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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; 2012 Democratic National Convention</title>
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		<title>Legal aid available for nonunion Democratic National Convention workers&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/11/15/legal-aid-available-for-nonunion-democratic-national-convention-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all of the controversy over union labor and the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a group is offering free legal aid for nonunion workers who are forced from jobs during the convention next fall. The Springfield, Va.-based National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is behind the legal assistance project. According to a press release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meck code  enforcers brace for DNC rush&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/11/meck-code-%e2%80%a8enforcers-brace-for-dnc-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By next summer, with the 2012 Democratic National Convention around the corner, Jim Bartl and his staff at the Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement Office are likely going to have their hands full. They could be flooded with permits as contractors try to prepare venues across the city for the September event. But how full code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denver DNC  put construction firm ‘on the map’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/11/denver-dnc-%e2%80%a8put-construction-firm-%e2%80%98on-the-map%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2007, the Democratic National Convention awarded Alvarado Construction the contract to lead the construction team for the 2008 DNC in Denver. It was a $13 million job that involved readying the Pepsi Center for the event that following August. But it did more than raise the bottom line for Lisa Alvarado’s Latina-owned, Denver-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Convention Tension&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/10/11/convention-tension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 28, former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt stood behind a podium at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, addressing the crowd that had gathered for the press conference. The focus of the event was the 2012 Democratic National Convention, which the city had learned it won just two months earlier. More specifically, the press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video entrepreneurs aim to fill void, cash in on Democratic National Convention&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/07/22/video-entrepreneurs-aim-to-fill-void-cash-in-on-democratic-national-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Tommy Nichols told his friends he was quitting his information technology job at Central Piedmont Community College to start his own company he got some strange looks. “They asked me if I was nuts for quitting a steady job in this economy,” Nichols said. “But I told them I had a dream and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRVA names 3 new board members</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/07/20/crva-names-3-new-board-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority announced today that it has three new board members. Chuck Allen is the Charlotte-based managing director of government and community relations for US Airways. Will Miller, who helped Charlotte with its bid for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, is executive director and founder of Social Venture Partners Charlotte and a partner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For businesses breaking zoning laws, Charles Witherspoon is the man to fear&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/24/for-businesses-breaking-zoning-laws-charles-witherspoon-is-the-man-to-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detective Charles Witherspoon usually doesn&#8217;t get involved until things get really bad, and the situation last year at Vox Sports Club on Wilkinson Boulevard in west Charlotte was about the worst he&#8217;d ever seen. The 28-year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department heads the Nuisance Abatement Unit, a collaboration between CMPD and other local government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic National Convention kickoff highlights opportunities for small businesses</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/14/dnc-kickoff-highlights-small-business-opportunities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The job of the host committee for the 2012 Democratic National Convention is to make sure Charlotte&#8217;s small-business community is aware of the opportunities to make money with the convention. That was the message from Dan Murrey, director of the host committee, today at Central Piedmont Community College event to kick off the convention. The committee is putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxx: 2012 DNC will focus on minority-owned businesses</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/04/28/foxx-2012-dnc-will-focus-on-minority-owned-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and former Mayor Harvey Gantt said it will be important to make sure that minority businesses aren&#8217;t overlooked when the Democratic National Convention comes to Charlotte in 2012. &#8220;This convention is about showcasing our city but also about showing we understand the ideas and principles of the Democrat party,&#8221; Gantt said at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofits expect to profit from convention&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/02/15/nonprofits-expect-to-profit-from-convention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bea Quirk, contributing writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just hours after the Democratic Party announced that Charlotte would host its 2012 national convention, the Levine Museum of the New South got a phone call. A national organization wanted to book the museum during the convention for a sit-down dinner for 500 people. The museum thanked the group for its interest, but it had [...]]]></description>
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