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Council members plan to vote next Monday on whether to reverse their decision to withdraw support for the $4 billion toll lane project. Two council members who voted against the toll lanes in May — Malcolm Graham and Joi Mayo — indicated Monday that they now lean toward support.
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CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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Octane PressNASCAR star Mark Martin rose from the small-town tracks of Arkansas to the speedways of NASCAR, carving a career out of consistency and precision. Now, Martin has written about his career, his time living in Charlotte, and his passion for racing. He joins us to discuss “Never Lift.” -
Tony Mecia/The Charlotte LedgerSoutheast Charlotte has transformed into one of the region's bustling centers for business, housing and development. We explore how it got here, how the area is changing and what comes next. We’ll also look at the push to create communities where people can live, work, shop and spend time without getting in a car.
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LOCAL NEWS
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Parents at Collinswood Language Academy say they remain concerned about a vacant school building next door, months after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Mecklenburg County agreed on a plan to redevelop the site. -
José Eliezer Martinez-Andino, a young Honduran man who a federal judge determined was wrongfully deported earlier this year, will return to North Carolina next week. Martinez-Andino flew back to the U.S. in early August, but federal immigration enforcement officials detained him in Texas for several weeks. -
A spring and summer of leadership turmoil at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is bleeding into the fall. -
Houseplant workers and allies nationwide say they're subject to extreme heat and few breaks. -
Twenty-five years after North Carolina and Smithfield Foods agreed to address hog-waste pollution, open lagoons remain. Inside Climate News reporter Lisa Sorg explains why the Smithfield Agreement failed. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will consider removing Stephanie Sneed as chair at its next meeting.
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North Carolina A&T State University has been awarded $10 million to expand the school's capacity for research in areas of artificial intelligence, autonomy, cyber resilience and quantum systems. -
Blumenthal Arts says the Charlotte International Arts Festival will not return to uptown Charlotte this month due to funding constraints.
NATION & WORLD
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