includes BLM rioter for Commissioner of Labor
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 @ 11:30 am
By: John Steed
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Republicans Bokhari and Driggs retain seats on city council.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 12:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Candidates, former candidates, and grassroots activists converged on the Hal Marshall Annex building in Uptown Charlotte during the first day of in-person early voting in Mecklenburg County’s municipal elections on October 19.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 9:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Over recent months, shopping malls in the Charlotte area have seen several incidents of criminal activity, which is part of a larger wave of offenses committed at other malls in large urban areas throughout the U.S.
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2024 @ 11:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A $2.5-billion-dollar bond referendum is slated to be placed on the November ballot this year, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) looks for support to fund 30 different projects in the school district.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, in one of her final acts as a state Appeals Court judge, wrote a unanimous opinion favoring WBTV in a public records dispute with the city of Charlotte.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 11:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte has joined a list of major US cities who recently placed a formal bid to designate the Queen City as a nationally recognized regional tech hub.
Published: Monday, December 4th, 2023 @ 3:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“We have a responsibility to our party, our members, and donors to ensure that our energy, efforts, and financial resources are being used to support the candidates with the best chance of winning,” said David Merrill.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 12:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) was recently saddled with allegations of misrepresentation and error over a newly proposed silver line transit route.
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 @ 2:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte City Council member Braxton Winston has thrown his hat in the ring in the 2024 race as a Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor.
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2023 @ 7:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper announced nominations to boards and commissions today.
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 11:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Democrats seem to be embracing violent Marxist organization
Published: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 9:39 am
By: John Steed
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments and nominations to boards and commissions.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 5:22 am
By: Governor's Office
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A media coalition is backing WBTV's bid at the N.C. Court of Appeals to secure surveys filled out by Charlotte City Council members in 2020.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 11:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Federal, state and local officials from North Carolina today offered praise and admiration for Rep. Tricia Cotham's decision to join the House Republican Caucus.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 2:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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At a Charlotte City Council meeting held on Feb. 27, an unusual turn of events occurred, as a routine measure to approve an ammunition purchase for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) nearly did not pass.
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 4:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) has voted to authorize the NCDOT to conduct a study which seeks to improve traffic congestion along the I-77 corridor.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has denied Charlotte's request to give more precedential value to a recent decision in a rezoning dispute.
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte has asked the N.C. Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision not to publish a recent ruling in a rezoning fight.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 12:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At the July 11 Charlotte City Council meeting, a long list of city residents and those representing various interest groups participated in the public forum on the second draft of the proposed Universal Development Ordinance (UDO).
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 10:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A slate of Republicans, including a group of young, first-time candidates, are hoping to turn the tide of Charlotte City Council with a red wave of their own this July.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 10:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The city of Charlotte is set to approve an ordinance aimed at barring businesses and employers from discriminating against people based on transgender identity and other “protected classes.”
Published: Thursday, August 12th, 2021 @ 8:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Experts say North Carolina will be on the vanguard of emerging technologies in the insurance and financial products sector if a bill that has passed both chambers of the General Assembly becomes law.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 5:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 @ 11:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper announced new appointments and nominations to state boards and commissions today.
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 6:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Over the last 3 weeks, several members of the Charlotte City Council and community have launched personal attacks of ethics violations
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 1:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Charlotte’s Arts & Science Council went to the people of Mecklenburg County last fall to get a quarter-cent sales tax increase.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2020 @ 8:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald Trump flummoxed officials in Charlotte while taking a partisan swipe at Gov. Roy Cooper by suggesting the Republican National Convention may skip past North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, May 31st, 2020 @ 8:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Twelve years ago, the General Assembly gave counties the option to ask residents if they wanted more government spending. The county commissioners’ response this year in Mecklenburg? Spend an extra $50 million on the arts and parks.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2019 @ 7:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced new appointments to fourteen North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 1:39 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Wednesday, January 9, 2019 one-day session featured the swearing in of all legislators who had not already taken their oaths in local ceremonies.
Published: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 @ 9:27 pm
By: S. Henri McClees
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Governor Roy Cooper today signed Executive Order 79 to establish the North Carolina Complete Count Commission and named members to the Commission to help achieve the most accurate and complete count of North Carolina's residents in the upcoming decennial census in 2020
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 11:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte will gain international attention, but isn't likely to provide a major economic boost to the city
Published: Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 @ 7:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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