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Posted: November 30th, 2011 Lee Howard

Stories worth sharing this week:

Charlotte activist Roberta Dunn, who is transgender and sits on the board of the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte, was “pleasantly surprised” to be invited to attend The White House’s annual holiday party Dec. 14. The visit will include a briefing with members of President Obama’s senior staff. Phil Hargett, a Mecklenburg LGBT Political Action Committee steering committee member and former chair of the group, will join Dunn in Washington, D.C.

Charlotte Housing Authority commissioner Lucille Puckett was recently evicted from the public housing complex where she lived after meeting repeatedly with a man who had been banned from CHA property. The eviction also means the loss of her position on the housing authority's governing board. Do you think this was the proper course of action? Why or why not?

The middle class is beginning to shrink, as the ranks of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor expand. Recent data shows that between 1970 and 2007, the volume of people living in poor and affluent Charlotte metro neighborhoods has doubled. And, understandably, the shift is a result of changes in income. Cities nationwide are seeing the same trend, according to a study released this month by Stanford University researchers.

Several students from the United Arab Emirates were removed from a flight from Charlotte to Washington, D.C. on Thanksgiving Day after the pilot told police at Charlotte-Douglas International there was a security concern. Nothing was found, and now the UAE wants more information about the incident and is asking how such situations may be avoided in the future.

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