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The stomach-turning, caught-on-video death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis sparked several, well defined conversations across the U.S. and...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has hit our towns, cities, state and nation, I have been quoted in recent weeks in both state and national...

Cabarrus County and City of Kannapolis recognized with N.C. Excellence in Communications Awards The City of Kannapolis and Cabarrus County Communications Departments were among 21...

Potholes don’t vote. Go to enough municipal board meetings and odds are you’ll hear someone, at least once, remind us. At the municipal level are...

Over the course of its history, the N.C. League of Municipalities’ advocacy efforts have been primarily state focused, whether that has meant advocating to...

Willis puts his youth and varied background—business owner, educator, radio host—to work to move his hometown forward Ben Willis is in the business of providing...

Cary Council Member Jennifer Robinson is the new president of the North Carolina League of Municipalities in a freshly elected League Board of Directors,...

The 2020 legislative session may have been surreal in some respects – committee meetings by Zoom, in-person meetings sometimes devoid of lobbyists and other...

Cary Councilmember Jennifer Robinson becomes new League presidents. The League is the unified voice and vision of North Carolina’s municipalities, furthering goals through collective action....

The last few months have been unquestionably the most challenging time facing local governments and locally elected officials in decades. As my term as...

But what’s harder to cope with is, for many, the fear that it’ll enter a personal circle, or the heavy knowledge that it already...

When the history is finally written, those writing it are likely to conclude that this COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects posed the greatest...

I. LANDFALL “I’ve been walking around thinking, ‘I’m in day 40-plus of a hurricane.” Pine Knoll Shores police chief Ryan Thompson drives through his beach...

In this issue, we are expanding Talk of Our Towns to include the many practical and creative ways cities and towns across North Carolina...

This article originally was published by WRAL in March 2020. Through much of the 20th century, the City of Rockingham’s economy – like those in...

It was budget time in Fuquay- Varina, and though the COVID-19 pandemic had shaken up the pace of the world, kinked revenue streams and...

Governments at all levels have a tough balancing act – expected to keep residents’ costs low while delivering all the in-demand services that keep...

There is now little question among economists—and, I expect, most people also— that the economy is in a coronavirus-induced recession. The definition of a recession...

As the COVID-19 crisis has closed schools and shut down businesses, it has also brought into sharp focus North Carolina’s digital divide—how some areas...

There can be little doubt that the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis will pose historic challenges to municipal governments across in North Carolina,...