Steve Harrison
Political ReporterSteve Harrison is WFAE's politics and government reporter. Prior to joining WFAE, Steve worked at the Charlotte Observer, where he started on the business desk, then covered politics extensively as the Observer’s lead city government reporter. Steve also spent 10 years with the Miami Herald. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Sporting News and Sports Illustrated.
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Vice President Kamala Harris opened a new campaign office in Charlotte Thursday.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will open a campaign field office in uptown Charlotte Thursday.
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Charlotte has a goal of 50% tree canopy by 2050. But the city says many developers are cutting down more trees than are allowed.
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Between 2010 and 2020, the 25 counties in North Carolina that Joe Biden won gained nearly 649,000 people. The 75 counties that Donald Trump in 2020 won added about 240,000. But from 2020 to 2023, the 25 counties that Biden won gained 175,000 people. The 75 counties that Trump won gained 206,000 people.
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The city of Charlotte proposed Monday to only allow triplexes to be built on corner lots in residential neighborhoods.
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The March 5 primary was the first statewide test of North Carolina's voter ID law. Of the 1.8 million people who voted, 473 had their ballots not counted because of photo ID. That’s one rejected ballot for every 3,800 voters.
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In the March 5 primary, 174 Republicans and 171 Democrats had their ballots not counted because they didn't have photo ID.
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The North Carolina Board of Elections released a breakdown Tuesday of the number of people whose ballots weren't counted because they didn't have photo ID.
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The fight over whether Republicans keep their supermajority in the General Assembly will come down to just a handful of legislative districts. There are 120 seats in the House. Almost all are preordained in terms of who will win.
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Charlotte Democratic Congressman Jeff Jackson apologized in a video this weekend for how he handled his vote to potentially ban the popular app TikTok, where Jackson has built a large following.