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A year of growth for The Charlotte Ledger
Builders shed few tears about planning director's departure
PART 2: Charlotte’s 2021 highlights — and lowlights — via ‘Charlotte Squawks’
Charlotte’s 2021 highlights — and lowlights — via ‘Charlotte Squawks’ (Part 1 of 2)
Rising rents are squeezing Charlotte’s international students
Here come the North End apartments
Transit Time: The storylines for 2022
BREAKING: Jeff Jackson expected to withdraw from Senate race
Inside the forbidden world of online liquor ordering
Ways of Life: Her generosity started at the dinner table and went well beyond
We can send you fewer emails, if you want
The painter of Charlotte’s changing landscape
Charlotte rezoning petitions in November
Read local: Top books by Charlotte or N.C. writers
Flyover Friday 🎥: Putting the ‘city’ in ‘University City’
Transit Time: A rocky start for Charlotte’s new streetcar
When Charlotte almost lost its airline hub
Ways of Life: At 26, he collapsed during Charlotte's half marathon
These are a few of *my* favorite things
The Nutcracker makes its big return
Charlotte's uneven mall-shopping recovery
Transit Time: Will the transit plan bring rail to Indian Trail?
Charlotte's #1 color commentator
Ways of Life: A pastor who made magic
Our readers' picks: favorite local charities
The cost of keeping Charlotte schools closed
The music stops at Charlotte’s largest record store
A message of thanksgiving to our members
Today's Ledger, from the journalists of tomorrow
There’s a crossword craze — and you can join in
Flyover Friday: Ballantyne transformed
Transit Time: Better street design is no panacea for traffic deaths
How to cope with those rising prices
BREAKING: 30-story apartment tower planned at Price's Chicken Coop site
Ways of life: A love story cut short by cancer
Give a shout-out to your favorite Charlotte charity
New objections emerge to city’s proposed development rules
TV legend Barbara McKay dishes out stories and recipes in new memoir
Covid has not been easy on the eyes
Transit Time: A huge funding shortfall looms over North Carolina’s roads
Holiday parties make a cautious comeback
Ways of Life: Former JCSU president championed education for all
Charlotte rezoning petitions in October
Charlotte hiring expected to pick up
Historical Heavyweights: He built a ToastChee empire and became Charlotte’s mayor
Flyover Friday: Hot🔥 waterfront homes on Lake Norman
Inside Lake Norman's luxury homes
Transit Time: Reader mailbag 📫 + council member talks transit in Raleigh
Ways of life: A big name in furniture who had a passion for building people
A keeper of Charlotte’s history
Is Halloween really a card-giving occasion?
What David Tepper wants, David Tepper gets
Transit Time: A transit plan in flux
Should Charlotte crack down on Bojangles’ illegal marketing?
Ways of Life: Her paintings and her life were splashed with color
Raise a glass: Ledger happy hour tonight in SouthPark
The case of the $10,000 colonoscopy
Historical Heavyweights: The South’s first female doctor
Flyover Friday: The redevelopment of 'FreeMoreWest'
Transit Time: Should Charlotte bring back traffic cameras?
The case of the $10,000 colonoscopy
South Charlotte CMS exodus continues
Ways of Life: The school resource officer with a warm heart for kids with special needs
WATER UPDATE: City advises limiting water use and maybe boiling it
BREAKING: Water main break causes low/no pressure throughout Charlotte
For Charlotte's construction industry, Covid pains won’t quit
It's peak season for coyotes in Charlotte
Atrium Health's response: Health care is very complex, and so is its billing
Historical Heavyweights: The guy who all the stuff is named after
Signs of how Charlotte once was
For Charlotte's construction industry, Covid pains won’t quit
Flyover Friday: Charlotte's biggest developments up close
Transit Time: He’s car-free in a car-centric city
Meck ABC chief on liquor shortage: ‘It is painful for me’
2 insiders weigh in on Charlotte's UDO draft
Ways of Life: She always found so many ways to serve
An accident, a video message from a Broadway star, and now — hope
We asked local state legislators: Do you support ABC reform?
Historical Heavyweights: A 19th century trailblazer in education, medicine, business …
20 years later, a big bet on tech pays off
20 years later, a big bet on tech pays off
Charlotte rezoning petitions in September
Transit Time: How to cut down on Charlotte's traffic deaths?
