Matt Dudek is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, the School of Government, and a CERC intern working with the Cape Fear Council of Governments. Last week Monday Mikki Sager and Calvin Allen from the North Carolina chapter of the Conservation Fund came to speak ab … Read more

John Killeen is a recent graduate of UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Caswell County. The economy of Caswell County has been facing a fundamental transition since the decline of the domestic tobacco market. At the same time, short-term subsidies from the Nor … Read more

Kendra Jensen is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration. She is currently working with the Kerr-Tar Council of Governments through the Carolina Economic Revitalization Corps (CERC) One does not have to travel far in Henderson, North Carolina to notice … Read more

Matt Dudek is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, the School of Government, and a CERC intern working with the Cape Fear Council of Governments. Two weeks ago I wrote about the BEST STEP cluster in Bolton, East Arcadia, and Sandyfield (https://ced.sog.unc.edu/?p=1 … Read more

The development of municipal parks and recreation departments across the United States was founded in part on the belief that well-designed programs could promote physical and social well-being through exposure to nature and the provision of opportunities for physical activity and team sports.  Goal … Read more

Will Lambe is the Director of the Community & Economic Development Program and the Community-Campus Partnership. An article in today’s News & Observer profiles David Eckel, from Clayton, NC, who recently won the Great American Think-Off, a philosophy competition held in New York Mills, Min … 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. One local official exclaims “Now, I can point to something in Yanceyville for our residents to do on the first Friday’s of every month”.  First Friday’s is the nam … Read more

Catalyzing a new strategic approach to economic development and energy security, the Land-of-Sky Regional Council has initiated a project aptly called Building the Clean Energy Economy in Western North Carolina. Funded in part by the NC Rural Center and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the … Read more

Matt Dudek is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, the School of Government, and a CERC intern working with the Cape Fear Council of Governments. Eulis “Scrap” Willis has been the Mayor of Navassa for over twenty years. Navassa is a small town of just under 2,000 p … Read more

2009 was a record year for foreclosures in North Carolina. Now it looks like 2010 is going to be worse. In the first five months of this year, North Carolina experienced 35% more foreclosure starts as compared to the same period in 2009. (2012 update: a GAO report on vacant homes and foreclosures ca … Read more