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BACKGROUND

Learn about the county and its relationship to the region

Introduction:  If a county in the Charlotte region could be classified as a sleeping giant during the past two decades, it would have to be Gaston.  After roaring to prominence in the late 19th and...

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SPOTLIGHT

04.25.13 - 01:43PM
Demographics
Carolina metros: Changes in the landscape

In the Carolinas, only Charlotte’s metro area tops 2 million people. Raleigh is roughly half Charlotte’s size at 1.2 million. These two metros have pulled away from the pack of the other Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the Carolinas; no others top 1 million in population. Ten years ago, the metros in the two states were surprisingly different.

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John Chesser
04.24.13 - 02:54PM
Photo contest
Contest-winning photos evoke sense of place

A moody night-time shot of a more than 200-year-old house outside Huntersville, and a sliver of a moon over uptown Charlotte. Those photos, by Kevin J. Beaty, were what took the top honors in PlanCharlotte.org's one-year anniversary photo contest. Click here to see all the winning photos.

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Mary Newsom