Heard a news story of a couple considering a divorce because their combined married income disqualifies them health care subsidies. If the admin really wants more babies, shouldn’t they make health care more affordable whether you are married or not?
My holiday is now shifting from festivities and family time to getting shit done. Cleaning, organizing, returning things.
I amazed that the Carolina theater has been brought back to life. When i saw it over 20 years, it was all crumbling plaster and moldy walls. There wasn’t much to save. But Foundation for the Carolinas had the vision and funds to recreate it. North tryon will be buzzing with it & the new library.
news coverage of the Sycamore Brewery situation overlooks a key piece of context. For the past 6 months plus with coverage of the Epstein files, we have been focused on older men having sex, sexually assaulting, molesting young women and girls. What Justin Brigham allegedly did hits much harder
Wow, how times have changed— no Republicans running in District 5 or District 6 in South Charlotte. I am surprised that Republicans would give up on this part of the county.
Hoping that another local brewery will take over the taproom/beer garden being developed at Cotswold shopping center. Which one would you like to see? NoDa? Pilot? Town? Which ones are ready for a another location and aren’t already in SouthPark?
If part of the purpose for this administration to blow up boats in the Caribbean is regime change in Venezuela, then what is the purpose of blowing up boats and killing people in the pacific? Is it just to stop the flow of drugs?
The photos are strikingly unflattering
So sorry. This must be maddening
I am very angry and sad about all the suffering this will cause. I don’t know what a Hep B costs but it has to be cheaper than treating Hep B as these babies grow up.
Went to a new public library today to work on a side project and it was rather distracting between chatty college students and the librarian and security guard waking up the homeless guy.
Bravo!
So true. My grandmother loved going to the K&W.
Nativists love to talk about the costs of immigrants, but each ICE agent is making $213,000 in total compensation to destroy our rights, freedoms, families, friendships, neighborhoods, and economies. Worse than a "welfare queen." It'd be better to pay them to stay home.
Wow that is alot of energy and attention. Just imagine what that guy could do if he used it postively.
Visited Big Pete the troll of the River District
I am a neglectful gardener. I am pleased as punch that these mums continue to survive and thrive.
“To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.” Florence Kelley, National Consumer League.
Outside of voting, how we spend our dollars is our greatest power.
I am trying to use that power responsibly. No Target, no Amazon, no Home Depot, More local
But what Brown needed was a shepherd, someone to guide him to treatment, to help him figure out how to take his meds, to give him the stability perhaps through housing. We expect family members to do this but that’s a big ask. Who would the police send him to other than behavioral health?
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We in the city of Charlotte clearly don’t have an effective way to help a person like this. The main tool of the police is to lock people up. Calling 911 is a reasonable response if your problem isn’t solved.
The hospital gave a diagnosis.
Traffic seems even lighter today on the Border Patrol’s 6th day in Charlotte.
Another beautiful day in the Hornet’s Nest of Rebellion to be welcoming our neighbors
I just read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I had requested it from the library weeks ago. I didn’t expect a book about the French Resistance to be so unfortunately timely. I am processing when do we know when to act, how to resist and survive and what is my role.
From today’s reading in church, second cornithians, chapter 4 — persecuted but not forsaken.
May immigrants and people of color in Charlotte feel that and take heart.
The good cooperation between social justice groups from organizing protests is now helping with training and mobilization. They have updated trainings based on Chicago. But it’s a different landscape — less dense, more cars. I am not sure whistles will be that helpful. 81 arrests yesterday.
I think Charlotte needs to find its equivalent of the whistles used in Chicago and Portland. We are a much car oriented, less dense city. What should we use to alert each other about border patrol and ICE?
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Hope the People’s Market finds the staff it needs quickly. It was busy when I had lunch there the other week. It’s a go to spot for breakfast before church or to do some work after work.
