They’re not officially running as a slate, but they sure sounded on the same page. Republican candidates for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners at a Thursday afternoon presser blasted the board’s current Democrat majority for fiscal irresponsibility that has left taxpayers tapped and derelict management that has led Mecklenburg into perilous straits. At-large candidates […]
Fresh off approving a budget that includes some $71 million in cuts and delivers pink slips for scores of county employees and schoolteachers, Mecklenburg County could find itself hit by another fiscal wallop: losing upwards of $17 million courtesy of a state money grab. The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners has fired off an […]
Famed theoretician of economic thought Adam Smith, in his landmark work “The Wealth of Nations,” published in 1776, introduced us to the concept of the “invisible hand” to describe the actions of entrepreneurs in competitive free markets. As the Library of Economics and Liberty puts it: “Someone earning money by his own labor benefits himself. […]
Mecklenburg commissioners approved a $1.35-billion budget that calls for about $75 million in cuts to programs and services and includes pink slips for nearly 300 county employees. That was Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, many of those same commissioners were jet-setting to Boston for a three-day junket of fine dining, site seeing, and luxuriating in […]
Not content with pulling a $9.5-million rabbit out of the hat to bolster county revenue projections, county commissioners on Tuesday night worked some more money magic when they trimmed County Manager Harry Jones’ total pay package and simultaneously tossed him a nearly $27,000 pay hike. Commissioners nixed Jones’ performance bonus from future total compensation packages, […]
And it was friendly-fire, coming from ultra-leftist MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Real Clear Politics has the video here. Some pertinent shots taken at President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the oil spill: Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.” Matthews: […]
On the heels of city officials recently voting to fork over $1.4 million to bail out libraries and prevent the wholesale shuttering of branch locations, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night extended another dose of largess when it approved an agreement that will save a handful of county jobs. The council authorized City Manager […]
Tune in tonight at 8:00pm on just about any channel you turn to, as Frankie, played by Barack Obama, hits the beach and explains to America how he’s going to take his boot off of Eric Von Zipper’s neck and plant it on his backside. Von Zipper, played by British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward, has […]
Twenty-one states have issued “Choose Life” license plates. Four states have approved the plates and legislation is pending in sixteen others. Where does North Carolina fit in, and why do the plates draw opposition in some circles? Legislation to issue a pro-life license plate was introduced in both the North Carolina Senate (S210) and House […]
Faced with an $800-million shortfall in its operating budget and a state unemployment rate that tops 10 percent, the N.C. Senate on Monday night voted 46-0 to approve $542 million in construction bonds for a variety of projects scattered throughout the UNC system. Some of the big-ticket items up for grabs: a $45-million football complex […]
