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Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio is recommending a budget that requires a 1.5-cent tax increase and fully covers increases requested by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Central Piedmont Community College. The property tax increase would mean about $57 more a year for the owner of a median-priced home. It comes in a year when the city of Charlotte is also considering a 1.5-cent property tax increase.
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UNC-Chapel Hill to 'take action' against protesters who participated in recent campus demonstrationsUNC-Chapel Hill has already suspended about 15 students following a pro-Palestinian encampment late last month. Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts said the university is continuing to review other demonstrations and plans to “take action” against more protesters.
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Wallace is known for his celebrity profiles, but his new memoir, "Another Word For Love," is about his own life, growing up unhoused, Black and queer, and getting his start as a writer at the age of 40.
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The Netflix show's third season takes on the "friends to lovers" romance trope.
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Remember that Disney film "Up?" In it, an old man refuses to sell his aging house while modern development springs up around it. That situation is now playing out in real life in Charlotte’s Optimist Park neighborhood. More on this story, and others, on this week's BizWorthy.
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With the 75-year-old Park Road Montessori School slated for demolition, two students are fighting to protect towering trees that represent the school's nature-oriented vision.
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The collision's impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill.
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The Interstate 26 Connector project has been in the works for decades. NCDOT has awarded a construction contract for the northern section through Asheville.
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A lower-than-expected revenue surplus could delay extra funding for a private school voucher program.
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About a dozen protesters shouted "disclose, divest" as they were escorted out of the meeting by UNC police.