Photos by: Glen Simmons The Charlotte Checkers unveiled their new uniforms Friday at the Draught for the Draft party at WildWings Cafe uptown, to celebrate the team’s new role as the Carolina Hurricanes top affiliate and in preparation for its upcoming inaugural American Hockey League season. [nggallery id=48]
The red ink has barely dried on Mecklenburg County’s recently approved budget but commissioners might soon find themselves back at the chopping block looking for more places to cut, if a proposal being floated by state legislators comes to pass. In a shell game of grand proportions, the N.C. General Assembly is looking to withhold […]
What are the latest honey pots of political patronage worth these days in Mecklenburg County? No chump change, according to the most recent disclosure of compensation for members of various advisory boards, ranging from the high profile and controversial ABC Board to the more mundane zoning board of adjustments. Advocates of advisory boards contend they […]
In a classic case of the inmates running the asylum, an outspoken critic of enforcement of illegal immigration laws by local authorities has been picked by the Obama Administration to coordinate partnerships between federal and local officials dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. Harold Hurtt begins his new job next month as the director […]
It seems like it is never going to end, doesn’t it? It is getting to be ‘Kind of a Drag’, as the Buckinghams used to sing. There are lots of reasons why this recession is taking so long to break out of. We happen to think that the Obama White House and Congress have played […]
After leaving upwards of $11 million in potential advertising revenue on the table over the last decade, when former Transit Czar Ron Tober and the erstwhile braintrust of the Metropolitan Transit Commission perpetuated the charade that exterior ads on city buses was visual clutter that would ugly up Center City, it appears that commercialism might […]
Those who have known me for any length of time know that I am a fan of drop down dirty, punishing, bloody primary elections. The real politics, regardless of party affiliation, is conducted while determining a party’s nominee. It has frankly always astounded me that primary elections have relatively lower turnout than their general election […]
A Letter from Michael Kelly, Founder of “We the People NC”: Friends of the Tea Party and friends of the Republican Party, In a period of just six weeks we learned more about human nature than most of us would ever wish for. We learned that we are capable of going to great lengths […]
It’s been often said that, “elections have consequences.” While that’s true, a careful analysis reveals that the most important policies, those that govern our economy and foreign policy, don’t substantially change, regardless of which party is in power. What follows are 50 statistics that illustrate just how close the U.S. economy is to total implosion, […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Summer Pops at SouthPark celebrates Father’s Day with music and fun. [nggallery id=47]
