State lawmakers opened their legislative short session in Raleigh yesterday with a wild card, floating a bid to bring back video poker that could potentially raise a pile of new cash – about $350 million for the first year and up to $576 million by the third year. Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, […]
In today’s top story, Matthews native, Butler Bulldog alum and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covergirl Brooklyn Decker has been crowned the second most beautiful woman in the world by Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 List. Additional verbiage not required.
Despite an encouraging report from the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association, which showed homes sales up 25 percent last month compared to April 2009, the Queen City still got get kicked to the curb by MainStreet. MainStreet.com, that is. The consumer website recently compiled a list of cities where the recession seems to be fading and […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones says he won’t be recommending raises this year for county employees, but is keeping the possibility of a fat bonus for himself on the table. And isn’t that exactly the kinds of inspiring news you want to be reading, if you’re a county employee burning the candle at both ends […]
A fractious Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to approve a schools budget that includes plans to slash upwards of 600 teacher and teacher assistant positions, implement a pay-to-play scheme for middle- and high school sports, increase class sizes while shrinking transportation options to popular magnet schools, and have students pay fees […]
Submitted by M. Townsend I recently read a piece about the oil spill disaster in the Gulf. Predictably, it was lambasting the efforts of environmentalists – reactionaries though many of them may be – to “put the nail in the coffin” of offshore drilling in the wake of this crisis. They want to seal the fate of […]
Less than 12 hours before the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education is slated to approve a recommended budget that slashes teacher positions, guts teacher assistants positions, and further reduces funding for campus security associates, a .22-caliber handgun brought to school by a third-grader was discharged inside a classroom at University Meadows Elementary. No injuries were reported. […]
The Daily Diatribe: I thought transparency was supposed to be the new buzzword on Wall Street. After last week’s 1,000 point, 20-minute meltdown, one would have thought that we would have already captured the culprit, doused him or her in tar and feathers, and gotten about our business. Instead, the SEC, lead by Sheila Bair, […]
I can count on one hand – OK, maybe one or two fingers – the number of times I’ve agreed politically with Susan Burgess. She’s a raging liberal and hardcore leftist who pushes an agenda that embraces expansive and expensive government. That said, Burgess always finds time to return phone calls from reporters, is willing […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools loves themselves a good media briefing, the typically anti-adversarial, weekly lovefests debuted a few years ago by Superintendent Peter Gorman. It’s a swift way for Gorman & Co. to pick up the remnants of the latest school board meeting to set an agenda and drive feel-good stories that, for the most, local media […]
