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And then there were 11…
… people known to be interested in running for the congressional seat currently held by Mel Watt. The list, per the Associated Press and Winston-Salem Journal: • Rep. Alma Adams…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth backs Tony Gurley in the race for lieutenant governor and Richard Hudson in the 8th Congressional District (Dome) A Raleigh television station fact checks Bill…
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Harold Cogdell: Investigate me! And my Corrupt Colleagues Who Enabled Me!
Mecklenburg County Commission Chairman Harold Cogdell has now gone full Chicago on his corrupt colleagues. Harold Ca$h Cogdell, Chicago-$tyle power broker and commi$$ion chairman As much as I’d like to…
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Cha-Ching: Harold Ca$h Cogdell Takes His Cut
As an almost 25 year resident of Charlotte, I’ve been on the lookout for the inevitable cultural changes that would come with iron-clad Democrat control of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.…
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Harold Cogdell: What's Up with That?
Seriously. And then to suggest that he will not be explaining his abrupt departure from the Big Brothers program? Odder still, Cogdell said he didn’t know if was going to…
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Elaine Marshall Carries Meck
We’ll get down in the weeds eventually, but you can really get all you need to know by understanding that Elaine Marshall basically flipped her statewide performance in Mecklenburg County,…
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Election 2010: Here We Go…
Ok, with about 15 percent of the Mecklenburg County precincts in, the GOP has the top two vote getters in the at-large county commission race. Which means not all that…
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Dems Bail on County Commission Debate
Think it has anything to do with the attention the property tax issue has suddenly received? Yet another county social service fraud? At-large Mecklenburg County Commissioners Reject Debate Plans For…
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Bulls-eye. Full Cent for Transit.
That was quick. Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James emails to say that Commission chair Jennifer Roberts has already has already put it on the commission agenda for the next meeting…
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Sifting Through the Rubble
And exactly who thought that Mark McMains — the Libertarian nominee for Insurance Commissioner — would be by far the top LP vote-getter? McMains 152K votes swamped the barely 25K…
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Certify "Citizen Journalists?"
So says a former network talking-head and current associate professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. Whoa. Let’s back up. The double-standard here has me bent almost in two.…