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reporter. Email: adouglas@charlotteobserver.com. Past SC Journalist of the Year. Proud . RTs for your info, not my opinion

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    Dec 5

    Wall Street pivoted - and profited - off of the nation’s mortgage crisis. Now, mega-investment firms own more than 10,000 homes in Charlotte. So, why did no one notice as the city’s inventory of affordable housing was gobbled up? Here, we explain:

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  2. Dec 19

    Only read this story at work if you're prepared to cry at your desk. P.S. it's okay to cry at your desk.

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    It started with a hasty tweet from . Then one of the congressional candidates showed up for dinner.

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  4. Dec 18

    Among some of Charlotte's best-known history-makers stands a tribute to an unassuming figure who ran the city's first orphanage.

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  5. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    Albemarle Rd from Harris to Regal Oaks is shut down for an unknown amount of time due to a car that struck a pole. Drivers can use Lawyers or Farm Pond as alternate routes.

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  6. Dec 14

    White lanes on I-77 north are barely visible. It’s not even raining so bad. Fog and glare of brake lights on the road seem to be causing the problem. People are driving slow but still having problems maintaining their lane. Yikes!! Stay safe, commuters!

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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    💢TraffiCast™ To say traffic in Charlotte is terrible is simply unimaginative. I would say it is intractable, aggravating, unmanageable, obdurate and stinky.

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    EXCLUSIVE: rang Rae Carruth’s doorbell in Pennsylvania. Here’s what happened next.

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    Dec 10

    Bladen counted early votes too soon in 2018. Witness alleges numbers were leaked, ⁦⁩ reports.

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  10. Dec 10

    Not many people write “Things have gotten way out of hand” in their resignation letters. This is where we are in the Bladen County elections saga.

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    Out-of-state rental companies have bought thousands of houses across Charlotte, raising rents in a city already struggling with a shortage of affordable housing.

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  12. Dec 9

    A used car salesman. As “country as a butter bean.” A convicted felon. And the “guru” of Bladen County politics. Everybody - including state investigators - wants to know more about McCrae Dowless.

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    Dec 9

    Slogged through the icy slush to pick up from the front sidewalk the Charlotte Observer & NY Times, both of which were where they were supposed to be (thanks). In the Minneapolis neighborhood in which I grew up, we had a word for weather such as this. April.

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  14. Dec 7

    US Rep. G.K. Butterfield from eastern NC says House Leadership is prepared for “every outcome including holding an emergency congressional hearing to determine whether there is substantial evidence of election fraud on the part of Mark Harris or his surrogates.”

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  15. Dec 7

    New in Mark Harris says if state election officials find evidence of vote tampering to a degree that helped him win, he would support a re-do. Also says he didn’t know of any wrongdoing happening on the part of those who worked for his campaign

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  16. Dec 6

    After a tight November race, McCready passed on the chance to get a recount. Now, with questions raised about absentee ballot tampering, McCready says he’s withdrawing his concession to Harris.

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    Dec 6

    Who is McCrae Dowless? Well, got a photo of him. And we learned the investigation into the 9th district in 2018 is not the only open probe into him and fraud in an election.

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  18. Dec 5

    This tactic was apparently suspected on BOTH sides of the aisle. and myself dug up allegations & a prior investigation into a Democratic Party-backed group in Bladen, accused of harvesting absentee votes in past election cycles

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  19. Dec 5

    And, local prosecutors & election officials have known about it. Again, for years. DA said: “These groups package the anticipated ability to garner absentee ballots as a commodity to be brokered.” Read more here:

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  20. Dec 5

    The latest in Bladen County If you (like me) have been wondering why someone would so easily hand over their absentee ballot to a stranger.... Maybe it’s because things like this have been happening for years in these small towns in North Carolina.

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    Dec 5

    Mel Watt is the nation’s most powerful housing regulator. His agency has been accused of helping create “a new class of Wall Street slumlords.”

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