Lisa Worf
Enterprise ReporterLisa Worf traded the Midwest for Charlotte in 2006 to take a job at WFAE. She worked with public TV in Detroit and taught English in Austria before making her way to radio. Lisa graduated from University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in English.
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The next leader of Foundation for the Carolinas knows Charlotte and the organization well: After searching for nearly two years, the community foundation’s board has named Cathy Bessant as its next president and CEO.
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The city of Charlotte plans to open physical hubs in all six of the city’s designated Corridors of Opportunity to connect small businesses and entrepreneurs with resources. These hubs would bring those partnerships directly into historically overlooked and underinvested communities and be run by groups located there.
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Journalist Steve Crump, who covered the Charlotte region and racked up accolades over nearly forty years for WBTV, has died from complications of colon cancer.
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Project Scientist started in 2011 in the Charlotte house of founder Sandy Marshall, who hosted math and science summer programs for girls. The nonprofit provides after-school programs and summer camps built around science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and now directly serves about 5,000 girls in North Carolina, California, Minnesota and Texas. Project Scientist even has clubs in Mexico. Meet its new CEO, Patrice Johnson.
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One of Charlotte’s oldest cemeteries sits in North End, among industrial buildings and neighborhoods that have grown up around it over the past century. Now, the Hebrew Cemetery wants to expand into a city-owned plot next door, which Charlotte has set aside to redevelop as part of its Corridors of Opportunity initiative. The cemetery’s plan is to provide more space to the living and the dead — but some community members are wary.
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There’s an effort in the North Carolina General Assembly to change the way Gastonia’s city council seats are elected. Rep. Donnie Loftis said the council’s Republicans asked for the change, but local officials say that’s not true.
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Charlotte still has its rural corners. Last week’s 900-pound bull that escaped from a farm was a reminder of that. But what to make of the three Asian water buffaloes on the loose in northeast Charlotte earlier this summer? That answer touches on a cultural misunderstanding, a changing city, and a set of surprised, but supportive neighbors from various homelands.
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The Mecklenburg County jail will no longer hold any federal detainees. Nearly 200 inmates held on federal charges are being transferred to different facilities. Most of them were transferred Thursday. An email sent to defense attorneys says many are headed to a detention center in Georgia.
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As Charlotte bakes under heatwaves this summer, the city's trees are helping to take the edge off by shading homes, streets and parks. But the benefits of these natural air-conditioners are spread unevenly throughout the city. Shade is hardest to find in some of Charlotte’s low-income neighborhoods. And it’s often a challenge for residents to maintain the trees they do have.
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The American flag must be flown every day in a new North Carolina subdivision that's being built for people over 55. But can you require patriotism?