Bars and restaurants are steaming over N.C.'s Great Liquor Drought
Ways of Life: The Big Man on Campus who made it to the NFL
Online event: College admissions — What you need to know right now!
Obesity eyed as Covid risk factor
Historical Heavyweights: A frontiersman who became Charlotte’s most important founding father
Online event: College admissions — What you need to know right now!
Legislators demand answers on liquor shortage
Transit Time: New details on the Silver Line
Catching up with the father of South End
Ways of Life: She left no call for help unanswered
Local bookstores warn of shortages
Mile marker 22 finally comes home
S.C. liquor store hires plane to advertise in south Charlotte
These days, mall shopping is a hard sell
These days, mall shopping is a hard sell
Transit Time: Lessons from Thomas and friends
Big condo buyout in the works in SouthPark
Ways of life: A photographer on a mission
A new period for Charlotte's modern art museum
How 'super' were you in high school?
The new PTL movie captures the Tammy Faye I knew
Transit Time: Settle in for a longer transit push
The return of Charlotte's fall festivals
Ways of Life: DJ, club owner was 'king of the beach'
Charlotte rezoning petitions in August
Patients face long waits at urgent care
Sorry, boomers, your kids don’t want your keepsakes
The town that couldn't be stopped
Transit Time: Can a runner beat the new streetcar?
Concern in Elizabeth over Atrium's patient discharges
End-of-summer recap: Ledger stories you may have missed, plus exciting plans ahead
Transit Time: Reader mailbag 📫 + more streetcar photos than you can handle
Ways of Life: A doctor who delivered the gift of life time and again
Lessons from UNC's infamous fake classes scandal
Second Acts: How I went from coaching reporters to coaching swimmers
Beyond the metal shed: Charlotte’s self-storage industry goes upscale
Transit Time: New study says transit plan would generate billions, but ...
Financial wisdom in weird economic times
Ways of Life: Anne Springs Close leaves a lasting legacy
Second Acts: She went from selling cars to nursing
View from NoDa: ‘We don’t want to be South End’
Transit Time: Overcoming the 'stigma' of riding the bus
Mask mandate FAQ: Your questions answered
New: Read the county's proposed mask mandate rules
That WBT radio gig was lucrative for McCrory
It's déjà vu for makers of face masks
Ways of Life: A teen with a legacy of ‘kindness and generosity’
BREAKING: Charlotte residents will be ordered to mask up again
Ballantyne may be more racially diverse than you think
Second Acts: Taking the plunge from finance to iguanas
Beer battles: Charlotte’s 3 big breweries are pulling away from the pack
Transit Time: How the city is tackling traffic congestion
UNCC is pumping grads into local tech jobs
UNCC is pumping grads into local tech jobs
Ways of Life: Two young lives cut short, but lived to the fullest
A loophole in vaccine mandates + Courthouse closed + Big events starting to cancel?
Second Acts: A 'recovering trial lawyer' becomes an author and podcaster
Setting the record straight on Charlotte’s trolley history
Transit Time: Are CATS' financial projections too rosy?
Communal office during the week, communion on Sundays
Charlotte rezoning petitions in July
Ways of Life: Her dad fought for the Nazis; she fought for the oppressed
What my Charlotte Ledger internship taught me about local news – and myself
Dry cleaners have been hanging on by a thread
Telling the stories of local 'freedom seekers'
The race is on to close real estate deals
Transit Time: A glimpse into the future
Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance: Less than meets the eye?
Ways of Life: An artist who dreamed and loved in big ways
South Carolina cashes in on N.C.'s liquor shortage
When your smartphone makes you look dumb
Employers still reluctant to mandate vaccines, lawyers say
Transit Time: Are cars the answer to better economic mobility?
