Editor’s Notes
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Editor’s Note: Best in the Nest 2022 is a Look Back from the Future
It’s hard to believe that we’re here bringing you our fourth annual Best in the Nest issue. I remember sitting…
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Editor’s Note: Queen City Nerve Is a Matter of Passion
In an Editor’s Note that we published in the second issue of Queen City Nerve, which published on Dec. 19,…
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Editor’s Note: Best in the Nest Is a Guide, Not a Competition
We came into this year with such hope. A vaccine had been developed, researched, and found to be safe and…
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Editor’s Note: Courageous SHIFT Fights the Good Fight Against All Odds
I first met Courageous SHIFT founder Melody Gross in 2018 while working on a series of stories about domestic violence…
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Editor’s Note: Telling Both Sides of Charlotte History
This week’s issue marks the return of local historian Pamela Grundy’s Black History of Charlotte series, which we began publishing…
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Editor’s Note: Meck Dec Day and Charlotte’s Racist History
In our latest News feature, Ryan Pitkin talks to local author and social entrepreneur Justin Jones-Fosu about diversity and inclusion,…
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Editor’s Note: Cherry’s Longtime Leaders Are Not for the Disrespect
Barbara Rainey has seen a lot of change in Cherry over her 70 years. Having lived the first 33 years…
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Editor’s Note: Keeping Mary’s Voice Alive
At around sunset on April 4, 2021, a group of about 60 people gathered at Davis Flohr Neighborhood Park in…
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Editor’s Note: Second-Chance Employment Is a Forgotten Part of the Justice Conversation
When I first met Patrice Funderburg in the summer of 2017, she was in the basement of a church in…
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Editor’s Note: The Crisis Doesn’t Disappear with Tent City
Standing in her rainbow-tie-dyed sweatsuit, purple headband, and pink rain boots, Victoria Boyd was the most colorful person at Tent…
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Editor’s Note: The Capitol Insurrection Was the Illogical Next Step
Like anyone with half a heart, brain and/or soul, I watched the events of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection unfold…
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Editor’s Note: Proud New Year’s Eve Party Pooper
The time we’ve all been waiting for is here. The end of 2020, a year that will live in infamy.…
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Best in the Nest 2020: The Best People Show Up In a Bad Year
What the hell just happened? It seems like either 10 years ago or yesterday we were coming into the new…
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Editor’s Note: A Community Stands Up
When I spoke with him on Nov. 13, Sam Smith had put in countless hours of community organizing over recent…
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Election Day Editor’s Note: Where Do We Go From Here?
What a weird time for a print day. As I’m writing this, it’s right around noontime on Election Day. In…
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Editor’s Note: Ghost Stories and Abandoned Cemeteries
This week’s issue has a spooky theme running through it, with it being Halloween and all, but in putting it…
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