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Former Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday.

Remember the Unified Development Ordinance, or UDO? That's the comprehensive plan that Charlotte leaders adopted three years ago to guide growth. One contentious new rule allows duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes in more places than before. The Charlotte Ledger has an update on just how many of them have been built since City Council adopted the ordinance.

Charlotte has lost another print publication. Alternative newspaper Queen City Nerve announced this week it's closing effective immediately, citing financial hardships. It follows Charlotte magazine shutting down last year, after nearly six decades. For more on what the latest closure says about the state of media in Charlotte, the Charlotte Ledger's Tony Mecia joined WFAE's Marshall Terry

Consumer spending in Mecklenburg County appears to be flatlining. The county told The Charlotte Ledger it expects to collect $414.3 million in sales taxes for the fiscal year that ended in June. That's a little less than the previous year, although Charlotte continues to grow rapidly with people, jobs, and development. What's going on? For more on this and other business news, The Ledger's Ashley Fahey joined WFAE's Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.

The state of North Carolina wants flounder. Not to eat, though. To research. The Department of Environmental Quality is asking recreational fishermen to donate their catch for that purpose. The request comes as the flounder season begins Tuesday in North Carolina and lasts for two weeks. Charlton Godwin will be doing some of that flounder research. He is a biologist with the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. He joined WFAE's Marshall Terry.

It's time for a fact check of North Carolina politics. We're looking at a post on X by Shiloh Marx, president of the Integrity First Alliance. Referring to the 2024 election, Marx wrote , “Governor Josh Stein won North Carolina by 828,187 votes. North Carolina processed 1,031,350 duplicate registrations.” For more, Paul Specht of WRAL joined our Marshall Terry.

When American Airlines recently announced its resumption of nonstop flights between Charlotte and Barcelona, it hailed the move as another example of American expanding in Charlotte. But American actually continues to cut back on the number of flights and seats in Charlotte. That's according to an analysis by The Charlotte Ledger, whose Tony Mecia joined WFAE's Marshall Terry for our segment BizWorthy.

Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney announced Tuesday that he is retiring and will step down at the end of the month.

Charlotte has all of the things you'd associate with a big city. Skyscrapers. Pro sports. The arts. A thriving culinary scene. Almost a million people, and lots of traffic, of course. But does Charlotte actually act like a big city? It's a question longtime resident and journalist Mary Newsom examines in a four-part series published this week in the Charlotte Ledger . She joined WFAE's Marshall Terry to talk about it for our segment, BizWorthy.

It's time for football. The Panthers open their regular season at 1 o'clock Sunday, when they host the Chicago Bears at Bank of America Stadium. Expectations are high after last season, when they won the NFC South for the first time in a decade; it was their first playoff appearance since 2017. For a preview, WCNC Sports Director Nick Carbone joined WFAE's Marshall Terry.