Knights ask Charlotte for $11M towards uptown stadium

Knights officials and developers told Charlotte City Council they’d like for the city to chip in 11-million dollars for a stadium uptown, joining Mecklenburg County that has already committed 8-million dollars to the plan. The Knights earned a particularly icy reception from some city council members, weary of promises of big crowds at Time Warner [...] Read More

Knights ask Charlotte for $11M towards uptown stadium

Knights officials and developers told Charlotte City Council they’d like for the city to chip in 11-million dollars for a stadium uptown, joining Mecklenburg County that has already committed 8-million dollars to the plan. The Knights earned a particularly icy reception from some city council members, weary of promises of big crowds at Time Warner [...] Read More

Journalists converge on DNC sites for walk through tour

Nearly 500 journalists from across the globe, including our own Andrew Kiel, descended on Time Warner Cable Arena in Uptown Charlotte Wednesday for the first behind-the-scenes glimpse of what’s to come with this year’s 2012 Democratic National Convention. Nearly 15-thousand members of the media are expected in town in early September, and organizers know providing [...] Read More

DNCC tweaks 2012 Queen City convention

In a move that was part-expected and part-unexpected, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced a few tweaks to this fall’s convention in Charlotte. DNCC chief executive Steve Kerrigan said Tuesday the convention has been shortened from its traditional four days to three to make room for, quote “a day to organize and celebrate the Carolinas, [...] Read More