The Service Employees Union International wants to flip at least one seat on the Charlotte City Council.

Mayor Lyles’ tiebreaking vote made the proposal moot — Charlotte won’t even take the anodyne step of referring it to a City Council committee for study. The issue is complicated.

Interim Charlotte City Attorney Anthony Fox plans to launch an investigation into inflammatory comments City Council member Victoria Watlington made last month about the city’s $305,000 settlement with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings. But Watlington is continuing to push back — she doesn’t want Fox investigating himself.

The county's frustration boils down to this: After being picked in 2016 — and signing a development agreement in 2018 — The Peebles Corporation hasn’t built a single Brooklyn Village apartment.

During Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones’ budget presentation last month, he presented a slide that showed how little the typical Charlotte household pays in property taxes and fees compared with other North Carolina cities.

Brown is a member of the Charlotte City Council, whose alleged scheme occurred just three years before her election.

Based on the interim city attorney's interpretation of North Carolina's open records laws, it’s worth theorizing how a different scenario could play out under the same reasoning.

Does Charlotte need its own “plumbers”? Democratic Charlotte City Council member Malcolm Graham is on board with the concept.

The near-unanimous vote was a message to Matthews Mayor John Higdon: Please stop talking and get with the program. But the bigger impact would be felt in east Charlotte.

Next year’s opportunity is favorable in part because Republican incumbent Thom Tillis is mistrusted by a significant part of the Republican base — and likely to face what could be a bruising primary.