Tuesday brought a round of electoral good news for folks whose faith had maybe begun to waver about ever breaking the stranglehold that the status quo has wrapped around politics. In several high-profile, closely-watched races, outsider candidates toppled entrenched incumbents. Rand Paul, a first-time candidate with deep roots in the Tea Party movement, defeated Kentucky’s […]
Americans once loved nothing more than a good fight. But times have changed and our scrappiness has surrendered to a love of conspiracy. Examples are myriad. Reagan cut a deal with Iran’s revolutionary government to detain American hostages until after the 1980 election. Neill Armstrong walked on a movie set and the Illuminati stores space […]
Mecklenburg County employees – at least the ones who still have jobs – would go without pay hikes for the second year in a row, under the budget County Manager Harry Jones rolled out Tuesday night for the upcoming fiscal year. And while Jones cautioned that the pay freeze could put the county at risk […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones quoted and referenced everybody and everything from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Teddy Roosevelt to the P.O.W. Stockdale Paradox, in unveiling a recommended budget that avoids a tax increase, cuts $81 million in programs and services, axes nearly 400 employees, and left Jones, in his words, standing on tippy toes, peering […]
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continues issuing pink slips to hundreds of teachers, and officials brace for the looming possibility of wholesale school closings next year, the district finds itself trapped in pricey long-term leases for administrative offices scattered around the county and is bartering away millions of dollars for even more new office space at a […]
It’s not the tens of thousands of grassroots conservatives who show up at Tea Party protests around the country that have President Obama and the entire Democrat Party worried – it’s the millions of conservative Tea Party supporters who don’t show up at those events that have them scared to death. Picture the Tea Party […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons WWII buffs and re-enactors stormed Latta Plantation over the weekend for a living history lesson. [nggallery id=38]
Along, apparently, with whatever he’s been smoking. Sports Illustrated’s gridiron guru, Peter King, has the Carolina Panther’s ranked as the eighth-best team in the NFL heading into the season and foresees a Wild Card playoff appearance, with a legitimate run to the Big Dance. King also predicts this will be John Fox’s last year prowling […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Revelers celebrate for a good cause on Saturday, May 15, at The St. Anthony’s Festa Italiana Ciao for Charities at Camden Grandview. [nggallery id=37]
Photos by: Glen Simmons The NRA Convention rolls into town with a record crowd, star speakers, and loads of excitement. [nggallery id=35]
