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Many journalists have read the book and seen the movie All The President s Men. The tale of the reporting behind the Watergate break-in has long been an inspiration for many to enter the profession, and it contains one of the most classic lines: Follow the money.
That means, of course, that money is the driving force in our world in good and bad and simply mundane ways.
And money was at the root of many of this week s biggest stories. To start, Charlotte s City Manager Marcus Jones revealed his budget for the upcoming year. In a presentation to City Council and reporters, he focused on how the budget did not include a tax hike, but contained higher starting salaries and raises for most employees.
WFAE Charlotte artist Michelle Bunny Gregory stands next to the bus she s converting into a mobile studio that will travel around the city to help kids in undeserved communities learn creative skills, including art activities and music.
There’s an unusual sight just off Monroe Road near East Mecklenburg High.
A school bus sits parked by its lonesome, painted white with splashes of yellow reminiscent of comic books and graphic art. And … it has nothing to do with the school. But it has everything to do with kids. It s the brainchild of Charlotte artist Bunny Gregory, and her dream a long time coming is finally about to hit the road.
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T Afo Feimster stands next to NC 8, a mural he and fellow artist Abel Jackson just completed at 1600 W. Trade St. in Charlotte. The mural depicts eight legendary Black musicians from North Carolina.
Almost as soon as you head west from uptown Charlotte into the historic Biddleville neighborhood, you’re greeted with public art.
As construction crews worked on West Trade Street near where an extension of the Gold Line Streetcar is coming on a recent morning, color popped behind them. On the side of Johnson C. Smith University’s Arts Factory, a beaming mural showed off past and contemporary scenes from the city’s Historic West End.
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President Trump will leave the White House for good this week just before Joe Biden is inaugurated Wednesday.
Are Calmer Days Ahead? Or Is A Storm Brewing?
It was another busy news week, and somehow we re wondering: Is this the crest of the wave or are we still in the calm before storm?
It s pretty insane to think that the calm might include 1. President Trump s second impeachment and 2. Such high levels of coronavirus transmission in the Charlotte area that Mecklenburg County s public health director has recommended sticking to virtual options whenever possible for the next three weeks.
In the meantime, we re all still learning to live with a COVID-19 surge, with a new more easily transmissible strain expected to take hold in the U.S. that could lead to overwhelming the health care system more than it has been already. In South Carolina, one coroner is worried she ll run out of morgue space, as WFAE s Sarah Delia reported. And just Friday, Gov. Henry McMaster aske