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Puff piece ignores local Christian school’s dangerous anti-LGBT policies

Do journalists and news outlets have a responsibility to include information about an institution’s extremist discriminatory policies when writing about them? I think so. And I think it’s doubly important when news outlets write on schools that have extremist, discriminate policies. But in Charlotte, while one puff piece about a local Christian school heaped plenty […]

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One map reveals a divided Mecklenburg County

On Thursday evening, Mecklenburg County Commissioner Pat Cotham shared on Facebook a hand-drawn map analyzing, by precinct, the results of the at-large commissioner election earlier this month. It’s just one simple map. But it contains several stories, each of a divided Mecklenburg County. Electoral divide The shared map comes as debates heat up over who […]