Enlarge The SBA's Marie Johns (Photo: Charlotte Business Journal)

Posted: November 23rd, 2011 Lee Howard

Stories worth sharing this week:

• Marie Johns, deputy director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, made a whistle stop in the Queen City this past week. She spoke at Johnson C. Smith University hoping to inspire tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. Johns has been touring the country encouraging young people to start their own businesses. 
• Jennifer Roberts, chair of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, announced last week that she won’t seek re-election next year. But Roberts, a Democrat who first joined the board in 2004, may still have a future in politics. She said she has been in talks with state and national leaders about “other positions.”
• More repercussions from the ongoing CIAA hubbub: The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s Ereka Crawford-Brim, who was paid $115,000 in bonus money earmarked to her by the CIAA basketball tourney, resigned this past week. 
• Bad news on the labor front. The North Carolina Justice Center recently crunched numbers compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and found that almost 18% of North Carolinians are looking for full-time work. 
• Harding University High School is under siege. The school’s population doubled this past year with the closing of Waddell High. The student body now stands at 1,800. The number of violent acts, what the school district calls “incidents,” has jumped more than tenfold to 42 from four last year. 

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