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Friday, April 7 2017The NCAA ends its boycott of North Carolina after last week's repeal of HB2. Charlotte's homicide figures continue to rise, now to 27…

Mark Meadows, the former North Carolina congressman and presidential chief of staff, was indicted again last week. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his "On My Mind" commentary, says Meadows now sits at the top of a notorious list.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners move ahead with a $2.5 billion school bond package. Get ready to see the beginnings of the Brooklyn Village redevelopment project after county sells some uptown property to prepare the way. With the start of the school year weeks away, CMS and Union County schools have significant bus driver shortages. For the second time, North Carolina is named “America’s top state for business.” Those stories and more.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

Matt joined WFAE in 2021. Prior to coming to Charlotte, Matt worked at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, as a digital producer and audio editor. He also previously worked in public radio at NPR member station WFIU in Indiana. Matt has degrees in journalism and human-centered computing from Indiana University.

Dana Miller Ervin is a reporter at WFAE, examining the U.S. health care system.

In Silicon Valley, there is a group referred to as the PayPal Mafia — the founders and employees of PayPal who later started their own successful tech companies. In Charlotte, we have the Passport Mafia which springs from a company called Passport, which provided employees with experience in building a business and helped birth more than a dozen startups. Is Charlotte an entrepreneur’s kind of place?

The pair led the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 , 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The 22nd-ranked Demon Deacons hit an unexpected bump with quarterback Sam Hartman having to step away indefinitely to seek treatment for what the school has described only as a medical condition unrelated to football.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Amir Satvat, who wants to help the laid off workers find jobs. He created Game Jobs Workbook for those seeking work on video games.

They got off to a strong start and reached first place in the Eastern Conference, but then came injuries. Several players have also been called up to the U.S. National Team. Good for them, challenging for us. On the next Charlotte Talks, we take stock of the season so far.

Dig below the strata of pop songs so ubiquitous you can't stand to hear them anymore, and you'll find plenty of riches in the Top 40, from country crossover to innovative R&B and classic pop.

Fed up with what they see as their industry's tolerance of men's transgressions and predatory behavior, women are telling their stories — in person, in group chats and on LinkedIn.

Tennis's top-ranked Swiatek beat Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the final at Roland Garros. Swiatek's unbeaten run of 35 matches equals one by Venus Williams in 2000 as the longest this century.

Tommy Tomlinson has hosted the podcast SouthBound for WFAE since 2017. He also does a commentary, On My Mind, which airs every Monday.

Today, we’re talking national and regional politics. You can’t have that conversation without talking about former President Donald Trump and the January 6 hearings on Capitol Hill. We have a guest with a lot of knowledge of Trump and who recently spoke to the January 6 committee: Mick Mulvaney.

Before we reveal this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, discover some of the best of the nearly 6,000 entries we received.

Toni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.

2:Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF makes his top ten picks for 1994....10. "Natural Born Killers" 9. "To Live" 8. "Ladybird, Ladybird" 7. "Quiz Show" 6. "L627" (L-6-2-7) 5. "The Madness of King George" 4. "Hoop Dreams" 3. "Vanya on 42nd Street" 2. "The Boys of St. Vincent" 1. "Pulp Fiction". His runners-up include "Bullets Over Broadway", "Speed", "Little Women", and "Ed Wood". Terry also talks with SCHIFF about the growing number of independent American films, the state of Hollywood, and the message of Forrest Gump.