Local News Roundup: More CMS leadership issues; Trump stumps for Whatley; Charlotte may flip on I-77; WTA comes to the Queen City – WFAE 90.7

Local News Roundup: More CMS leadership issues; Trump stumps for Whatley; Charlotte may flip on I-77; WTA comes to the Queen City  WFAE 90.7

The back-and-forth between CMS leaders continues. President Donald Trump stumps in Gastonia for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley. Charlotte City Council may reverse its vote opposing the I-77 toll lanes, and the Women’s Tennis Association is moving its headquarters to Charlotte. Those stories and more with our roundtable of reporters. We’ll have the latest from Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools this week as some school board members push to remove Chair Stephanie Sneed. The item is on the board’s Sept. 22 agenda. Board members Cynthia Stone, Monty Witherspoon, and Lenora Shipp brought the motion forward. This comes the same week as The Charlotte Ledger writes, Superintendent Crystal Hill sent a memo to the board regarding her suspension; more members of CMS leadership announced they were leaving; and the board of education announced they would examine their relationship with a subcontractor.

More on all of this and how it might tie together. President Donald Trump stopped in Gastonia to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley. Trump’s remarks at Gastonia Municipal Airport came a week after Whatley spoke at the Republican midterm convention in Charlotte. According to RealClearPolitics, Democratic nominee Roy Cooper leads Whatley by an average of about 8 percentage points in public opinion polling. The Charlotte City Council may be set to flip a vote where it rescinded support