Over the years, non-profits have become more and more dependent on government (taxpayer funds) to fund their budgets. Sure enough, the number of non-profits has escalated, staffs have grown and, of course, the need for more funds. We literally have dozens of non-profits in Mecklenburg, each with its own paid staff, many of them with [...]
I stay fairly close to the political action in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and was a little bewildered by some of the comments I’ve seen in response to Tom Ashcraft’s latest HouseGuest column. If any of the candidates running for at-large Mecklenburg County commissioner have put forth the conservative positions listed in Tom’s article, I have not heard [...]
Some things appear too good to be true….but this is true….so please listen up! In 2003, the N.C. legislature joined a growing number of other states, across the country and with General Statute GS 143-64-17 authorized Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) as a method for funding energy related improvements for public buildings, both state and local. [...]
In mid November 2008, shortly after the Obama election and at a time when the entire U.S. economy, for several months, had been rapidly sinking, Professor Peter Brews, Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School (UNC-Chapel Hill), spoke to a luncheon group in Charlotte about the, then current economic situation. Most striking was his opinion [...]
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