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The Charlotte Observer
May 7, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
One of Charlotte’s most prominent church leaders – and a man at the forefront of last year’s fight for North Carolina’s marriage amendment – is weighing a bid for U.S. Senate.
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The Charlotte Observer
April 25, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Public radio station WFAE-FM (NPR 90.7) is hosting a forum Thursday to look at community investments in uptown and other Charlotte neighborhoods, and the impact on quality of life.
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The Charlotte Observer
April 24, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Is Anthony Foxx headed to Washington? If there’s anything to the chatter at the N.C. General Assembly, he is.
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The Charlotte Observer
March 1, 2013 in Featured Stories, News by The Charlotte Observer
With tears and applause, hugs and handshakes, Myers Park Baptist Church said goodbye on Sunday, Feb. 24 to a longtime senior minister who announced in mid-February that he needed to walk away from the stresses of pastoring a 2,200-member congregation.
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The Charlotte Observer
February 21, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Saying he needed to focus full time on continuing his recovery, the Rev. Steve Shoemaker has resigned as senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church.
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The Charlotte Observer
February 15, 2013 in A&E / Life&Style by The Charlotte Observer
Beyonce’s first multi-city tour in more than three years will include a stop in Charlotte, officials with the “Mrs. Carter Show World Tour” announced on Feb. 4.
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The Charlotte Observer
January 9, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
When North Carolina’s new General Assembly convenes Wednesday, Mecklenburg County will enjoy its greatest influence in years, if not ever.
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The Charlotte Observer
December 19, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
A three-judge U.S. District Court panel has sided with Belmont Abbey College in its case against the Obama administration over the requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that employers must provide free contraceptives in employee insurance plans.
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The Charlotte Observer
November 27, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
When he realized he was going to have to live with a group of girls in his dormitory, UNC Charlotte student Anthony Dondero worried about his safety. Dondero is transgender. Although he had been living as a male for more than a year – and had even grown a full beard – he was biologically and legally a female still, and could only live with females under UNCC’s housing regulations.
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The Charlotte Observer
November 14, 2012 in Blog by The Charlotte Observer
A former pastor and theology professor arrested during a Charlotte prostitution sting last year has again been charged with solicitation, according to the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office. Read the rest at charlotteobserver.com…
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The Charlotte Observer
November 12, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte City Council would select a new city manager by early March, under a proposed timeline to be considered by the council on Monday night.
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The Charlotte Observer
November 8, 2012 in Blog by The Charlotte Observer
On the day of his father’s 94th birthday, and the day after the country re-elected President Barack Obama president, evangelist Franklin Graham gave two-pronged advice to the American people:
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The Charlotte Observer
November 7, 2012 in Blog by The Charlotte Observer
Incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby, fueled by an unprecedented amount of outside money that helped him overcome an opponent from a family of well-known North Carolina lawyers, defeated challenger appellate Judge Sam “Jimmy” Ervin IV on Tuesday.
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The Charlotte Observer
October 13, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Mecklenburg commissioner Bill James wants to know if the county is violating North Carolina law by offering domestic partner benefits to employees in same-sex relationships. The answer to that question might result in those benefits being lost, which might explain why James seems to be one of few county officials who wants to know.
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The Charlotte Observer
September 27, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
A small Charlotte-based gay advocacy group has found itself at the heart of the ongoing national controversy over Chick-fil-A and gay rights.
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The Charlotte Observer
September 13, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Obama Cabinet member Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law when she made “extemporaneous political remarks” during a February speech to the Human Rights Campaign Gala in Charlotte, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Wednesday.
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The Charlotte Observer
September 1, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
When North Carolina voters approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages in May, some worried whether gays and lesbians would feel welcome here during the Democratic National Convention.
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The Charlotte Observer
August 30, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
The woman accused of fatally stabbing another woman with a beer bottle last year outside Hartigan’s Irish Pub in Uptown pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter.
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The Charlotte Observer
August 22, 2012 in News by The Charlotte Observer
The Rev. Phillip “Flip” Benham, an anti-abortion activist convicted in 2011 of stalking a Charlotte doctor, has been granted a new trial.
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The Charlotte Observer
August 21, 2012 in A&E / Life&Style by The Charlotte Observer
Playwright Aaron Loeb does bring up the fact that Lincoln and fellow bachelor Joshua Speed shared a bed for four years, a custom that wasn’t uncommon for men in the 1830s. But whether they had a romance, a bromance or just a close friendship isn’t the point. Loeb explores the hysteria surrounding a fourth-grade pageant in Illinois, where a 9-year-old speculates that Abe might have swung both ways.
QNotes celebrates National LGBT Pride Month! Explore local Pride events happening across the Carolinas, region and nation, plus: Pride organizers talk about the meaning of Pride and we explore the history of Pride in the Carolinas.
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