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Coverage We’ve set up a dedicated column to cover Southern Holiday, the arts & culture event kicking off tomorrow and lasting through May 23rd. Follow the latest updates at http://cltblog.com/soho. Southern Holiday is online, with more info and an event calendar, at http://southernholidayisrad.com. History Southern Holiday was born out of the steaming humid days and [...]

photo credit: Justin Ritchie CLT Blog and WTVI are hosting a 3-part series about the budget crisis facing Mecklenburg County. We, like many of you around town, were concerned and confused about how we arrived in our current economic position. When all the fear-mongering and scare tactics subside, we’re left with questions about how we got ourselves [...]

But county staff and some commissioners say the project could potentially reduce paper costs and staff time used to produce documents for commissioner meetings. For a recent board meeting, the county spent more than $500 to copy agenda packets, said Brian Francis, an assistant to County Manager Harry Jones. Staff say they’re still trying to [...]

More than a quarter-century later, the rest of us are about to find out. “Cold Storage,” his version of that theme with an eerie love story at its core, gets its national DVD release this week. When Charlotte director Elwood and producer Paul Barrett shot the movie in 2005, seeing it in Wal-Mart and Best [...]

“The thing is that I’m open for anything. It’s a commitment. We have to go through the league. It’s a process. It’s a financial commitment. Am I willing to look at that and say can we go down that road? Yeah. If I get the understanding from the community, from the public, that we need [...]

Just got back from a sneak peak at Charlotte’s newest bar Wet Willies. It is much different from the last time we checked it out. For those of you that do not know, Wet Willies is a Daiquiri bar that has over 20 different types of drinks that range for the mild to the extreme. [...]

Five city employees told an investigator that Charlotte City Council member Warren Turner made sexually inappropriate comments to them, including a female staffer whose complaint sparked the probe, according to a report released Monday night. Read more at CharlotteObserver.com.

Almost 900 teachers, principals and other school staff, most working at Charlotte's most challenging schools, collected more than $2.7 million in bonuses during the past year, even as top administrators forfeited theirs. New payroll data provides a snapshot of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' worst budget year in recent memory. The district's work force shrank by more than [...]

The remaining tenants at beleaguered Eastland Mall in Charlotte have been told to get out by June 30 by the landlord, who says that the mall is headed for closure. A letter hand-delivered to tenants Friday said that the mall's owners had hit a dead end in their longtime efforts to find a buyer to [...]

Bank of America Corp. began the year with a much larger profit than expected, as the company benefited from its purchase of Merrill Lynch during the financial crisis. The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank said Friday that it earned $3.2 billion, or 28 cents a share, in the first three months of 2010. Analysts had estimated earnings [...]

It’s taken more than a decade, but Charlotte Douglas International Airport seems close to building a transportation hub where companies could quickly transfer cargo between planes, trains and trucks. The hub would mean new jobs and an influx of money for Charlotte and the surrounding area, creating 5,100 jobs and landing $10 billion for the [...]