IAN JOYCE was one of ten non-profit leaders to take the Knight Theater stage this week for SEED20 OnStage, from Social Venture Partners. The event resembles the TV show Shark Tank, in which business owners give quick pitches to garner…
Pat McCrory's HB2 executive order Tuesday seems at first like an olive branch. It's not—and its primary target is Roy Cooper.
A roundup of our coverage of the controversial law
In a post Monday, I overstated the kinds of employment discrimination claims in state courts that a provision of House Bill 2 prohibits.
A FEW HOURS before my first interview for this job, I ate a turkey sandwich at Common Market with one of the two people I knew in Charlotte, former Charlotte magazine back-page columnist Jeremy Markovich. I’d worked with Jeremy for…
The latest in the #DiscussCLT series: growth by design. We can choose how Charlotte looks. What choices do we make, and how do we start?
Republican reactions to PayPal's withdrawal from Charlotte over House Bill 2 rolled in all day. They might as well have come from schoolchildren.
PayPal's cancellation of its plans to open a 400-job operations center in Charlotte may be just the beginning of an economic tsunami for North Carolina.
Buried toward the end of the new state LGBT law is a murky provision that bars wrongful-termination claims in North Carolina courts—and nullifies 30 years of legal precedent.
Many of us like the idea of parking our cars in favor of bikes. But can we do it? Some people already have. And plans are in the works to entice more of us to join them
A new website aims to alleviate poverty and connect people by telling stories
U.S. Transportation Secretary and former Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx was in town Tuesday to speak about the links between road projects and communities—and took time to comment on HB2.
The city keeps adding new public transit, but CATS buses remain vital to getting Charlotteans where they need to go. Just ask someone who rides them every day
City officials have big plans to expand the light rail and streetcar lines, but little money to do it. Soon, you’ll be able to ride the light rail to UNC Charlotte and take a streetcar to Johnson C. Smith University, but beyond that, plans are murky. Here’s what you need to know about the future of public transit in Charlotte
The ACLU and gay rights advocates prepare to sue North Carolina on constitutional grounds over the new anti-LGBT law.
On Wednesday, the N.C. legislature passed the nation's most LGBT-hostile law. The consequences are piling up.
A lesson from Oprah, a dose of humility, and other tips on entrepreneurship
Langston Wertz Jr. has covered high school sports in Charlotte for 27 years. Now he’s covering his son, a rising basketball star
For once, the legislature got a lot done in a single day.
A panel discussion merges history and the current debate over student assignment
The state party's sudden revolt against Hasan Harnett, the first black state GOP chairman, reveals the risks of digging too deeply into the grass roots.
IN DECEMBER, Plaza Midwood lost a landmark at the corner of Central Avenue and Hawthorne Lane. A long-vacant church, built in 1936, was demolished to make way for more than 300 apartments. Top: After the church was demolished, construction crews…
One North Tryon corridor community started as a rail depot in the age of cotton and is about to boom again because of the expanded light rail line. But that’s not what keeps the Wells family here
Remembering the greenhouse owner who fostered more than flowers
On Tuesday, the first election with North Carolina's new voter ID law in place, things got a little messy.
How badly has Pat McCrory hacked off Lake Norman-area Republican voters over the I-77 toll lanes project? They're thinking about voting for Democrat Roy Cooper in November.
Lawyer Nick Mackey, who employed shady tactics to nearly become Mecklenburg County sheriff in 2007, 'wins' a case in the most embarrassing way possible.
You might have run across an old campaign ad this week. Was it real or a hoax, and why are we having such trouble telling the difference anymore?
