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Mark Washburn covers media and writes on local issues for The Charlotte Observer.

Charlotte, N.C
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Joined January 2012
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  1. Retweeted
    Dec 9

    THE MIRACLE AT HARD ROCK STADIUM 📺 »

    THE MIRACLE AT HARD ROCK
    #NEvsMIA - NFL
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    Nov 30

    This notes reads like an antique from a kinder, gentler America that’s now ancient history. But it was written only 25 years ago.

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    Oct 29

    Records show Rep. Dulin faces December trial on Ohio DUI charge. He calls it ‘a smear.’

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  4. Oct 25

    Well said, Heather.

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  5. Oct 18

    While Charlotte's airport was telling local customers it was high time to raise their parking rates, it was bragging to bonding agencies about how much more money the lots were making.

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  6. Oct 17

    Why Charlotte won't be building a rail link to the airport in your lifetime ...

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    Sep 13

    .: Numbers in toll rates presentation were "broken up into segments" and would add up to $19 round trip (maximum cost after six-month initial period). "Everyone wants to have some clarity," he says. "We're just starting at $19, that number could go up."

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    Sep 13

    Video: Overwash between Frisco and Hatteras village

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  9. Sep 7

    Keep pounding, my friend.

    Wow! Just realized this.... 46 years ago this evening I began my career..first radio show..I was hooked...snowballed into much more! Someday I will figure out what I want to do when I grow up.
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  10. Sep 7

    After 37 years at WBTV, Paul Cameron is retiring: ‘I kind of like this vacation thing.’

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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 29

    Hi, guys - this is my last Tweet because my position at the Observer has been eliminated 😐 Thanks for following Retro Charlotte over the years - you're such a smart/smarty pants bunch, it's been a blast! Signing off with the Southern Railway Station, W Trade, '62. 🍻

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  12. Aug 19

    Solution to the DMV problem is waiting at the liquor store.

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    Aug 12

    With Venezuela deteriorating, this is happening: “They be pirates”: An old scourge is reappearing in the Caribbean

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  14. Aug 3

    I can't beat that.

    My first story for the Observer still had the best kicker quote I'll ever have, I think: "Sometimes, you just gotta say, 'OK, I still have nine live, two-headed animals,' and move on."
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    Jul 26

    Canterbury on getting media calls when he was fired: "I only took the call from Phil Kabler. I figured everybody else could learn it from him."

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    Jul 19

    We found a way to get the paper out.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jul 10

    Our WV newspapers + seek to open DEA records that show where drug firms shipped pain pills. The DEA and DOJ has teamed up with the pharma makers/distributors to keep the data under wraps via

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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 5

    The pile of police reports released on July 5 never disappoints.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    A short story about a bridge that includes: ✔️ Angry farmers ✔️ A legendary pickle sale ✔️ A politician who resigned and then tried to take it back ✔️ A roads department that didn’t actually build a road to said bridge LISTEN:

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    Commentary: While North Carolina’s population has surged 6% this decade, more than a third of the state’s rural towns have lost population, a staggering contradiction in one of the Sun Belt’s most dynamic regions.

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