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Braxton Winston went from joining his first protest after the 2016 police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott to serving six years on Charlotte City Council. Ten years later, he reflects on what changed in Charlotte — and himself.
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CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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Candidate's websiteDr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mother from Charleston. She is the Democratic candidate running for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina. No Democrat has won a Senate seat in S.C. since 1998. She discusses her hopes to flip the seat. -
PexelsAmericans are working longer than ever, but many say the workplace isn’t built to support them. Sixty-four percent of workers over 50 report seeing or experiencing age discrimination. Twenty-two percent say they are being pushed out of their jobs because of their age. Since those 55 and older are the fastest-growing age group in the labor force, what does this mean for the workforce? How can older workers stay competitive?
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LOCAL NEWS
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is set to vote Tuesday on removing the board chair, amid a criminal investigation into “financial irregularities” and an ongoing leadership dispute over board contracting practices. -
The estimated $584 million project in Richmond County would have been the sixth combustion turbine at Duke's Smith complex, joining a pair of combined cycle gas units there. -
While most people don’t drive a diesel-powered car or operate heavy machinery, rising diesel prices have a ripple effect for everyday North Carolinians. -
Some want NC courts to strike down the certificate-of-need law, legislative repeal, or partial reforms. Hospital lobby likes things as they are. -
Major changes tied to immigration status and work requirements could affect hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians. -
Three years after the 2023 shooting that killed a professor and caused the UNC-Chapel Hill campus to go under a three-hour lockdown, an Orange County judge finds the accused grad student not guilty by reason of insanity. -
Following its elimination in the new state budget, minority businesses will no longer have the aid of the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses, which helped provide assistance with state contracts for more than 25 years. -
A key issue in a competitive race for a Mecklenburg County state Senate seat is Democrat Woodson Bradley's time in sales for a company that was shut down for being a pyramid scheme.
NATION & WORLD
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