Lisa Worf
Enterprise ReporterLisa Worf traded the Midwest for Charlotte in 2006 to take a job at WFAE. She worked with public TV in Detroit and taught English in Austria before making her way to radio. Lisa graduated from University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in English.
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Charlotte City Council will vote Monday on turning over that property to developers planning to build townhomes where the dilapidated motel one stood.
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The North Carolina Department of Labor last week fined a farm in Nash County $187,509 after the death of a seasonal farm worker from apparent heat exhaustion last September. The department cited Barnes Farming with what’s called a “willful serious violation” along with two other “serious” violations.
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Trump-endorsed Addison McDowell came out ahead in the Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District. But he’s headed to a run-off with former Rep. Mark Walker.
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Pat Harrigan has won a Republican congressional primary for the second time. This time he’ll likely head to Washington since the 10th Congressional District, now represented by Patrick McHenry, is heavily Republican.
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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore has won the Republican primary in the 14th Congressional District, which state lawmakers recently redrew to help launch him to Washington.
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The Mecklenburg County Commission got a major shakeup on Tuesday, with longtime At-Large Commissioner Pat Cotham trailing by a large margin for one of the three at-large seats.
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The Confederate statue in front of the Gaston County courthouse can stay, if county commissioners choose to keep it there, Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin found. But doing so would send a message. He laid out options county commissioners could use to remove or alter the statue without violating the state’s 2015 law regarding objects of remembrance.
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The CEO who grew Charlotte’s First Union into one of the largest banks in the country and helped shape the city’s growth has died.
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The shooting took place at Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte shortly before midnight Monday. All five victims had wounds that were not life-threatening, CMPD said.
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Starting a business is tough without a loan or a cash infusion. But in Charlotte's Corridors of Opportunity, many people have done just that, building up businesses without help due to discriminatory lending practices, high interest rates or distrust of banks. Now, several grant programs and groups are trying to give businesses the capital and the means to grow.