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Buildings too tall, no setbacks, inadequate parking provision, overlooks neighbouring properties, retail generates excessive noise impacts, repetitive design features Planning application denied

🎉Jim Varney was born on June 15, 1949

A reminder about the WF building. Charlotte City Council unanimously voted to allow it. No one spoke in opposition at the public hearing

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The NCAA has approved Queens University’s transition from D2 to D1 early and they will be eligible for NCAA Championships across all sports this upcoming 2025-26 season, source told The Field of 68

BOOM! The North Carolina State House just unanimously (107 to 0) passed a ban on parking minimums in new developments statewide. This is powerful and bipartisan pro-housing reform that will make it easier to expand multifamily housing. Great work. ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/202…

What do Vienna, Toronto and Charlotte have in common? 🤔 For the first time, Charlotte joins the world’s 50 most liveable cities, according to The Economist’s 2025 Global Liveability Index. In addition to the top 50 global ranking, the prestigious Economist Intelligence Unit has

Ben Franklin appreciation post He was simply S-tier at every endeavor: - Invented bifocals, swim fins, and the lightning rod - Diplomat, statesman, charted the Gulf Stream - International playboy; more like founding daddy amirite - Created the first public library, the first

Food trucks used to sell you 3 of the best tacos you've had in your life for $5 cash only and then people with Masters degrees started buying them and now it's 3 of the worst tacos you've had in your life for $18.50 plus a recommended 20% tip

Was getting a Diet Dr. Pepper at Sheetz. Didn’t realize a man was waiting at the soda fountain behind me, so I said “Oh, I’m sorry,” & he replied “Honey, you never have to apologize for visiting The Doctor” & it does sort of feel like I encountered God in disguise.

Pulling up to my fantasy draft to take Bill in the 2nd round

AI, ORALITY, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF GRIFT In today's newsletter, I go back to Ong-posting to try to answer the question of why grift is so out in the open these days. Why don't people feel shame and the impulse to obfuscate? Why don't other people react more judgmentally?

Happy Friday you lovely people. Enjoy ya pint, youve earned it. Bosh❤️🇬🇧🍺

Children in an iron lung before the polio vaccine, 1950

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In his 24th season on the sidelines, Milwaukee head coach Bart Lundy becomes only the 22nd active NCAA coach to reach 500 career wins, at all levels. He has done so winning at a .678 clip – with a short list of around only 40 coaches all-time reaching that plateau. Bart Lundy can

The Charlotte Hornets are 16-27 but with a total point differential of exactly 0 for the season. 4-12 record in "clutch" games is killing them, but something interesting is brewing there.