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For people with disabilities, recession ups challenge of getting a job (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: October 19,2010

For nearly a year in 2008, Edward Robinson looked for a job around his Huntersville home, applying everywhere from grocery stores and movie theaters to bowling alleys and home-improvement centers. He landed a few jobs, but they never worked out. “It was very frustrating and discouraging for all of us,” said his mother, Patsy Robinson. [...]


Crowded house (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: October 19,2010

(Editor’s note: Part of an occasional series on growth of communities outside Charlotte) Business owner Tana Greene remembers when the only place to eat in the Lake Norman area was the Ham and Eggs restaurant at Exit 28 off Interstate 77 in Cornelius. “It was the cheesiest little greasy spoon you have ever seen in [...]


Meck Times honors 2010 In-House Leaders in the Law

By Sylvia Adcock, staff writer
Published: October 13,2010

About 125 people gathered to recognize excellence in the in-house legal community today at the third annual In-House Leaders in the Law award ceremony sponsored by The Mecklenburg Times and North Carolina Lawyers Weekly. Eleven attorneys were honored. “You are the ones who consistently go above and beyond that which is asked of you,” Mecklenburg [...]