This week, Central Piedmont Community College will graduate 1,843 students. President Kandi Deitemeyer has been here for nearly 10 years — through controversies and calm — and has turned the college into an engine of opportunity.

A few thoughts on the Charlotte mayor’s abrupt resignation, and why it happened

A note of thanks, on the anniversary of The Charlotte Optimist.

Inside Santé, the small mobile crisis team that most of Charlotte doesn’t know exists

To know Ohavia Phillips-Reed, one of Charlotte’s most recognizable media personalities, you have to understand her history. Specifically, you have to understand the history of ackee and saltfish.  The national dish of Jamaica, ackee and saltfish is an identity dish similar to the bacon, egg and cheese for New Yorkers, or pork barbecue for North […]

The retiring North Carolina senator has 259 days left in office. Over breakfast in Charlotte, he talks Trump, the Fed, and why he says he’s been this way all along.

On the same April night, a hardcore punk band in a 100-year-old club and a bank CEO in a ballroom reached, from opposite ends of the city, for the same word.

How Chris Moxley helped build 704 Shop into a beloved Charlotte brand

Robert FitzPatrick’s search for Charlotte’s soul comes up mostly empty. A two-hour conversation left me thinking about my own answer.

A generation of Charlotte small business builders is entering its final chapter. What happens next will shape the city for decades.