Recent articles in the Charlotte Observer and in other newspapers around the state are asking the question of how much does the public need to know. Or should they be allowed to know. This is an area that I believe could be vital in saving the taxpayers of our county countless thousands of dollars. First, […]
Did you know that governments have credit scores just like you and me? Yep, it’s true; and just like us a government’s credit score is critical to its overall financial health. When my wife and I refinanced our home some years ago, the first thing our potential bank did was to pull our three credit […]
Wet t-shirts are all that’s missing from the wanton binge-spending spree our Democrat-controlled board of commissioners has blazed under the leadership of Chairperson Jennifer Roberts. There’s simply no other way to put it, which is what made Roberts’s retort at this week’s commissioners’ meeting, that Democrats weren’t wholly responsible for the financial mess in which […]
The April Meck YR meeting will occur on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at Presto restaurant in Charlotte. (Presto is located at 445 West Trade Street, Charlotte, NC 28202.) It starts with a Happy Hour at 6 pm and then the program begins at 7 pm. The meeting features a forum with the Republican candidates running […]
Hat tip to Cindy Spyker and CAUTION for passing this along. Americans for Prosperity is planning for multiple busses to leave NC on Saturday morning to make a noon rally in DC to stand up against “healthcare” reform! The Charlotte bus will be departing at 4:30am from the park and ride lot of Central Church […]
Words have meaning, especially when you’re talking about libraries. So how about rewording an uptown paper of record poll, posted in response to news that the county is closing 12 libraries and cutting 148 jobs because of budget cuts. The poll predictably asks: Would you be willing to pay higher taxes to keep libraries open? […]
As we predicted, there’s movement afoot at CMS to tweak and/or consolidate at least some of the school system’s district offices that currently anchor so-called learning communities scattered across the county. Confirmation of such came about by pure happenstance: I recently found myself sitting beside a top-ranking member of CMS’ executive staff and overheard him […]
So the last couple of days I’ve been hearing about the demon pass and Lugosi. What the heck is the demon pass? Another name for Devil’s Highway? Maybe it’s a football term? The 180-degree opposite of Doug Flutie’s Immaculate Reception at Boston College? Lugosi, I thought. Bela Lugosi? And then it came to me…people weren’t […]
In an email sent over the weekend to all 11 members of the Charlotte City Council, Mayor Anthony Foxx warned his colleagues to not sexually harass city staff. The letter makes no reference to either who might be doing the alleged harassing, or who is being harassed. Even with a $70,000-a-year spokesperson, Foxx is declining […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners will have to wield a double-edge sword as they carve their way through the budget process. First they need to trim about $20 million in cuts from the current-year budget to bring it in line with tumbling revenues; then turn around and plan for hacking up to $95 million in targeted cuts […]
