A new UNC Charlotte survey finds a region that’s satisfied today and doubtful about tomorrow. What’s behind the gap, and the case for practicing optimism anyway.

9 Charlotteans in their 80s and 90s, and the parts their resumes leave out.

Don and Sally Olin spent a decade helping Charlotte families care for their aging parents. Then they became the clients. On growing old in a young city, and who catches you.

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The CMS board fired Superintendent Crystal Hill 5-4. Then it released a report that found no improper conduct. A column on a chaotic night at the government center.

Ten years after Keith Scott, an essay on the night at the Omni and how Charlotte’s changed in the decade since.

A two-hour walk with Rickey Hall through the neighborhood he’s spent his life defending. And why he now wants his neighbors to stop fighting the I-77 toll lanes and name their price.

It’s not just Hunting Wives. Two prominent filmmakers were planning to shoot in Charlotte — one of them the granddaughter of the man who made It’s a Wonderful Life, the other a Broadway legend. Then North Carolina’s film money ran out.

Charlotte has about seven PR pros for every journalist. The gap between who can design their message and who can survive a bad one shapes everything you know about this city.

Gregory Bovino, who led last November’s “Charlotte’s Web” immigration operation, had an exchange with beloved bakery owner Manolo Betancur