CHARLOTTE — Earlier this week, Rand Paul was showing the flag in North Carolina, the one that says “Don’t Tread on Me.” The Republican senator from Kentucky could not boost his guy in the North Carolina Republican Senate primary into a runoff. But was his appearance at a Greg Brannon rally on the plaza outside the
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — WCCB’s political contributor, Mary C. Curtis, has been watching the race develop between Senator Kay Hagan and State House Speaker Thom Tills. The Republican effort to unseat Senator Hagan will kick into overdrive leading up to the November election. Tillis is the man the party hopes can make it happen. Curtis
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Political Contributor, Mary C. Curtis, sets the stage for Tuesday’s U.S. Senate Seat competition. Republicans across the country are keeping a close eye on North Carolina’s Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate. Eight candidates in the race could make it tough for Kay Hagan to get the 40 percent plus one amount
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an anything upset the script of the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina, as it’s now being written? It may depend on whether a 2014 renewal of the “Moral Monday” coalition and an accompanying voter registration effort will increase dissatisfaction with the state’s rightward legislative shift and motivate enthusiasm for the Democratic incumbent. Because
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rising Contributor, Mary Curtis, talks to WCCB’s Terrance Bates about the aftermath of Donald Sterling’s racial remarks. Sterling is banned for life from all NBA activities and faces a 2 point 5 million dollar fine.
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Believe it or not, something good might arise from the racist swamp of recent news cycles – the crudeness evidenced in Donald Sterling’s taped comments on guilt by black association and Cliven Bundy’s musings on the benefits of enslavement for African Americans. You could sense some beyond skin-deep soul searching in the remarks of National
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It’s fitting that the journey of Lupita Nyong’o has come full circle. In her widely seen and admired speech at the annual Black Women in Hollywood luncheon earlier this year, she told her story of feeling “un-beautiful” until images such as model Alek Wek, actress Whoopi Goldberg and icon Oprah Winfrey filled the screen and
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Early voting in the Republican Primary for the Senate seat currently held by Democrat Kay Hagan starts Thursday. WCCB Political Contributor Mary C. Curtis joined Rising to break down last night’s first Republican debate.
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Starring Michelle Obama and Kellie Pickler? Casting the first lady in a television cameo with the country music singer may at first sound odd. But since her appearance on ABC’s “Nashville,” is to support military families, it’s all for a good cause. The setting of the episode, scheduled to broadcast May 7, is Fort Campbell, Ky.,
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The City of Charlotte approved CMPD’s use of $250K to get body cameras for their service calls. They’ll be used in addition to the tradition “dash cam” in the patrol car. So what does this mean for the people of Charlotte? The body cameras could be launched as early as this Summer.
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