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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Karen Bentley</title>
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		<title>Mecklenburg County commissioners adopt $1.39B budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voting along party lines Tuesday night, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners approved a $1.39 billion budget for fiscal 2012. The budget, OK&#8217;d in a 5-4 vote, includes a lower property tax rate of 81.66 cents per $100 in valuation from 83.67 cents per $100 in valuation. It also lowers the county&#8217;s law enforcement service district tax rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Charlotte Knights be victors in their crusade for an uptown stadium?&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 16:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Cash cow for Charlotte’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/11/09/%e2%80%98cash-cow-for-charlotte%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just follow the money. Do that, Cornelius Mayor Jeff Tarte says, and you&#8217;ll find out why people in the unincorporated areas of Cornelius aren&#8217;t getting the police protection for which they pay. &#8220;It&#8217;s politics at its ultimate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The whole thing is a cash cow for Charlotte.&#8221; Tarte is not alone. He&#8217;s one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican addition could bring board bipartisanship&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/11/05/republican-addition-could-bring-board-bipartisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the red wave that swept the House of Representatives across the country Tuesday, the Democrats on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners were able to hang on to their majority, losing only one seat. Although all six seats held by Democrats on the Board of Commissioners were challenged by Republicans &#8212; the three incumbent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decision 2010: Board of Commissioners District 1 race&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2010/10/26/decision-2010-board-of-commissioners-district-1-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Editor's note: The following is part of The Mecklenburg Times' coverage of the Nov. 2 elections.)]]></description>
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		<title>Eye on Government&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Coakley, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at happenings in local government Commission votes down immigration proposal The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on Monday voted down a proposal by Commissioner Bill James to request more information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about how a county organization could report undocumented immigrants seeking assistance for their U.S.-born child. The measure [...]]]></description>
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