CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- A new Public Policy Polling survey of Mecklenburg County voters finds that Commission Chair Pat Cotham is quite popular with voters in the county, and that they support the board's decision to end County Manager Harry Jones' employment last week.

The PPP Poll was released on Thursday and interviewed the respondents on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Key findings from the poll include:

-46% percent of voters in the county approve of the job Cotham is doing to just 26 percent who disapprove. Cotham is drawing support across party lines for her leadership. Democrats approve of her by a 50/23 margin, independents do so by a 43/29 spread, and Republicans do 42/28. Cotham has solid personal favorability numbers as well at 42/25.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- When a community is rocked by recession - and as a bank town, we certainly were - recovery feels tedious.

But over the past few years, the jobs have been trickling back to Charlotte.

And now Forbes Magazine is patting us on the back for it, naming us number 8 on its list of Best Cities for Jobs.

A bout of hiring happening now is making Charlotte more diverse than it's ever been.

Insurance giant Metlife says it will add 1300 jobs to the marketplace.

Chamber of Commerce folks have been recruiting in China - the effort is working.

The largest IT firm in China - Pactera - just said it will hire 200 in Charlotte.

Since 2009, virtually every business sector here has been on the rebound.
And the evidence is finally surfacing.

At a job fair earlier this month, hundreds of jobs up were up for grabs at companies like Time Warner Cable, GE, and Verizon.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx is set to take questions during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Transportation position next Wednesday, May 22nd.

Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, head of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon.

The full committee hearing is slated to start at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

The list of senators slated to question Foxx include South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. No North Carolina senators are on the list.

Foxx has meetings scheduled with several members of the committee ahead of the hearings this week in Washington.

President Obama nominated Foxx to head the DOT last month.