An organized group of people waving signs and shouting slogans: the latest Tea Party rally? Nope, that would have generated plenty of media coverage, complete with the predictable, inflammatory and wholly inaccurate descriptions of angry, enraged and out-of-control protestors. In this case, which the mainstream media seems to have largely ignored, it was an unruly […]
Between feasting on bites of taxpayer-funded meals at their dinner meeting tonight, city councilmembers are scheduled to take a virtual stroll on a public art gallery crawl, to include works that were completed this year and others that are on tap for the 2011 proposed public art work plan. Total cost: more than $800,000. Included […]
No mas, el Presidente Calderon – not in our house! Before you decide to come back into our house telling us how to run our country, clean up your own mess back in Mexico. If “your people,” as you refer to them, need work so bad that they have to come to America illegally, why […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 team hustles to take First Place at the annual NASCAR Pit Crew Challenge. [nggallery id=41]
Submitted by Dean Smith: A parable (of sorts) for my liberal friends: There once was a man whose home was falling down around him. In addition, the household was chaos, full of drunkenness and drugs and fighting. One day the man’s son decided he could take no more of this chaos, so he moved in, […]
If anybody needed proof positive that Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s criminal justice system is little but a revolving door, this week stands as damning evidence: Five homicides in five days and in almost every case the accused killers, as well as some of their victims, have extensive criminal records. Consider the most recent killing, where the body of […]
Attorneys for accused cop killer Demeatrius Montgomery have been trying to use the so-called Racial Justice Act to further delay his trail, which has already been lingering for years. The law allows judges to consider statistical evidence and data that suggests race was a factor in prosecutors seeking the death penalty on a disproportionate number […]
On May 20, 2010, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (the first in the colonies) was celebrated with the unveiling of a statue called “The Spirit of Mecklenburg,” which captures Captain Jack Johnson’s ride to deliver the Meck Dec to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. To learn more about this event, and the “Meck […]
Leave it to the Democrat-controlled state Senate to pick right up where Gov. Bev Perdue left off, rolling out a budget that is filled with fantasy spending and does nothing to address the financial crisis North Carolina faces. Instead, the $19-billion monstrosity skirts any responsibility by pulling magic money from myriad hats, refusing to deal […]
Before the 1986 election, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) was five members, all elected at large. Candidates were sometimes concentrated from affluent areas, and incumbents seeking re-election enjoyed the normal advantages. Nonetheless, this arrangement did allow voters to participate in selecting the entire Board or, as sometimes was the case, in “throwing the […]
