The City of Charlotte approved their largest budget in history for 2019, a whopping $2.6 billion!  Yes, that is a “B” after the $2.6.

This is an 8.8% increase from last year’s $2.39 billion budget.

Cancer is bad, and many women face bouts with breast cancer.

Just here in North Carolina, lawmaker and Republican Becky Carney, 73, announced she has breast cancer.  The good news, if there is any,…..is that she has stage 2B breast cancer; an early stage that’s usually treated successfully.  She has already undergone a lumpectomy and will begin chemotherapy treatments soon. Rep. Carney intends to continue serving in the House and campaign for re-election in November.

School shootings are on the rise and North Carolina is taking action.

Since the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, there have been at least 239 school shootings nationwide and 138 killings in those shootings.  With 23 shootings in the first 21 weeks of 2018, it is safe to say that schools are certainly on notice that they should be implementing measures to prevent shootings.

According to Charlotte, NC civil litigation attorney Lori Keeton, North Carolina legislators are considering a variety of options to attempt to address the issue in NC schools.

Location, location, location….The Charlotte real estate market is hot!

....and no wonder…according to a recent report by PwC and the Urban Land Institute, Charlotte is the third most attractive real estate market in America.