The implied threat Monday from Charlotte City Council members, to withdraw support for the proposed Monroe Bypass, is more fallout from an increasingly fractious local political battle over control of Charlotte’s airport.  And now, that battle might be putting at risk some long-nurtured regional cooperation. Civic leaders in the

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The new Quality of Life Dashboard is designed to assess the health of neighborhoods in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. For more information For background about the Quality of Life project: click here. How the new NPAs were developed: Click here. As part of a major revision and expansion of the project this year, the

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Defining environmental art is nearly as difficult as defining art itself.  Each of us knows art when we see it, but that means it’s something different to each viewer. Tacking “environmental” onto “art” makes it even messier. From our earliest human settlements, people have chosen to interact with the earth

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The new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Quality of Life Dashboard gives information on a variety of neighborhood conditions, providing some of the most extensive neighborhood-level information available in the United States. The report is different this year in several ways: it covers a larger area, has many more data items and all the previous neighborhood

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