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  Playing racial-justice roulette

  Suppose the state legislature came up with the harebrained idea to pass a law to exempt the killers...

  Vol. 23 No. 38 Published 11.17.09 by Tara Servatius
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  White flight drives mayoral results

  In a column called "Charlotte's last white mayor," Glenn H. Burkins, editor of the loc...

  Vol. 23 No. 37 Published 11.10.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Charlotte's new power base

  A classic, yet timely, edition of Citizen Servatius

  Vol. 23 No. 36 Published 11.03.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Meet your new subprime lender

  There was great joy recently in Charlotte as builders began pulling permits again to build new singl...

  Vol. 23 No. 35 Published 10.27.09 by Tara Servatius
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  National outrage: hard cores going out the door

  Every couple of months, North Carolina makes national news for the dysfunctional way the state handl...

  Vol. 23 No. 34 Published 10.20.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Mortgage bailout 2.0

  And you thought the bailouts were over. Turns out, we're just getting started. In less than a ye...

  Vol. 23 No. 33 Published 10.13.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Charlotte officially falls off the map

  It was a bitch-slap of epic proportions. A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal published the res...

  Vol. 23 No. 32 Published 10.06.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Are we headed for 'global cooling'?

  For reasons that aren't entirely clear, the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Pan...

  Vol. 23 No. 31 Published 09.29.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Free-range kids: An international debate

  Lori Pierce didn't intend to spark an international debate. When her 10-year-old son William as...

  Vol. 23 No. 30 Published 09.22.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Has a boom turned to depression?

  Michael Smith, president of the Uptown booster group Charlotte Center City Partners, recently used t...

  Vol. 23 No. 29 Published 09.15.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Searching for the cost of health care reform

  You wouldn't buy an auto insurance policy without asking what it cost. But that's what the A...

  Vol. 23 No. 28 Published 09.08.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Blown away: A home invasion gone wrong

  You can't just shoot people, no matter how much they piss you off. But if you are going to shoo...

  Vol. 23 No. 27 Published 09.01.09 by Tara Servatius
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  N.C.'s No. 1 export: Gun-wielding maniacs

  You gotta feel sorry for the folks of South Carolina. Lately it seems that every time another gun-w...

  Vol. 23 No. 26 Published 08.25.09 by Tara Servatius
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  The tipping point: School board axes neighborhood schools

  Eleven years ago, this would have been easy. Fifty-eight percent of the students at Charlotte-Meckl...

  Vol. 23 No. 25 Published 08.18.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Is Charlotte attracting organized crime?

  Tara is taking a break from her column this week. She'll be back with a new piece next issue. So...

  Vol. 23 No. 24 Published 08.11.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Things that make me go 'Hmmmm ...'

  Time once again for a column on the things in life that confound, baffle and surprise me. Governmen...

  Vol. 23 No. 23 Published 08.04.09 by Tara Servatius
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  USA Today article questions climate models

  Someday, school children will learn about the bustling metropolis once called New York City, crossro...

  Vol. 23 No. 22 Published 07.28.09 by Tara Servatius
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  Medical rationing for thee, not me

  There's an interview that all Americans should see before they decide whether they really want g...

  Vol. 23 No. 21 Published 07.21.09 by Tara Servatius
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  The rest of the story on habitual felons

  Suppose someone breaks into your home during the day when you're away and steals everything of v...

  Vol. 23 No. 20 Published 07.14.09 by Tara Servatius
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  The Charlotte jobs engine sputters

  The unthinkable, the truly unfathomable, has finally happened. It appears that Raleigh has now passe...

  Vol. 23 No. 19 Published 07.07.09 by Tara Servatius

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