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“Governor Stein is deaf to the desperate pleas of Charlotte's police and residents."
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2025 @ 8:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Charlotte’s office delinquency rates is at 30%, well above the national average of around 5%.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 @ 12:18 am
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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TTX will invest $14.5 million and create 150 jobs in Mecklenburg County
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 6:42 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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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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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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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In District 6, Republican incumbent Tariq Bokhari narrowly won the race for city council.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to Charlotte Thursday to discuss the Biden administration’s affordable broadband internet access program and access to abortion.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 3:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A study by Quicken Loans on the hottest real-estate markets in the nation found that two of the top 10 were in the Tar Heel state. Raleigh came in at No. 3, and Charlotte at No. 9 in the 2022 rankings.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 2:28 pm
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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Contests against seven bowl qualifiers, a home matchup against Southeastern Conference member South Carolina and a season-opening Thursday night neutral site clash against Appalachian State are featured on East Carolina's complete 2021 football schedule
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2021 @ 6:15 pm
By: ECU Sports
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Intercontinental Capital Group Will Create a $5.8 Million Operations Hub in Charlotte
Published: Thursday, December 24th, 2020 @ 12:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today the Committee on Arrangements (COA) for the 2020 Republican National Convention announced it submitted a comprehensive health and safety plan on Monday, August 3, to North Carolina state officials.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 9:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has now happened: North Carolina's Authoritarian Governor Roy Cooper, DS, has chased away those pesky Republicans, and their National Convention, from Charlotte, North Carolina, and has personally sent tens of millions of dollars of economic development to Jacksonville, Fla.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2020 @ 7:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the Charlotte Observer reports, city and Republican leaders “are scrambling to figure out what’s next” following President Trump’s declaration that he would not accept his party’s nomination in the Queen City
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It’s not all full-blown coronavirus news–at least not in the Queen City.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The Charlotte Observer reported last week that enrollment in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District had increased by only about 200 students over the previous year
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The city of Charlotte really wants to build a streetcar line. Queen City taxpayers probably will have to dig a bit deeper to pay for it, though, as construction bids have come in over 30 percent above projections.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory is celebrating nine major economic announcements that have been made over the last two weeks, including eight projects that will create nearly 1,000 new jobs and bring more than $623 million in capital investment to the state
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2016 @ 8:18 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory joined officials from the N.C. Transportation Department and CSX Corporation today at the Port of Wilmington to announce the debut of the new Queen City Express, an intermodal rail service between the Port of Wilmington and CSX's intermodal terminal in Charlotte
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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If you live near Charlotte, you've probably heard and seen the big, gray-painted military cargo planes rumbling low overhead
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was a protest that absolutely no one in Charlotte saw coming. A dive bar in a hip neighborhood was to be replaced with an apartment building with more retail space
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina announced today that Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (Dimensional) will be locating its East Coast regional headquarters in Mecklenburg County.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 4:41 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The common complaint about economic incentives is that they amount to having the government pick winners and losers. That's certainly true. However, as recent events in Charlotte show, another problem with incentives is that government handouts can go to winners and losers.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Regulation stifles innovation, resulting in poor-quality products at higher prices for consumers. And removing long-established regulations takes a massive effort, usually driven by obvious massive benefits that an emerging new industry offers.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy's many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP* — Alabama.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that AvidXchange will expand its headquarters operations in Charlotte. The company plans to create 603 jobs in Mecklenburg County by the end of 2018 and invest more than $21.4 million.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 6:11 pm
By: Chris Downey
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House speaker Thom Tillis and his team, Gov. Pat McCrory, and scores of big names in the state's business establishment have been harping on the alleged importance of customized, special incentives to lure new business - from TV and movie productions to industry - to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Sources are telling us that emissaries from the DC Republican establishment had a sit-down with NC Tea Party activists in The Queen City Tuesday evening.
Published: Saturday, August 30th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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