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The Comedy Zone is a Charlotte company. It’s part of Heffron Talent International, which you can find at 1000 Seaboard St., Suite B14. The Comedy Zone is the largest comedy club network in the U.S., with more than 60 clubs ...

Warm ocean water and low barometric pressure are the ingredients to make a nice, powerful hurricane. And a sky-high amount of properties in foreclosure and Gov. Beverly Perdue pulling the plug on unemployment benefits for thousands of North Carolinians are ...

Drive along the so-called five-points intersection near Johnson C. Smith University and you’ll see in an area that could use, well, some sprucing up. It’s run-down in places — some might even call it sketchy — the kind of area ...

In response to Tara Ramsey’s report on mecktimes.com, “Troubled subdivisions lead to rocky roads for homeowners,” reader Tom Brasse had this to say: “Mr. Roddenberry with NCDOT mentioned all the requirements for meeting standards, testing, drainage standards, etc. What he did ...

I’m in no way comforted at the moment. Like many people in Charlotte, I’m unsure whether it’s safe to fly out of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. A report dated Feb. 9 and released Tuesday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police gives the traveling public ...

Last week, Meck Times reporter Tara Ramsey wrote about one of the ugly byproducts of the housing crisis. Believe it or not, there are subdivisions in the Charlotte area where residents have been repairing their own potholes after developers pulled ...

I told myself I wouldn’t get a GPS. Having moved to Charlotte last year, I planned to try to learn the city on my own, without the aid of high-tech gadgets. Plus, I really didn’t want to part with the ...

As the first birthday of the NASCAR Hall of Fame approaches, officials in Atlanta are studying Charlotte’s success – or lack thereof – with the NASCAR Hall of Fame. According to a story in Friday’s The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, officials in ...

Many Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers are in a bad mood this week, and it’s no wonder why: Superintendent Peter Gorman is talking again about messing with their salaries. Gorman is giving many teachers heartburn with his visiting of the idea of ...

It’s a new day in Charlotte for affordable housing. The city has a new policy, adopted by the City Council last month in a 9-2 vote, that says where affordable housing can go. The council members who backed the policy ...