Jeff Hughes is Director of the School of Government’s Environmental Finance Center and a School of Government Faculty Member It’s not often that a local governmental finance tool gets in the middle of a heated national environmental policy debate, but that’s exactly what has happened in recent month … Read more

Fredrick Davis is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning. He is currently working with North Carolina’s Northeast Commission in Edenton as part of the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps program. This summer, much work and emphasis have been pl … Read more

Ben Houck is a graduate of the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP Intern working in Lenoir County. I confess this is really my third attempt at this, but the lesson remains the same: occupations are complex. A Medical Technologist is not a Medical Technician, I now understand. An … Read more

Suzanne Julian is UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is currently working with the STEP leadership team in Pamlico County as part of the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps program. A proposed law that affects water and wastewater infrastruct … Read more

Andrew Guinn is a graduate student in UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Caswell and Lenoir Counties. CCP interns recently attended a best practices meeting for North Carolina educators who provide services for out-of-school youth (OSY) in the state.  The OSY … Read more

Tyler Mulligan is a School of Government faculty member.  Following the 2010 session of the North Carolina General Assembly, local governments will see an essentially unchanged statutory landscape for community and economic development. Some of the highlights are discussed below. What’s the Same Nor … Read more

Salli Benedict is the HOPE Projects Director at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.  Why is there a direct relationship between poverty and most health problems, including overweight and obesity?  Have you noticed that the poorest rural counties in North Carolina also have th … Read more

Leah Elliott is a rising junior in UNC’s undergraduate departments of Political Science and Public Policy and a CCP intern working in Caswell and Lenoir Counties. Friday, July 2nd marked the third successful month for the First Fridays program in Yanceyville, North Carolina. An idea conceived months … Read more

Peter Balvanz is a recent graduate from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC Gilling’s School of Global Public Health. From February through May students from the School of Public Health Jeff Quinn, Leilani Ogan, and Peter Balvanz partnered with youth from Caswell County … Read more

Melvin McDermott III is a graduate student in UNC’s  Master of Public Administration program and a CCP intern working in Caswell County. Yanceyville Town Staff recently renovated an old industrial building to house all the operations of the town.  CCP Interns showed up at the new building in late Ma … Read more