Transit Safety Update Following Lynx Blue Line Fatality
Photo: Charlotte Area Transit System Brent Cagle, Interim CEO of the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), discussed staffing, fare enforcement, and safety challenges dur...
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Innovators for Nonprofit Impact: John Pressley on the Power of Purpose-Driven IT with Apparo (CBS4)
Apparo helped me make a real impact in my community — and it never felt like extra effort.” That’s how John Pressley, Managing Director of Clean Energy Digital Strategy &...
Deadly stabbing on Charlotte train sparks urgent safety meeting (QC News)
Transit safety will be the focus of a special meeting in Uptown Charlotte Wednesday morning. The meeting comes about a week and a half after a woman, 23-year-old Iryna Za...
How Charlotte Can Follow Helsinki’s Lead and Sustain Charlotte’s Role
Helsinki’s Blueprint for Zero Traffic Deaths Helsinki achieved a stunning milestone—no traffic-related fatalities from July 2024 to July 2025, earning it the title of the...
Letters to the Editor: Local Environment (Charlotte Observer)
With the loss of government funding and reversal of so many environmental protections, now more than ever is the time to advocate for and monetarily support our local org...
Charlotte’s Sweltering Summer: Real Heat, Real Solutions
This summer in Charlotte has been brutal—and the numbers confirm it. July brought three consecutive days over 100 °F, peaking at 102 °F on July 27. That marked the hottes...
Sustain Charlotte Joins Coalition of Leaders to Launch Yes For Meck to Support Transportation Investments
On Wednesday, Sustain Charlotte and other community and business leaders from across Charlotte-Mecklenburg came together to launch Yes For Meck, a nonpartisan education c...
SouthPark Skipper takes off. Could microtransit like this work throughout Charlotte? (Charlotte Observer)
Across SouthPark’s commercial core you may see cars wrapped in baby blue picking people up a day of shopping at the mall, their hotel at Piedmont Town Center, or lunch at...
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Inside $3M sales tax campaign already enlisting Charlotte’s big businesses (Charlotte Observer)
Mecklenburg County will be blitzed until early November with a flurry of campaign messages as community factions try to persuade voters for or against a proposal to overh...
County Commissioners Approve Putting Transportation Referendum on November’s Ballot
This week, Mecklenburg County commissioners approved putting the transportation referendum on November’s ballot. This measure would fund $20 billion in transportation pro...