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While many of her fellow Democrats are mum, three-term Charlotte mayor Vi Lyles has issued a proclamation recognizing Jan. 22-28 as National School Choice Week in the Queen City.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 1:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat; and former Judge Bob Orr, a one-time Republican whose recent political efforts have been largely in opposition to his former party, are leading an initiative to increase trust in North Carolina’s elections infrastructure.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An assistant chief counsel to the Watergate Committee, a former Charlotte mayor, a nationally known criminal defense attorney, and the first woman to lead Wake Forest University School of Law are among the 23 lawyers inducted into the inaugural North Carolina Lawyers Hall of Fame during a luncheon
Published: Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 @ 3:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charlotte's Democratic mayoral candidate, Vi Lyles', was recently accused of using her position on city council to award high dollar contracts to the company her son works for
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2017 @ 9:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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To assess Pat McCrory's four years as governor we must begin in 2012. McCrory was a popular, moderate Charlotte Mayor, leading the Queen City during a time of explosive growth
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 12:49 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In the heat of the Charlotte riots, Roy Cooper and a campaign staffer met with Mayor Jennifer Roberts in a backdoor meeting.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: Russell Allen
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As the situation in Charlotte subsides, attention is now focused on Mayor Roberts' bumbling and bizarre performance.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: Russell Allen
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In 2015, Charlotte's Democrat City Council Originally Voted Down The Bathroom Ordinance
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 3:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Former Charlotte mayor and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx today endorsed Hillary Clinton in Iowa.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 10:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With early voting for city elections in Charlotte beginning in two days, the North Carolina Republican Party released the following statement regarding the mayor's race
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 12:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane cruised to a third term in Tuesday's municipal elections, and Charlotte Democrats voted to end the brief tenure of appointed Mayor Dan Clodfelter in favor of former four-term Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is it just me or have we come to a time when people can say anything they want with no sense of remorse of concern for others?
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina's reputation as a "clean government" state has suffered in recent years, with a host of high-profile arrests of public officials on corruption charges. The latest came March 26, when Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested on charges of taking a bribe from a federal agent...
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 11:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina voters send Thom Tillis to Washington, they could find themselves in the same boat as Charlotte voters who recently elected Patrick Cannon as their mayor.
Published: Saturday, March 29th, 2014 @ 8:02 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In fact, there was a moment in the 1990s - a fleeting moment, as it turned out - when the mayors of four of North Carolina's five largest cities were Republicans. Pat McCrory, the future Republican governor, was mayor of Charlotte. Tom Fetzer, the future chairman of the state GOP, was mayor...
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Big Barry has nominated two guys -- who happen to be liberal black Democrats, like himself -- from North Carolina for important jobs in Washington.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Charlotte Mayor Redd Foxx is movin' on up -- just like The Jeffersons and The Clampetts.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Charlotte area is riding high in our fair state capital these days. The governor is a former mayor of The Queen City.
Published: Sunday, February 17th, 2013 @ 1:39 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Charlotte is getting a lot of attention lately. It hosted Barack Obama and the Democrat National Convention in 2012. Its former mayor was just sworn in as governor. On January 25, The Queen City will be hosting the winter meeting of The Republican National Committee.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2013 @ 11:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory became North Carolina's third Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first since the 19th century to work with a General Assembly controlled by his own party, as the GOP built on its electoral momentum from 2010.
Published: Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 @ 2:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I don't find the structure of North Carolina's tax code to be at all surprising. I find it confusing, destructive, unfair, and absurd, as do most folks who have ever studied it. But no one should ever be surprised that tax systems are screwy.
Published: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The astonishing transformation of people’s religious beliefs in the United States has happened so suddenly that most of us are in a state of shock.
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2012 @ 8:18 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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Over the past decade, the concept pitched by urban studies guru Richard Florida of the "creative class" has driven a lot of economic development decisions by cities across the country and around the world.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 8:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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