In Charlotte's Madison Park neighborhood, Gretchen Gregg didn't search for a magnet school, a charter school or a private school when her daughter entered kindergarten last fall. She enrolled her at the neighborhood public school,...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Mae Israel
Independent Journalist
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BACKGROUND
Veteran journalist Mae Israel worked for nearly 20 years as an editor at The Washington Post, specializing in local news coverage. As an editor and reporter for nearly a decade with The Charlotte Observer, she covered the area's growth, development and transportation issues. An award-winning journalist, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Israel is currently an independent journalist based in Charlotte.
MOST RECENT POSTINGS
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 10:32
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 11:35
The house at 1154 Cedarwood Lane in Charlotte once sat on the eastern outskirts of the city, a wooded, secluded haven in the 1960s where artists would gather on Sunday afternoons. Today, it’s a potential historic landmark in a city that has...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 08:27
In Charlotte:
The Praise Connor and Harriett Lee House
3714 Country Ridge Road in the Mountainbrook neighborhood
Built in 1963; designed by architect Praise Connor Lee
Designated in 2002
The Robert and Elizabeth...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 16:10
Charlotte-Mecklenburg planners are thinking a lot about apartments these days: what should be included in their landscaping, how many should be allowed in a single complex, and what impact they’re likely to have on growth.
Over the...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 13:47
Along a 3-mile stretch of Rea Road in some of south Charlotte's fanciest high-income neighborhoods, there's no shortage of places to grab a latte or buy specialty cheeses and meat.
A Starbucks shop across from the entrance to a...
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 15:49
North Carolina courts have muted a years-long, fractious debate over whether developers ought to pay to help build schools, leaving local officials trying to figure out what to do when the pace of residential construction picks up again.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 16:55
Charlotte's Belmont neighborhood once was infested with open-air drug markets. It was home to Piedmont Courts, the city's most rundown public housing project. The sound of gunfire forced many residents to stay inside after dark.
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