Michael Falero

With Baby Yoda, Baby Nut, and other babies taking over, we debate if the Internet is being baby-ified. We also cover a melee online game, a rogue-like involving Greek gods, the finale of Bojack Horseman, TikTok and cool subreddits!

An art installation that visualizes pollution in the air we breathe returns to Charlotte this weekend for a month-long residency.

About 45 residents showed up for a public hearing Thursday night in Belmont. They asked questions about Duke's plans to transfer coal ash from the Allen Steam Station to new, lined landfills. The hearing, held at Stuart Cramer High School, was hosted by the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ officials answered questions from residents about the design of the landfills and how the state would make sure the coal ash is contained. Amy Brown, an activist and Belmont resident, thanked

The Charlotte Convention Center’s Ballroom was a maze of booths filled with companies, professional schools, and government organizations on Thursday. They were there to meet students and recent graduates from historically black colleges and universities for the CIAA career fair. Clayton Turner chatted with students at the NASA booth. His sales pitch: that NASA’s spaceflight and robotics projects benefit everyone. Turner is NASA’s director of Langley Research Center in Virginia. He’s the first

State Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey continued testimony Thursday morning in the federal bribery trial of insurance businessman Greg Lindberg. Lindberg and two of his associates are accused of trying to funnel $2 million to Causey in political contributions in exchange for removing a senior deputy in his office who was part of the regulation of Lindberg's insurance companies. WFAE political reporter Steve Harrison spoke to Michael Falero from the federal courthouse in Charlotte.

Concord City Council will vote Thursday night to offer more than $800,000 in tax incentives to what appears to be a Chinese furniture maker. The company would build a facility on the site of the old Phillip Morris plant. City Council expects the unnamed furniture manufacturer to build multiple facilities on 60 acres of the old Phillip Morris plant. According to the meeting agenda, the city will hold a public hearing and a vote over the deal. The city of Concord would provide the tax incentives

Multiple game developers and Disney are pushing back release dates for their content. Are these delays a good thing for the audience? We also discuss an nearly non-game that Randolf is playing and do a dive deep on Netflix’s the Witcher. That plus some great stuff from TikTok, Reddit, and Paul Rudd.

Opponents of Duke Energy’s request for a proposed 6% rate increase in Western North Carolina dominated a public hearing in Charlotte on Thursday night. Even before the hearing got started, activists from several groups protested outside the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, chanting anti-Duke slogans.

Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather outlined his office’s priorities for the year, after Charlotte recorded 107 homicides in 2019. Wednesday's press conference was the first Merriweather has done specifically at the start of a new year to detail what priorities he would focus on. The district attorney listed four broad priorities, each with multiple parts to them. First, he committed to bringing 20 homicide cases to trial this year. That's up from 13 cases tried last year.

The family of an American Airlines employee who died in an accident in August is suing the airline and the city of Charlotte, blaming longstanding safety issues for his death.

Companies are creating more phones advertised as “foldable,” but they’ve got a lot of kinks in them. And is the technology worth even a good idea for smartphone users? We also talk looter-shooter games and Disney+’s flagship Star Wars show, The Mandalorian (ft. THE Baby Yoda). We round the show up with some of our favorite Internets of the week, like the Queen and a cheeky Reddit prank.

North Carolina is on track to experience the most significant changes to its climate ever by the end of this century, according to a new report.

A homeless nonprofit in Charlotte announced Thursday it expects to start construction soon on a new men’s shelter that will have more beds, privacy, and other services. The announcement follows a $500,000 donation made toward the project by Honeywell, which moved its headquarters to Charlotte in 2019.

We talk about our predictions for the Internet in the new decade, plus what we’re looking forward to in 2020 in terms of gaming, social media, VR, and more. We discuss rogue-like indie games, review Footloose, talk about the reaction to Cats, and a very weird daily YouTube channel.

The federal government’s leading atmospheric research agency published data this week showing 2019 was North Carolina’s hottest year on record.

A meme survey asks what the best memes of the 20110s were – we give our thoughts on the weirdest, funniest, and most impactful memes of the decade. That plus more Jedi: Fallen Order discussion and reviewing Tom Ford’s A Single Man. Good Internet, Best Internet has an AI-created RPG, a weird music lookback of the decades, and more!

Earlier this year, Boy Scouts rebranded as Scouts BSA and allowed girls to join. WFAE visited one of the first girl troops in the region to see how their first year of scouting has gone.

A new greenway stretches behind the homes and shops of the Antiquity neighborhood in Cornelius. At the trailhead is a large, elevated walkway that slopes down to a paved, half-mile trail. Eileen Hume and her husband, Darin, were taking a morning walk on the trail recently.

A new report says North Carolina had the fourth highest budget cuts in the country over the last decade when it comes to environmental protection. Between 2008 and 2018, North Carolina’s state government cut funding for its environmental agency’s programs meant to reduce air and water pollution by 34%. Funding went from $136.3 million to $90 million dollars, when adjusting for inflation. The state also cut its staff levels by 35%. That data comes in a new report by the Environmental Integrity P

We do a rapid news roundup – TikTok security concerns, Disney vs Netflix content approaches, Facebook Gaming and Elon Musk. We’re each playing RPGs, including lots of Star Wars, and in You’ve Gotta See This we talk about a terrible James Bond movie. Stick around for the Good Internet, Best Internet, which features great TikTok users and Baby Yoda!