Ely Portillo
Senior Editor for News & PlanningEly Portillo is Senior Editor for News and Planning at WFAE. In this role, he is responsible for planning and editing daily news coverage, as well as working on newsletters, digital content and long-term projects. A longtime Charlotte journalist, Ely worked at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute and the Charlotte Observer before coming to WFAE.
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Nicole Sidman will face Tricia Cotham in the general election in November as Democrats seek to gain back a seat they lost when Cotham flipped to the Republican Party.
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U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson won the Democratic primary for North Carolina attorney general on Tuesday and will take on U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop in the general election this November.
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The Mecklenburg County Commission got a major shakeup on Tuesday, with longtime At-Large Commissioner Pat Cotham trailing by a large margin for one of the three at-large seats.
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The Associated Press called the primary at about 8 p.m. with less than half of the results in and an overwhelming percentage of the votes for frontrunners Democrat Josh Stein and Republican Mark Robinson.
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There were no surprises in the North Carolina presidential primaries, with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily winning the Democratic and Republican primaries.
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Starting July 1, all Mecklenburg County employees will be expected to work in their offices or designated workspaces five days a week, the county manager announced.
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Union County commissioners voted 3-2 Monday night to ban the use of fluoride in the county's water system.
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If you’ve been following transit and transportation for a few years in Charlotte, you might be forgiven for a reflexive twinge of skepticism when it comes to grand pronouncements about the future. Big ideas seem to be ever-slipping out of sight over the horizon.
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Nearly four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, parts of Charlotte's center city have recovered fully and then some — hotels are full with rising room rates, South End is seeing record office leasing rates for new towers, and there are still thousands of apartments under construction. But one area is emerging as a particularly troubled spot: Older office towers.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools mistakenly paid 225 high school English teachers a recruitment bonus this month that they’ll now have to pay back.