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Lovely Bones
If you have a bone to pick with Kathy Reichs, good luck catching up with her. The world-renowned forensic anthropologist and best-selling author has resided in Charlotte for the last thirty years but divides her time between here and Montreal,…
After the Crash: From the Author
To do this story, I read Sunday Money, by Jeff MacGregor; One Helluva Ride, by Liz Clarke; The Wildest Ride, by Joe Menzer; At the Altar of Speed, by Leigh Montville; The NASCAR Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom; The Subprime…
2009 Best of the Best
View the Categories: Food & Drink | Top Slices Shopping | Bridal Gurus People Nightlife Body & Soul | Beauty Boosters Family & Kids Service Home 2009 Reader Picks Interactive Maps: 2009 Winners | Reader Picks From the city's tastiest…
Red-state Refugee
Winter is finally over in Massachusetts. Never mind those ten inches of icy, crusty snow outside my door. The state's natives observe the change of seasons at the end of February, when the Red Sox play their first spring training…
What would Tommy say?
No disrespect to the O's current columnists, but the events in Charlotte over the past several months are why columnists like Tomlinson were invented. Not only does he write like the wind, he has the gift of putting everything in…
The New Real Estate Reality
"A short sale is not for someone who doesn't want to get their hands dirty," says Michelle Alejandre (with husband Jaime). They purchased the home for $21,000 below what the original sellers paid for it in 2006. Tough Market My…
Gone Blue
Yes, I’m blue. I’m as blue as I can be. I’ve been hanging out in downtown Charlotte, an increasingly blue zone. I’m not talking about the blues caused by all that trouble with the banks and the down economy. What…
The Good, the Bad, and the Blue
Architecture in downtown Charlotte faces something new: limits. For forty years, using excavators, bulldozers, and cranes, armies of workers dug holes in the ground and built the sky-scraping towers that help define this city, feeding its bumptious pride. "We’ve been…
Guilt by Association
Charlotte, which once boasted of being the nation's second-largest banking center after New York, now has a new distinction: we well could be the nation's premier loser in the financial sector meltdown.Sure, New York has the hat-trick disasters of AIG,…
Attention, Charlotte! The Nonprofits Are Now in Charge
Bob Morgan President, Charlotte Chamber On an early March day that felt like the first day of spring, Ken Thompson called to order the annual meeting of the Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC). When the crowd realized it…
Notes on the news
And did anyone really think that WSOC and Time Warner wouldn't come to an agreement? Although the Observer must have loved the dispute, because Time Warner took out huge ads to plead its case to consumers.And some truly inspired writing…
The Good, the Bad, and the Blue | Audio Slideshow
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Is daily print journalism going away?
It's not hard to imagine that neither Charlotte nor Raleigh will be able to claim a daily paper by the end of the year. Maybe three days a week, maybe four. Perhaps some sort of combined Carolinas paper (which no…
