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A male student at Ardrey Kell High School who allegedly beat a female student at the school will not be charged with a hate crime.
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UnsplashIn 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? -
MAX PIXELSince 2020, large public safety training centers have been cropping up around the country. Last summer, Central Piedmont Community College announced plans to build a facility in Matthews to provide training for police, fire and Medic personnel. These projects have faced opposition nationally and locally.
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As his first 100 days in office come to a close, Stein talks about rebuilding, federal aid, and the long road ahead after Helene. -
The state's Republican auditor Dave Boliek will be empowered to use AI to recommend cuts for government efficiency. -
The Charlotte Symphony and another local group are bringing music to people who typically don’t get the opportunity to see live performances in a concert hall. Their goal: to use the art form as a way to help people navigate hardships. -
During Helene, 187,000 acres of national forest were blown down and some believe that logging will hurt the forest's recovery. -
UNC Charlotte professors collaborate on a project that explores how rock cracking changes as our atmosphere continues warming, with implications for everything from landslides to rockfall dangers. -
The North Carolina bill would keep kids under 14 from having social media accounts while giving parents of teenagers more control.
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This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Annelise Mennicke, a UNC Charlotte professor whose federal grant was canceled as part of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting program. And also because her research involved trans people. -
This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Jim Barger Jr., author of a new book called “Rivers and Dreams,” on former President Jimmy Carter’s life as a fisherman — and how he often used fishing to cast the lines of diplomacy.
Get behind-the-scenes insight and analysis about what’s happening in local and statewide politics from political reporter Steve Harrison.
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