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Commissioners OK consolidating HR, IT positions

In a move to save costs, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a plan to consolidate some human resources and information technology functions with the library system. They...

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Residents fear landfill will trash property values 

Peggy Beck has seen this all before. To Beck, a property owner who lives about a half-mile from the Foxhole landfill on U.S. Route 521, the brouhaha over the possible expansion of the dump gives her...

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Amid talks about cutting CMC-Randolph funding, Medicaid debate begins 

In a move to reduce spending, Mecklenburg County is looking at cutting funding for the Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph mental health facility. Each year, the county provides roughly $16 million to...

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Mecklenburg County commissioners adopt $1.39B budget

Voting along party lines Tuesday night, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners approved a $1.39 billion budget for fiscal 2012. The budget, OK’d in a 5-4 vote, includes a lower property tax rate...

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Knights move closer to building stadium

The Charlotte Knights are closer to building a stadium in uptown Charlotte now that Mecklenburg County commissioners have agreed to keep the project moving forward. But the project will need additional...

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Charlotte Knights make pitch for financing 

Qualifying for a loan in today’s economic environment is a daunting task for many. For the Charlotte Knights, it is the next mountain to climb in order for the minor league baseball team to build a new...

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Charlotte Knights win commissioners’ support

Mecklenburg County commissioners approved a deal Tuesday night to allow the Charlotte Knights to move forward with plans for an uptown stadium on county-owned land. The deal passed in a 7-2 vote. It...

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James proposes town of Ballantyne 

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James has proposed that the area south of Highway 51 between Matthews and Pineville, most of which is known as Ballantyne, be given the option to form its own town...

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Central Piedmont in need of bond money 

Next month, the near future of Central Piedmont Community College is in the hands of Mecklenburg County voters as they’ll hit the polls to decide, among other things, if they’ll pass a bond referendum...

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Princeton, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Charlotte City Council 

CHARLOTTE – Judging from his curriculum vitae, Ed Driggs is one of the best-educated politicians in recent Charlotte history. We’ll start to find out Dec. 2 if he’s one of the smartest when it comes to...

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A man with a metaphor, or two 

At its Tuesday night meeting, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners held a public hearing on a Mountain Island Lake resident’s request that a “no wake zone” be established in the cove by his...

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Residents fear landfill will trash property values 

Peggy Beck has seen this all before. To Beck, a property owner who lives about a half-mile from the Foxhole landfill on U.S. Route 521, the brouhaha over the possible expansion of the dump gives her...

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Amid talks about cutting CMC-Randolph funding, Medicaid debate begins 

In a move to reduce spending, Mecklenburg County is looking at cutting funding for the Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph mental health facility. Each year, the county provides roughly $16 million to...

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Mecklenburg County commissioners adopt $1.39B budget

Voting along party lines Tuesday night, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners approved a $1.39 billion budget for fiscal 2012. The budget, OK’d in a 5-4 vote, includes a lower property tax rate...

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Knights move closer to building stadium

The Charlotte Knights are closer to building a stadium in uptown Charlotte now that Mecklenburg County commissioners have agreed to keep the project moving forward. But the project will need additional...

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Charlotte Knights make pitch for financing 

Qualifying for a loan in today’s economic environment is a daunting task for many. For the Charlotte Knights, it is the next mountain to climb in order for the minor league baseball team to build a new...

View Article

Charlotte Knights win commissioners’ support

Mecklenburg County commissioners approved a deal Tuesday night to allow the Charlotte Knights to move forward with plans for an uptown stadium on county-owned land. The deal passed in a 7-2 vote. It...

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James proposes town of Ballantyne 

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James has proposed that the area south of Highway 51 between Matthews and Pineville, most of which is known as Ballantyne, be given the option to form its own town...

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Central Piedmont in need of bond money 

Next month, the near future of Central Piedmont Community College is in the hands of Mecklenburg County voters as they’ll hit the polls to decide, among other things, if they’ll pass a bond referendum...

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Princeton, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Charlotte City Council 

CHARLOTTE – Judging from his curriculum vitae, Ed Driggs is one of the best-educated politicians in recent Charlotte history. We’ll start to find out Dec. 2 if he’s one of the smartest when it comes to...

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