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Mecklenburg County picks interim assessor, OKs code-enforcement hires (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 5,2012

Updated at 9:20 a.m. Dec. 6, 2012 CHARLOTTE — In the latest chapter of the 2011 Mecklenburg County revaluation mess, the county has hired one of its own to be temporary property tax assessor. On Tuesday, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners unanimously, and without debate, OK’d appointing county General Manager Bobbie Shields to head the assessor’s [...]


Will the Charlotte Knights be victors in their crusade for an uptown stadium? (access required)

By Scott Baughman
Published: May 31,2011

The Charlotte Knights have slain the lawsuit dragon delaying their new stadium in uptown. Now, the Triple-A ball club must convince some skeptical Mecklenburg County commissioners that the project is still a good use of the land. In their pitch, the Knights are pointing to Indianapolis, a city about 440 miles away, and what they [...]