Charleston also applied but wasn't a finalist. Amid continued complaints about overcrowding at this year's Center CityFest, the city's special events committee is planning to meet this month to evaluate the festival and consider changes. The Observer has received more than 50 e-mails, letters and phone calls from festivalgoers complaining they couldn't get to bathrooms or food vendors, were pushed by the crowd or felt their safety was threatened. The students, who will march on the Capitol building in Raleigh, say the proposed 7 percent cut in higher education funding would harm undergraduate teaching and limit access to higher education. Moore, chairman of the state banking commission, is expected to announce at a news conference this morning a proposal for major N.C. banks to replace payday lenders.
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Even outer space. At hot dog stands all over uptown Charlotte, the news has been spreading like chili on a foot-long. The computer program, called a GeoNotify emergency notification system, can call 200 homes in less than five minutes, delivering important information about chemical spills, flooding, a tornado or any other emergency, said Wayne Broome, Mecklenburg's emergency management director. It also can notify neighborhoods about community meetings, crime trends or missing children. Boyce Walker loved being at center of family's life Boyce Monroe Walker, father, friend and grandfather, died at home April 21 of cancer.