With an understated style and moderate agenda, the 72-year-old mayor will likely cruise to a fifth term this fall.
Michael Graff
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Charlotte Police Chief To Retire With $305,000 Severance
Johnny Jennings will step down at the end of the year after former council member Tariq Bokhari threatened to wound him politically.
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A Charlotte Regulator Gets DOGE’d
A Republican with decades of blue-chip legal experience moved into consumer protection. Then Musk took a chainsaw to his agency.
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McCrae Dowless’ Last Spin
Dowless, a small-town vote wrangler who rose to national infamy over election fraud charges, was laid to rest on Saturday.
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The Search for the Next Phoenix
For decades, two congressional districts have been the primary routes for Black candidates seeking federal office in North Carolina. With redrawn lines, that could change in November—if Democrats match their votes with their rhetoric.