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Good Fellows raise $243,000 for poor

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Published Dec. 9, 2009 at 6:29 p.m.

Once again, Louise Williams' boys didn't let her down ... At their yearly Good Fellows Club lunch meeting on Wednesday, nearly 1,000 members and guests dug painfully deep, and stuffed about $243,000 into shopping bags to help the working poor ... Many gave because the hard times demanded it, and because their giving was a tribute to Williams, who was overseeing her 18th and final meeting ... “We are absolutely, fantastically happy that it went this well,” said Crowder Falls, a 30-year member

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Developers, firms seek bankruptcy protection

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Published Sept. 1, 2009 at 10:04 a.m.

(By Christina Rexrode, crexrode@charlotteobserver.com) A father-daughter development team each filed for personal bankruptcy protection Monday, and for three real estate holding companies ... Allen Brown, the chairman of Colony Development Partners, and daughter Cynthia McCrory, the CEO, founded Colony Development last year with several other partners ...

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In case you missed it: McCrory on CNBC

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Published Aug. 18, 2009 at 3:50 p.m.
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In case you missed it, here's video of Mayor Pat on CNBC last week: ...

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Cannon didn't disclose his troubles with IRS in 2005

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Published Aug. 15, 2009 at 6:39 a.m.

In the spring of 2005, many Charlotte Democrats saw Patrick Cannon as their best shot at winning the mayor's seat in two decades ... Only 38, he was a 12-year city council veteran who'd risen to become mayor pro tem. He and his party hoped to ride the momentum from a string of wins the previous fall ... But he stunned even supporters when he abruptly took himself out of the race in May, citing the recent deaths of two relatives and a renewed focus on his family ... “In trying times,” he

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Council keeps streetcar study in budget

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Published June 4, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

In the last meeting before budget adoption, City Council voted along party lines Wednesday to keep a $8 million engineering study of a streetcar route ... The decision came despite protests from the council's four Republicans that the city doesn't know how it will pay for the line's construction, a project expected to cost about $373 million. The 10-mile streetcar would run east-west across the city ... “We have no capacity today to figure out how we're going to pay for it,” said Republican

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Council keeps streetcar study in city budget

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Published June 4, 2009 at 6:29 a.m.

In the last meeting before budget adoption, City Council voted along party lines Wednesday to keep a $8 million engineering study of a streetcar route ... The decision came despite protests from the council's four Republicans that the city doesn't know how it will pay for the line's construction, a project expected to cost about $373 million. The 10-mile streetcar would run east-west across the city ... “We have no capacity today to figure out how we're going to pay for it,” said Republican

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Deputy director will take over CATS temporarily

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Published May 21, 2009 at 11:03 a.m.

Longtime Charlotte city employee John Muth was named interim chief executive of the Charlotte Area Transit System today, and the city said it expects to have a permanent replacement by the fall ... As the city begins its search to replace Keith Parker, who is taking the top transit job in San Antonio July 1, it's unclear how much the city will be willing to pay to hire a new chief executive ... When Ron Tober was hired in 1999 to begin a massive transit expansion, he came with more than two

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Siemens Energy to add 226 jobs in Charlotte

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Published May 14, 2009 at 12:41 p.m.

(By Jonathan B. Cox, jonathan.cox@newsobserver.com) ... Siemens Energy plans to expand in Charlotte, adding 226 jobs ... State officials today approved a grant worth as much as $2.7 million over nine years to attract the jobs ... Siemens will pay average annual wages of $54,000. The company already employs 740 in Charlotte ... Gov. Bev Perdue, Mayor Pat McCrory, Mecklenburg County commission Chair Jennifer Roberts and local business leaders are scheduled to make a announcement of new jobs at 2

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New jobs coming to Charlotte area

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Published May 14, 2009 at 9:15 a.m.

(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) ... Gov. Bev Perdue will be in Charlotte this afternoon to announce new jobs for the area ... Perdue, Mayor Pat McCrory, Mecklenburg County Commission Chair Jennifer Roberts and local business leaders will make the announcement at 2 p.m. at the Charlotte Chamber. State and local officials have not released details on how many jobs are coming or in what field ...

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Why Charlotte floods

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Published May 7, 2009 at 5:09 a.m.

Why has Charlotte flooding gotten so bad? ... Academics and officials say too much development, an old drainage system and unusually heavy rainfall is pushing area creeks past their limits ... “We are pouring millions of dollars into stopping flooding. But we are many years from catching up to the problem,” Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory acknowledges ... New research shows Mecklenburg County is experiencing more flooding lately, with years of increasing development the likely culprit, said Doug

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