A windfall for some needy Charlotte restaurants
Full list of Charlotte businesses approved for Restaurant Revitalization Fund grants
Ways of Life: A teacher who 'didn't treat kids like kids'
Charlotte's new librarian-in-chief
I took my mom clubbing in uptown
Legends of Charlotte: Joan Zimmerman, co-founder of Southern Shows
Transit Time: The real reason why light rail is bypassing the airport
Emails show CMS was eager to book pricey controversial speaker
Legends of Charlotte: Life lessons from Humpy Wheeler
Ways of Life: He would 'rather flame out than rust out'
Legends of Charlotte: Sue Myrick, the city's first woman mayor
Legends of Charlotte: Sis Kaplan on creating a radio powerhouse
BREAKING: Health director Gibbie Harris to retire
Legends of Charlotte: Harvey Gantt on the 'bumpy road' of change
Milestone: Zero Covid deaths in Mecklenburg last week
'Legends of Charlotte' coming next week — and a status update
As Levine Museum transforms, historians question digital plan
Charlotte rezoning petitions in June
Transit Time: New transit projections, but plenty of unknowns
BofA is recalling office workers by Labor Day
How Charlotte is using Clubhouse
Ways of Life: The chef who 'talked junk'
Listen up: 🎧 Audio version of The Ledger now available
Is Charlotte getting a theme park headquarters?
A suburban mom samples South End
Charlotte's burger joints are in a pickle
New real estate opportunity: Charlotte’s churches
Transit Time — Back to work conundrum: where to park?
The dogs are scruffy, with no end in sight
The dogs are scruffy, with no end in sight
Ways of Life: A cop named Crash
What lies ahead for North Carolina's biggest newspapers?
Transit Time: Charlotte's scooters are making a comeback
BREAKING: Price's Chicken Coop to close for good on Saturday
BREAKING: Levine Museum to sell uptown site
Party on: Liquor sales are hitting new records
Ways of Life: A sweet son stolen by addiction
Here come the ‘selfie museums’
Introducing Urban Adventures: Try these forays on foot
The doctor won't see your newborn now
The doctor won't see your newborn now
Transit Time: Local transit ridership is slow to recover
Why are there so many shortages?
New timeline for south Charlotte school assignment decisions
Ways of Life: He brought a seminary to Charlotte
A computer wrote this entire newsletter. How did it do?
What happens when libraries go fine-free?
Transit Time: Buses eyed as the key to regional transit system
Teens cash in on hot summer job market
Ways of Life: Her love for children knew no bounds
Charlotte rezoning petitions in May
A surprise finish for racing’s dynamic duo
A surprise finish for racing's dynamic duo
New sports in south Charlotte shopping center
Transit Time: Poll finds narrow support for transit sales tax hike
Inside the airport's biggest construction project — Queen Charlotte to return!
BREAKING: Credit Karma to add 600 Charlotte jobs
Ways of Life: JFK took her on a date
Introducing The Ledger's 40 Over 40 winners
🏆 The Ledger's 40 Over 40 Awards 🏆
Phillips Place: goodbye movie theater, hello office tower
For parents, the hectic life is back
Uproar at Davidson over alumni email
New details on Myers Park/South Meck student reassignment proposal
Transit Time: Former CATS chief on transit plan mistakes
Tales from Charlotte's tight job market
Ways of Life: Charlotte's Chuck Norris
Commissioners chairman slams CMS, superintendent
What it's like to be back at the theater
BREAKING: N.C. drops mask mandate, capacity limits — effective now
Transit Time: Are bus-only lanes a key part of Charlotte’s transit future?
BREAKING: Gas pipeline back in action
Tankers still rolling as gas hunt intensifies
Announcing 2 new newsletters from The Ledger
Ways of Life: an obituaries newsletter celebrating the lives of Charlotteans
Transit Time: a newsletter about getting around in Charlotte
BREAKING: Charlotte drivers are scrambling to find gas
Subscriber extra: Consider filling up ⛽️
The scramble to archive Charlotte's Covid story
She'll be the first in her family to attend college
BREAKING: City recommends 2040 Plan changes
Your office called. They want you back at work.
The luxury apartments of the future
Morris Costumes sells web business to Warren Buffett-backed retailer
Charlotte rezoning petitions in April
Tales from Charlotte's wild housing market
Why a Charlotte ‘cereal bar’ is crushing it
You've got mail ... down the street
Road trip! 9 ideas for your post-Covid vacay
When the college job hunt goes virtual
When the college job hunt goes virtual
BREAKING: Cooper says Covid restrictions to end by June 1
Lynn Wheeler: ‘Bob Morgan saved my life’
Compromises proposed on 2040 plan
Why newsletters are taking over the world
Do citizens' arrests happen only on TV?
