date of Aug. 24. Dubois instated…
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Neighborhood Theatre Launches GoFundMe with Bills Piling Up
For Gregg McCraw, founder of Charlotte-based booking agency Maxx Music, which books shows for the Neighborhood Theatre, the journey of the genre-bending Boston-based soul/pop/jazz fusion band Lake Street Dive in Charlotte is indicative of how musical acts work their way up in a music economy. In April 2013, the little-known…
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Animal Rescues in Charlotte See New Gaps in the System
For Lori Konawalik, it was a day of success and sadness. Konawalik is the owner of Mac Tabby Cat Café, a bar and coffee shop in NoDa that doubles as an animal rescue, where patrons relax and interact with felines available for adoption. She remembers the café had just celebrated…
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Jon Dressler Discusses Changes at his Four Charlotte Restaurants
Jon Dressler, cofounder of Rare Roots Hospitality (RRH), which runs Dressler’s, Dogwood Southern Table, The Porter’s House, and Fin & Fino, could read the writing on the wall as he closed his restaurants early two days before the governor put a stay-at-home order in place. Dressler’s reasoning involved the health…
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‘College Refund 2020’ Class-Action Suit Names UNC Charlotte
A student is suing UNC Charlotte and other schools in the UNC System for failing to adequately reimburse students after transitioning to online-only classes in light of COVID-19, part of a country-wide campaign dubbed College Refund 2020. Brady Wayne Allen, a senior finance major from Winston-Salem, is party to a…
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