Charlotte on Stage during the DNC, Thursday p.m.

DNC causing price-gouging in Charlotte?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/dnc-prices-soar_n_1860812.html

A Kansas delegate wonders why Charlotte calls its downtown "uptown''
http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/dispatches-from-dnc/2012/sep/5/as-kansas-delegates-explore-charlotte-mi/

View from Vermont: Sun Belt a more optimistic place;
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20120906/OPINION/709069973/1018/OPINION

Someone missed a great chance to sell a lot of balloons:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/09/05/2676748/a-dampened-tradition-no-balloon.html

Nothing like a good Lincoln impersonator
http://blogs.fayobserver.com/campaign2012/September-2012/DNC--Democrats-Mostly-Happy-as-President-Obama-Com

Mother Jones on the contrast in the two conventions:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/comparing-republican-democratic-conventions-tampa-charlotte

LA Times: 2 1/2 media members for every delegate:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-dnc-media-20120905,0,7857371.story

Variety on actors' presence in Charlotte for the DNC:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118058755