Honoring the Past, Building a Future
This is 'Clapp Your Hands' kind of blog. This week, the bumper sticker I imagine, would read, Save our homeless families and children, United Community Ministries. Not polished, not clever, but direct. In the wake of the recent audit, as Rocky Mount looks at budgets and reductions, one consequence is significant. Nearly three hundred thousand … Continue reading Saluting The Work Of United Community Ministries
Following the state audit, in meeting rooms, at the kitchen table, and across social media, Rocky Mount has turned to questions of leadership and oversight. I'm interested in how leaders are formed before they ever step into responsibility, what expectations shape them, what habits of mind they bring when decisions begin to matter, and what … Continue reading The Making of a Leader, Then and Now
We all seem to be in agreement that expecting the Council to now solve the problems they themselves have created feels unrealistic. ‘Off with their heads,’ as the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland would say, is not a realistic option either.” So what are we to do. There are, in truth, only a … Continue reading What Can Actually Be Done Now About Rocky Mount’s City Council, NC
In my last blog, The Narrowing of Leadership, I wrote about how leadership can become confined within a single way of seeing, how a frame, once set, begins to limit what is noticed and what is allowed to be questioned. I suggest that Rocky Mount's City Council shows evidence of this tendency, and this needs … Continue reading Continuing the Discussion of Leadership: The Little Dutch Boy on the City Council
What has unfolded in Rocky Mount over these past weeks has been a civic burden for everyone. The audit’s language, a lack of leadership, a lack of oversight, has stirred more than concern. It has stirred a kind of impatience. You can feel it in the conversations, and certainly across social media, where the question has … Continue reading Rocky Mount, NC: The Narrowing Lens of Leadership
Before commenting on the Council meeting I need to tell you a bit about my mother-in-law for this to make sense. She was a Jackson, Mississippi girl, an Ole Miss graduate, belonging to the Chi Omega sorority. As she grew older, her southern accent became more pronounced. Put these things together and you know a … Continue reading Monday’s City Council Meeting – 3-23-26
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