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Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones said he sees brighter economic days ahead as he presented a $1.3 billion recommended budget to county commissioners Tuesday night. Property values rose on average by 9.2 percent following this year’s revaluation, bringing the total ...

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Age: 62 Lives in: Mooresville Family: wife, Carol; children, Lauren, 25, Taylor, 22 Education: attended Eastern Michigan University but didn’t graduate Bill Sundberg has changed jobs a lot. One might say that’s a sign of the times, but for this ...

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The math is coldly convincing. A person having a teeth-whitening treatment can spend between $300 and $700 at a dentist’s office, or between $100 and $150 with a nondentist, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed in opposition to ...

Hometown: Pittsburgh Age: 47 Education: bachelor’s degree in journalism, Ohio University Family: husband, Bill; children, Shealy, 14, Carson, 16 Kim McMillan knows the value of good communication, but she hasn’t spent all her time in the ivory towers of public ...

Charlotte City Manager Curt Walton is floating the idea of lowering property taxes from 45.86 cents per $100 in property value to 43.7 cents. Under the new rate, the owner of a $200,000 home would pay $874 in property taxes, down ...

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Peggy Beck has seen this all before. To Beck, a property owner who lives about a half-mile from the Foxhole landfill on U.S. Route 521, the brouhaha over the possible expansion of the dump gives her déjà vu; she was ...

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After eliminating overdraft fees last year, Bank of America is poised to bring them back. But customers will have more control over whether they pay the fees under a new Bank of America test program announced Friday by Laurie Readhead, retail segments ...

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Duke Energy Corp. shareholders might need more coal or they might need no more coal. Dueling groups of protesters chanted for both at demonstrations today on South Church Street outside the utility company’s annual shareholders meeting in Charlotte. Both groups ...

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In a move to save costs, the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a plan to consolidate some human resources and information technology functions with the library system. They OK’d consolidating two HR positions and eight IT posts ...

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Mecklenburg County is on track for property tax collections this year, the county’s finance director said Tuesday. During a county commissioners meeting, Dena Diorio said the county needs to collect about $5.1 million more in taxes to meet the property tax ...

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