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Sunday Football Open Thread: Saints at the Panthers

Are you ready for some football? 🙂 I am, especially considering this will be the Panthers home opener and against a division rival. Not only that, but after last week, it’s not only the players who are hungry for a Cats win. Fans of this team know the great plays these guys can make on the field. The potential for a winning season is definitely there. They just have to do it. The loss against Tampa Bay was downright embarrassing – to say the least. We can do better......   [Read More]

Creative Loafing: City allowing, “on good faith”, #OccupyCLT #DNC2012 camp space (UPDATED)

This morning I wrote about an overnight development in which DNC 2012 demonstrators – including members of Occupy Charlotte – asserted they had been “in talks” with the city to make Marshall Park uptown into a campground for people to set up tents for the week of the convention. As of the time I wrote about and referenced this story, which was reported by the Charlotte Observer’s Cleve Wootson, it was unclear as to whether or not occupiers had actually been in contact with the city to discuss having the city give them special permission to break the anti-public park campaign ordinance strengthened earlier this year by our Democrat-controlled City Council......   [Read More]

#OccupyCLT sets up tent city blocks from #DNC2012, say they have police permission

In overnight developments related to the DNC, the Charlotte Observer’s Cleve Wootson reports that Occupy Charlotte – which used to be based on the grounds of Old City Hall until the city beefed up anti-camping ordinances earlier this year, effectively ending the camping – is back in business and has set up camp at Marshall Park uptown:.....   [Read More]