Chicago’s great park opened four years late and everyone forgot about the delay. Charlotte’s council is arguing over six weeks for its airport. … A morning walk, a bridge, and the faceless “they” who build cities.

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.

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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.

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.

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

An eight-week investigation into CMS Superintendent Crystal Hill ended with the board reinstating her. Where things go from here will determine how they’ll be remembered.

Dae-Lee Arrington is mounting a campaign to reconnect the people who run Charlotte — before the city’s biggest decisions arrive this fall. He started by asking nine of the city’s most accomplished artists to make a song.