With little debate and virtually no fireworks, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved some technical amendments to its existing anti-bullying policy that sparked community uproar when it was originally adopted in 2008. CMS already had rules on the book that prohibited bullying when it codified its stand as formal policy two years […]
If federal deficits are nightmares, Freddy Krueger is leading the parade for the one headed our way. According to the latest from the Congressional Budget Office, President Obama’s budget would add nearly $10 trillion – trillion, with a T – to the national debt over the next decade. Even more troubling, the CBO estimates that […]
A long-range transportation plan that received approval from the city council Monday night assumes that Charlotte will have two more rail-transit corridors up and running by 2025, which coupled with some long-delayed road-building projects will help the Charlotte region attain air-quality levels mandated by the federal government. One glaring problem with the plan, of course, […]
All it apparently takes to shave more than $250,000 off a government project is for a few dozen people to show up at some city council meetings and a few dozen more sending angry e-mails to elected officials and the media. At least that seems to be the case for a controversial sidewalk project that the […]
It’s difficult enough trying to hold members of the Charlotte City Council accountable when a majority of them occupy seats sprung from grossly gerrymandered districts that virtually guarantee their re-election every two years. The task would become all the more insurmountable with a move to four-year terms, a switch some councilmembers have advocated. Fortunately, that […]
Despite pouring tens of millions of dollars of public money into uptown to help fuel growth in the private sector, the wildly optimistic dreams and schemes that boosters touted for Center City have fallen woefully short of predictions. When the uptown lunch bunch was huddling over linen napkins and pewter goblets during the boom of […]
Like so many others, I was nearly paralyzed with anxiety last spring as the economic landscape was darkened by recession, massive layoffs, and corporate implosion. As a public school teacher, I thought I was in a ‘recession-proof’ industry. I was wrong. Even the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system (to which I am still faithfully employed) was not […]
Amidst all the hubbub about Senator Jim Bunning holding up the unemployment extension bill last week was one ‘inconvenient truth’ the news media always failed to point out when they were throwing beanballs to his head just like, well…just like the All-Star Phillies pitcher, Jim Bunning did to any opposing batter who was crowding ‘his’ […]
Please join the North Carolina Campaign for Liberty two weeks from today, on Saturday, March 27th at 5pm as it hosts the Charlotte Appleseed barbecue! We’ll be welcoming Mike Stineman, the North Carolina State Coordinator of the Appleseed Project, an ongoing program of the Revolutionary War Veterans’ Association. Mike will be speaking to us about […]
UNCC drops a heartbreaker to Richmond Spiders 89-84 in overtime. The Niners’ A-10 1st round tourney game is at UNCC Tuesday at 7:00, opponent TBA. Photos by: Stan Cochrane [nggallery id=11]
