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POLITICAL WRAP: Public Hearings in Impeachment Inquiry Begin This Week

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will begin on Wednesday. The televised hearings will feature public testimony from three key witnesses. U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor and State Department Official George Kent will appear on Wednesday. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is set to testify on Friday. […]

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POLITICAL WRAP: Election Preview – City Council, School Board, Sales Tax Referendum

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Tuesday voters in Charlotte will elect a Mayor and City Council. Across Mecklenburg County, three at-large school board seats are also up for grabs. And there’s a quarter-cent sales tax referendum on the ballot to support arts, parks, and schools. Click above for more in this week’s political wrap with WCCB Charlotte Political Contributor

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Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: Clayton Wilcox Accusations; NC Congressional Maps; Arts Tax

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On the next Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup… People have been wondering for months what led to former CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox’s July suspension and later resignation from the school system. This week, the Charlotte Observer reported that there were reports of racist and sexist remarks by Wilcox that were reported to officials in the system and that the school

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Pete Buttigieg tries to solve his South Carolina puzzle

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[OPINION] ROCK HILL, S.C. — Why was South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg in South Carolina over the weekend, with a busy schedule that included tailgating at a historically black college homecoming and delivering remarks at an AME Zion worship service? “To say that I want to be the president who

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N.C. Congressional Districts, Impeachment Inquiry

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It has been a busy week in politics, both in the state and nationally. In North Carolina, a three-judge panel of state judges said the state cannot use the current congressional districts as drawn for the 2020 elections while the lawsuit against them proceeds. This may mean the state’s March 3 congressional primaries could be

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POLITICAL WRAP: al-Baghdadi Military Operation; Mayor Pete Campaigns in Rock Hill

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – President Donald Trump is declaring that the leader of Islamic terrorist group ISIS is dead. And Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg spent the weekend campaigning in South Carolina. Click above for more in this week’s political wrap with WCCB Charlotte political contributor Mary C. Curtis.

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With ‘lynching’ comment, Trump retreats to his racist comfort zone

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OPINION — When Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley sent her 14-year-old son, Emmett, to visit relatives in Mississippi, she never thought he would return in a casket, a victim of a mother’s nightmare and America’s shame. A group of white men kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and murdered him that summer in 1955 for the “crime” of flirting with

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