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Explore new data
   June 6, 2013

Check out data on maternity, mortality, foster care, child abuse and child health care coverage. Explore these data with our interactive graphing tools. (Graphic: Charlotte Regional Indicators) Read more


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A game of homes (and jobs, farms and more)
   June 5, 2013
Mary Newsom
How can the Charlotte region prepare for the thousands of new jobs and houses expected to come here? RealityCheck2050, part of the CONNECT process, let regional participants develop their own versions of the future. (Photo: Melissa Currie) Read more


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The mystery of trail trees
   June 5, 2013
Ruth Ann Grissom
Years ago, a friend in Uwharrie showed me a crooked tree on his family’s property. Its trunk was bent at two right angles, creating a horizontal span about 4 feet off the ground. Some believe these trees are a legacy of the American Indian presence in our region. (Photo: John Mabry) Read more


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Prevent pollution? There’s an app for that
   June 3, 2013

Mecklenburg County residents can add one more item to the growing list of uses for their smartphones: reporting water pollution. (Photo: Nancy Pierce) Read more


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The landscape of advanced classes in CMS
   May 30, 2013

Ayana Allen, Abiola Farinde, Chance Lewis
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools strives to ensure that all students are ready for careers or college. But at CMS, like other urban districts, students at schools in disadvantaged areas are likely to be inadequately prepared for college success. (Photo: Nancy Pierce) Read more


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Goodwill online resources
   May 23, 2013

There are two new resources on Goodwill's Regional Indicators partner page – an interactive map of Goodwill locations and the updated Youth Services Catalog. Explore these resources in an interactive map. (Graphic: UNC Charlotte Urban Institute) Read more


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Veterans in Mecklenburg: An infographic
   May 23, 2013

Mecklenburg County is home to one of the largest veteran communities in North Carolina. As one of the Regional Indicators Partners, Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont collaborates with the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute to monitor trends among veterans (and other populations Goodwill serves). This article features an infographic that provides a snapshot of the 55... Read more


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Imagining a trail of parks through South End
   May 22, 2013
Mary Newsom
Fact: A workmanlike sidewalk runs beside South End’s light rail tracks. Fact: South End today has no park. Add those facts. Thus was born the idea for a 3.3-mile Rail Trail featuring a series of attractive nodes along today’s Lynx rail tracks. Take a look at images showing its potential. (Rendering courtesy of Charlotte Center City Partners) Read more


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New plant in the Piedmont – the Tall Marshallia
   May 22, 2013
Ruth Ann Grissom
The discovery of a new species conjures images of explorers in pith helmets hacking through remote regions of the Amazon and stumbling across something outlandish. The reality is generally much less dramatic. (Photo: David Blevins) Read more


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N.C. tax reforms: 1921, 1933 and maybe 2013
   May 16, 2013

Benjamin Russo
As N.C. legislators debate whether or how to reform the state’s tax system, it’s worth taking a look at the principles that should underlie any sound taxation system – and at how two key proposals for change stack up against those principles. (Photo: John Chesser) Read more