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Charlotte’s Three Bone Theatre opens its 15th season Friday with “Liberation,” a Tony Award-winning play that examines women’s fight for equality from the 1970s to the present day.
CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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A city of newcomers, but one with a history. The Queen City dates back to the mid-1700s. Named after the wife of King George III of England, Charlotte was just that — a small town, but over the years it has grown even as its principal industries have changed. Ashley Mahoney has traced those changes in her book, "Historic Maps of Charlotte: A History of the Queen City in Rare Maps", and we'll plot the course with her. -
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LOCAL NEWS
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools lottery opens today as the district prepares significant changes to its magnet system. -
The N.C. Democratic and Republican parties are reporting similar overall fundraising totals for state-level races this year, but there are big differences in how the money is being allocated for individual races. -
Libertarian Tom Bailey is running in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District for the second consecutive election. -
Turnout for early voting was up more than 30% compared to the 2022 midterms. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Climate Leaders are a volunteer group working to raise climate awareness in the city. They’re taking aim at one of environmentalists’ biggest boogeymen: data centers. They hosted a data center-themed trivia night Tuesday evening at Patagonia Charlotte in South End. -
Old-growth forests are increasingly rare in the Carolinas. But in Mecklenburg County, you don’t have to travel far to find a mature, biodiverse forest. -
Catawba College’s Center for North Carolina Politics & Public Service and the UNC Charlotte School of Data Science, with support from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, have teamed up to create a nonpartisan, easy-to-use election resource for North Carolinians. -
“Peak Week” recently wrapped up in Boone. It’s usually the third week of October, when the leaves are the perfect autumn color and attract tourists.
NATION & WORLD
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