COVID-19
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Charlotte’s Arts Community Weathers Pandemic Amid Funding Struggles
For many Charlotteans, COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, went from abstraction to stark reality on March 17, when Gov. Cooper ordered the statewide closure of bars and restaurants, allowing them only to serve takeout. Before that, the Charlotte arts community saw a trickle of cancelations from touring…
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Weekly News Roundup: Stay-at-Home Goes Statewide, County Provides COVID-19 Updates
Governor Issues Statewide Stay-at-Home Order, County Provides Updates Gov. Cooper issued a statewide stay-at-home order on Friday afternoon in an attempt to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, similar to an order already implemented in Mecklenburg County earlier this week. While Mecklenburg’s order allowed for 22 sectors of “essential…
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Nooze Hounds: The Quarantine Episode with Joe Bruno
You keep your hands off Joe Bruno, COVID-19! On episode 14 of Nooze Hounds, we Skyped in with WSOC reporter Joe Bruno, who recently went into self-quarantine out of an abundance of caution after interviewing N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell, who later tested positive for the coronavirus. Bruno has…
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Restaurant Workers Rally Amid Mass Layoffs and Community Disconnect
People who work in the service industry are accustomed to a life with less. We miss holidays, birthdays, weddings and weekends. We work in conditions that would terrify OSHA (a bar stool is a ladder, right?). Often we live alone because we can’t maintain relationships due to the hours that…
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These Thoughts Are Coming From Inside the House
This morning I laid in bed, tossing and turning as the sun slowly seeped in, fighting my hour-long battle with the snooze button because why the hell get up so early? Groggily as I sat up and wandered into the kitchen to start the coffee, my mind picked up where…
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A Look at the Life of a Resident at Risk
You’ve seen the joke many times, you may have even told it. Every day on social media for weeks now, there are multiple people posting something along the lines of, “I’ve been social distancing for years,” or “Self-quarantine is something I’m used to.” It’s good for a few likes between…
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Local Music Scene Adapts to a Quarantine
As the COVID-19 virus has shut down venues and kept most of us (the responsible ones) inside, local musicians are using their quarantine time wisely, dropping new music and setting up virtual events to benefit those who will be hit hardest in the scene. From a 24-hour stream-a-thon to a…
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Wherever We Go From Here, We Go Together
What can I say that hasn’t yet been said? Keep in mind, as I write this I just finished a last read-through of the issue that I’ve been working and re-working over and over for the last two weeks. So you’ll have to read the whole thing cover to cover,…
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Mecklenburg County Issues Stay-at-Home Order Beginning Thursday
The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners held a public policy meeting at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center this afternoon, at which Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio announced that the county will implement a countywide stay-at-home order beginning Thursday, March 26, at 8 a.m. and ending April 16. The order prohibits residents…
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Weekly News Roundup: Testing Increases, No Shelter-in-Place Order for N.C. Yet
Mecklenburg Residents Not Under Shelter-in-Place Order Yet Things could change at any time, but as of Friday night, Gov. Roy Cooper stated he would not issue a shelter-in-place order like those implemented in California and Illinois, nor would he order any additional business closures. A shelter-in-place order means the government…
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Students Evacuate UNC Charlotte with Concerns About Their Future
By 5 p.m. today, UNC Charlotte’s campus will officially be empty of students, and nobody knows when they’ll be coming back. Following Tuesday’s order that residence halls be vacated by Friday afternoon, students have been lugging their things up and down dorm-room staircases throughout the week, and come Monday, classes…
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Lack of Planning Exacerbated CMS Response to COVID-19
On Feb. 21, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) called a snow day, though outside the streets were dry and clear. Since then, as a global pandemic made itself visible in the Queen City, parents and students have spoken up with concerns of mixed messages when it comes to personal hygiene in schools…
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Opinion: What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About the Environment
The following is a letter to the editor from Hardin Minor, a First Earth Day environmental activist of 50 years. He was in the process of producing a community-wide, free, interactive family celebration of Earth Day at First Ward Park slated for April 25, 2020 which has now been postponed…
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Get Fit with Britt: The Quarantine Workout
Are you feeling hopeless, a little frightened, overwhelmed and unsure of the world surrounding you recently? All you have to do is scroll your social media feed for not even 2 minutes to get sucked into a spiral of negative thoughts. What’s happening right now globally and here at home…
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Advocates Call for More Leniency as Jail Releases Begin
As a group of community organizers gathered in front of the Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Uptown on Tuesday to call on local law enforcement officials to reduce the local jail population to help curb the spread of COVID-19, those officials were quietly scheduling dozens of inmates to be released.…
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Keep It 100: Self Reflection in the Time of the ‘Rona
Dear Shameika, I am at my wits’ end. How in the world do you find your passion? I am 38 years old and I can’t think of one thing I can see myself doing for the rest of my life. I love things but I guess I don’t have the…
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