The Charlotte Mercury
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Sixteen publications. One codebase
We Built Our Own, No. 14. A new publication is a row in a table and a DNS record.
One database is the whole company
We Built Our Own, No. 13. Every article, page, person, transcript and image, in one place.
Half a second, found in the layout
We Built Our Own, No. 09. 542 milliseconds to 208. Measure before you optimize.
Email we own
We Built Our Own, No. 04. One send path for every domain. No tracking sold to anyone.
Two weeks in March
We Built Our Own, No. 02. 813 articles, 7,124 images, one platform. Built by one publisher and an AI.
Three WordPress blogs and a rented app
We Built Our Own, No. 01. Where Mercury Local started, and why it could not stay there.
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Charlotte Council Approves Both Faith in Housing Rezonings.
Council Member LaWana Mayfield, the architect of Charlotte's Faith in Housing initiative, voted against a Faith in Housing petition Monday night. Both rezonings passed. The second carried on the bare minimum: six yes votes, no mayor in the chair.