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A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation this week estimates that the U.S. will likely “reach a tipping point on vaccine enthusiasm in the next two to four weeks.” The report writers surmise that once this occurs, “efforts to encourage vaccination will become much harder, presenting a challenge to reaching the levels of herd immunity that are expected to be needed.”
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CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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A guilty verdict in Minnesota reverberates in Charlotte. North Carolina's COVID-19 precautions could be on the way out, while are fewer people in the Charlotte area getting a COVID vaccine. And a compromise is floated for Charlotte's 2040 Plan. Guest host Erik Spanberg and our roundtable of reporters look at those stories and more. -
Screenshot/YouTube/This week marks 50 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case that required an end to school segregation in the area. We take a look back at the aftermath of that decision and its reversal.
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Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law Thursday a resolution requiring South Carolina schools to offer in-person classes to students five days a week starting April 26 and for all of next school year. -
This weekend, the Carolina Fashion Awards are on tap, the Cine Casual Film Series continues, and to spice up things there’s a barbecue grill-off.
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The Senate passed new legislation to address a spike in hate crimes and violence targeted at the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Josh Hawley was the only senator to vote against it.
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The biggest winemaker in the United States wants to open a bottling and distribution center in South Carolina. But it isn’t the taxpayer money that's making the efforts struggle at the South Carolina Legislature. Instead, it’s the California winemaker’s request to open tasting rooms where people can sample their wines.
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The effort to make Washington, D.C., the 51st star on the U.S. flag has never had more support. But the measure's fate in the Senate is uncertain.
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A lawsuit filed by a Black Georgia woman claims white officers from Rowan County, North Carolina, used excessive force during a traffic stop when they pulled her from the car by her hair and tore her rotator cuff.
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Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.
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The Pasquotank County sheriff says the deputy who shot and killed Anrew Brown Jr. while serving a search warrant has been put on leave pending an investigation.
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Also in this week's BizWorthy: It'll cost you an arm and a leg to rent a car these days and ... just what is that smell in south Charlotte?
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Authorities are still searching for a motive behind a mass shooting that killed six people earlier this month in York County, South Carolina. While there are still more questions than answers, the shooter’s father told WCNC he believes football had a negative impact on his son. Could he have had CTE, a degenerative brain disease? One researcher is going to try to find out.
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The president opened a climate summit by announcing that the United States will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, based on 2005 levels, by the end of the decade.
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A coalition of city, county, nonprofit and business leaders launched an effort Thursday to develop a five-year strategic plan to eradicate homelessness and expand low-income housing in Charlotte. The goal is to begin carrying out the plan by fall.
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Tre Soho Studios/Tony Arreaza had every intention of becoming the Freddie Mercury of North Carolina. But after emigrating from Venezuela to Charlotte in 1994, his plans changed. Nearly 30 years later, Arreaza has helped create a flourishing Latin music community organizing concerts through Carlotan Talents, performing guitar with his long-standing Latin band UltimaNota and even having the opportunity to channel his '80s rock icon on MTV Latino.
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Michael Falero/WFAEAt a time when bicycling is on the rise because of the pandemic, find out the history and future of lanes, routes and cycling infrastructure in the Queen City.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FIRST 100 DAYS
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"It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see [systemic racism]," the president said after the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin.
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The president prioritizes racial justice while also acting as an ally of law enforcement, and the trial's end could be the first significant flashpoint over race and policing in Biden's presidency.
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@VP/Twitter/Vice President Kamala Harris visited central North Carolina to pitch the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan. Monday's trip marked Harris' first visit to the state since getting sworn in to office.
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The Biden administration is ordering U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to change how they talk about immigrants, part of a broader effort to build a more "humane" immigration system.
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Just a week ago, only 33 countries were on the U.S. "Do Not Travel" list. New additions include Canada, Mexico, Germany and the U.K.
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NC Department of Public Safety/North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper says he plans to lift most of the state’s major COVID-19 safety restrictions by June 1.
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Unless people are packed together, "there really just is not much spread happening outdoors," Dr. Ashish Jha of Brown University's School of Public Health says.
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The report on Emergent BioSolutions' Baltimore factory found an array of problems, from peeling paint to inadequate measures to prevent cross-contamination. Manufacturing at the facility is on hold.
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Old factory complexes across North Carolina are finding new lives. But in downtown Davidson, developers for years have tried to redevelop an aging cotton mill without success. That's because cancer-causing asbestos is buried on the site.
Charlotte Journalism Collaborative and BOOM Charlotte formed a partnership of journalists and artists to tell stories of COVID-19's impact on our communities.
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