NCGOP chief Tom Fetzer is asking Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to resign. In a letter sent Thursday to Steele, Fetzer cites what he describes as grassroots rumblings of concern over “allegations of fiscal irresponsibility, management and questionable activities” from the RNC under Steele’s leadership, or maybe that should be lack thereof. Meanwhile, Sarah […]
The Daily Diatribe: The flap over the Texas School Board and its positions on capitalism, creationism, free enterprise and the like is giving the liberals in the media a field day. In a recent Wall Street Journal, an opinion piece written by Thomas Frank opines that the school board is a bunch of bullies intent […]
I’ll be dropping in around 5:30 today to join Tara Servatius – WBT 1110 AM – for a talk on the city’s push for inclusionary zoning.
The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners was slated Tuesday night to discuss the governance structure of the public library system and pay levels for its executive administrators. Instead, the meeting turned into an ambush of the Library Board of Trustees. Commissioners, at times in heated exchanges, berated the trustees for not doing enough to inform […]
Before voting Tuesday night to approve a $10.9-million business investment grant for Siemens Energy Inc., Mecklenburg Commissioner Vilma Leake wanted to know how soon she could start landing jobs at the company for her friends. It turns out, not as soon as she thought. Leake, a Democrat, said she “took some young men out to […]
The Daily Diatribe: In the world of investing, the easiest thing in the world, as a salesman, is to appeal to somebody’s greed. You have all received a phone call in which some stockbroker sitting in a sweatshop in lower Manhattan offers you the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a golden […]
If you think proposals to cram so-called affordable housing into Ballantyne, and now Ayrsley, sparked a firestorm of controversy and gnashing of teeth, just wait until the Democrat-controlled city council’s pitch for inclusionary zoning, currently weaving its way through the council’s housing and neighborhood development and transportation committees, hits the fan. Despite the at-best mixed […]
The Huntersville Town Board on Monday night approved two binding resolutions that request the State of North Carolina to intercede on behalf of citizens and take proactive action to prevent the implementation of the recently passed healthcare legislation. The resolutions, introduced by Republican Commissioner Charles Jeter, were approved by a 3-2 vote, with commissioners Ken […]
The Daily Diatribe: Bill Gross, Pimco’s Chief Investment Officer, on CNBC today said that stock and bond returns will be below normal for years. Calling it the “new normal”, Gross could not be more wrong. Whenever I hear phrases like “the new normal, or “it’s different this time”, I lick my chops. First of all, […]
Or at least you’d think it was from reading the uptown paper of record, which breathlessly proclaimed Monday that “Smog levels may soar into Code Orange range this afternoon” and that “Something is in the air.” Yep, mostly hype and hysteria, along with a wicked dose of unusually high pollen. That’s the greenish-yellow gunk you […]
