The Six Months That Reshaped Charlotte’s City Hall
Photographer Logan Cyrus spent six months finding the human moments inside Charlotte’s strangest season of governance. A photo essay.
Get Used to It, Kid
The analytics say the Hornets won the LaMelo Ball trade. But numbers don’t measure what a city feels — or what you tell a 6-year-old whose No. 1 jersey just became a historical artifact.
The End of Charlotte’s Opportunity Era Is the Beginning of Another
As Leading on Opportunity sunsets this month, departing director Sherri Chisholm sat down to talk about what Charlotte built, what’s changing, and who moves between the rooms now
One year of listening to Charlotte
A note of thanks, on the anniversary of The Charlotte Optimist.
They Stand Between Charlotte and its Worst Days
Inside Santé, the small mobile crisis team that most of Charlotte doesn’t know exists
“I’m not dead yet”: A breakfast with Thom Tillis
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.
I Read the Book That Says Charlotte Lacks Soul. So I Called the Author.
Robert FitzPatrick’s search for Charlotte’s soul comes up mostly empty. A two-hour conversation left me thinking about my own answer.