Democratic Convention

Charlotte’s Echo Foundation is looking for students now in grades 10 and 11 who want to see America’s democratic process up close as volunteers at the Democratic convention in Charlotte and Republican convention in Tampa.

Real estate broker Andy Pressley needs homes. Center city condos in particular. One-bedroom, one-bathroom units are ideal, he said.

Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte.

Texas prison inmate Keith Judd got 72,544 votes in last week’s Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia.

The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte now has three official barbecue sauces.

The Democratic National Convention Committee is returning $50,000 in Walmart gift cards after a labor union said the giant retailer “flies in the face of the values we stand for as Democrats.”

This year’s grant winners from the Wesley Mancini Foundation – which benefits the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community – are creating projects focusing on the Democratic National Convention.

Some of those protesters planning to demonstrate in Charlotte during the big convention have decided to march under a different banner.

Charlotte’s uptown transit center will be moved for three days in September during the Democratic National Convention, the city announced Friday.

Business Empire Consulting is an 11-employee company founded by N.C. State students.

Protesters will welcome Duke Energy shareholders at their annual meeting Thursday morning.

MSNBC has signed a deal to broadcast from the first floor of the EpiCentre during the Democratic National Convention, the new owners of the uptown entertainment complex told the Observer Monday.

The city of Charlotte said Monday that upcoming Duke Energy and Bank of America shareholders meetings will represent the first test of expanded police powers that grant officers more leeway to stop and search people in or near protests.

Business Empire Consulting beat out 11 other competitors for the $70,000 contract to design and host the website for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. The 11-employee company was founded by N.C. State students.

Some of Charlotte’s biggest companies are considering telling employees to steer clear of uptown during the Democratic National Convention this September.

Charlotte and Tampa, Fla. – the host cities for this year’s two political conventions – may be able to prohibit protesters from bringing backpacks or water guns.

In its hard climb to raise $36.6 million for the Democratic National Convention, Charlotte’s host committee is reaching out to one of the party’s perennial allies: labor unions.

National Democratic Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz will lead a meeting of the Democratic National Committee’s executive board Saturday in Charlotte.

In its quest for $37 million to pay for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Charlotte’s host committee will not take corporate cash.

The city of Charlotte said Friday it will hold a lottery in early June for permits to march in a designated parade route during the Democratic National Convention, and will announce who receives the permits in mid-July.

In a legal road bump on the way to the Democratic National Convention, convention officials sued a Concord hotel operator Friday for breach of contract.

Add another distinction for this year’s convention. Not only will it be the shortest, it will have the most delegates.

A coalition of protest leaders Friday announced plans for a massive march the Sunday before September’s Democratic convention in uptown Charlotte, a city they called the “Wall Street of the South.”

Those of us in charge of keeping secrets for the “most open and accessible convention in history” (code name: “Open Con”) are furious.

Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa tours Democratic convention facilities in Charlotte: “There’s an energy here.”