Why are rental car prices so high?
Teed off: A lawsuit at the country club
Charlotte rezoning petitions in March
BREAKING: Huge YMCA donation — $18M
SUV city: Small cars take a back seat
1/3 of N.C. hospital workers haven't been vaccinated
She helps Charlotte businesses get off the ground
Hugh McColl on starting a business
Creating a business that sings
Design firm owners balance love and partnership
A 29-year-old pioneers futuristic fabrics
Big triplex plans for Myers Park / APRIL FOOLS' EDITION
It's a 🔥🔥 seller's housing market
Cooped up during Covid, they hatched plans for chickens
Inside Charlotte's world of professional video gaming
Update: Council member speaks with Elon Musk representative on traffic tunneling
BREAKING: 4-year med school headed to Dilworth
Charlotte’s most forgettable Covid moments of the last year
BREAKING: N.C. relaxes limits on businesses
What the puck!? There’s midnight hockey in Pineville
Try these 8 less-traveled trails
Try these 8 less-traveled trails
The first day of legal sports gambling in N.C.
Announcing the nominees for the second-annual 40 Over 40 awards
Could tunnels relieve Charlotte’s traffic congestion?
Could tunnels relieve Charlotte's traffic congestion?
Inside the Blumenthal's pandemic year
10 ideas to harness that extra daylight
A big vision for north of NoDa
An uneven year for hair care businesses
Charlotte rezoning petitions in February
Debating Charlotte's 2040 plan
Full interview with REBIC chairman Alan Banks
Full interview with urban designer David Walters
Opera Carolina readies its next act
The new rules of business travel
Opposition builds to Charlotte's 2040 plan
'Frontline essential workers' expected eligible for vaccine as soon as tomorrow
SNEAK PEEK: Inside the now-way-cooler South County Regional Library
Black swim programs battle cross-currents of history — and Covid-19
Questions about pro-transit opinion poll
Black swim programs battle cross-currents of history — and Covid-19
NEW COVID RULES: Curfew gone, more sports spectators, bars at 30% capacity
Crunch time for Girl Scout cookie sales
Nearly a year after lockdown, the babies are coming
Habitat for Humanity mortgage delinquencies have tripled
Nearly a year after lockdown, the babies are coming
A key milestone — thanks to you
What happens when cybercriminals attack
Announcing the Charlotte Ledger 2021 Summer Reporting Internship
LAST CHANCE: 40 Over 40 nominations close tonight
Announcing the Charlotte Ledger 2021-22 Reporting Internship
Rats! When Valentine's Day is for the birds
Businesses hoping for autumn recovery
New Charlotte shortage: feta cheese, thanks to TikTok
More traffic on Providence Road? Neighbors worry about proposed townhomes
CMS sticks with back-to-school plan
Introducing the 40 Over 40 judges
Chess is capturing new attention
Charlotte rezoning petitions in January
Is your name doppelgänger causing confusion?
Teen isolation prompts worries about mental health
Changing times at the admissions office
More lucrative than GameStop: Food Lion (in 1957)
A nurse says goodbye to 'Granny'
A son eyes GameStop; dad’s not so sure
Science lesson 🔬: Covid transmission in the schools
Full Q&A with Duke pediatrics professor
Why everyone in Charlotte suddenly has a podcast
Mecklenburg's historic sites are struggling
The making of Mecklenburg's Covid directive
Charlotte Pipe rezoning would allow a stadium
Travelers are ready to hit the road
Nominations open for 40 Over 40 🏆
Confessions of a Charlotte matchmaker
Some front-line doctors have trouble getting vaccinations
BREAKING: Ages 65+ now eligible for Covid vaccine
BREAKING: CMS classes, sports on hold until mid-February
After directive confusion, most businesses shrug 🤷♂️
Health director clarifies new Covid 'directive'
Gibbie Harris shields CMS from tough decision
BREAKING: CMS likely to extend all-virtual learning
BREAKING: Council member resigns after taking construction job
As vaccine arrives, 'we'll be freer'
Outlook mixed for Charlotte real estate in 2021
Council member's construction role is scrutinized
BREAKING: Covid vaccine for ages 75+ available Wednesday