#Mecklenburg

President Trump is talking about my story. Less than 500 people got two ballots. There are safeguards in place. Story here #ncpol: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/mecklenburg-board-elections-inadvertently-mails-2-ballots-possibly-hundreds
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More sobering stats from the health director. 50% of the Coronavirus deaths in Mecklenburg County are in the African American community. For context: blacks make up 22% of the population.
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trump shared a black guy's video that is pro-trump, taken in the back of a truck. Feels staged. So I went down the rabbit hole to find his identity. Maybe
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Dear @potterybarn (and other retailers) : I am NOT shopping by appointment. You're allowed to be open, so be open. And why close at 5 when mall is open until
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WFH Day 1: not much food, will grocery shop during lunch. Send money (just want money, not in dire need) I have groceries, also facing lawsuits for attack on the
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"If everyone could wear a face covering over the next 6 weeks we could drive this (coronavirus) into the ground," CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield just told reporters. County commissioner
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For the record, police video used to be a public record. Then the NCGA made it secret in 2016. The people who passed the secrecy law are still in charge
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I’m uptown at jail support where activists from Charlotte Uprising, SEAC and others are holding down their space after being told they have to pack up and leave. About 40
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Happy Tuesday evening. It is almost time for the #MeckBOCC meeting. Commissioners will get an update from Gibbie Harris and discuss small business relief and receive an updated financial forecast.
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1. TIL a strange tale of #medievalism and #racism in American toponymy. Not my period but I’ll try to be accurate.Once upon a time, I drove from northern Indiana to
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Oh yay a day of ignorant national rage-tweeting about what's happening in my state yay PSA: Educate yourself before rage-tweeting abt NC:-The data (cases, deaths, hospitalizations, resource capacity, testing (&
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There are elected officials all across this nation and assuredly right here in CLT/Meck who think there are some "deserving poor" and who think that the others just deserve to
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Our latest brief on COVID-19 in North Carolina: “Reported COVID-19 Cases in North Carolina: Trends in Age, Time, and Place”. This brief is focused on geospatial and temporal variation
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About the @CharMeckSchools plan that was approved by a 7-1 vote last night...This plan will open the year with 2 weeks of in-person school with 1/3 the number of students
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Hmm: 11% of mail ballots that have been returned in North Carolina's Guilford County (Greensboro) have been rejected, per @ElectProject's https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/NC.htmlThat's more than 6 times the statew
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Here's the situation with COVID in NC:The biggest number that everyone follows is new daily cases. And that chart certainly looks discouraging. /thread/ #ncpol #covid19 BUT then you follow it
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