In observing the Charlotte City Council debate over the streetcar I was struck by the divide that exists in our city. After a restless evening I am convinced Republicans are largely responsible. Preparing my presentation for the city council convinced me more than ever that rail transit is antiquated technology that can’t compete with much […]
Just one of the myriad interesting items the federal government is spending your hard-earned money to study: $181,406 to be exact. That’s how much the National Institutes of Health shelled out for a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail. Seriously. And that’s the least […]
President Obama is a peerless liar. He is so consistent that one only need know he is speaking to know he is lying. Take, for instance, his recent quote about what have become known as the Bush tax cuts. Prez says in part: “… the same tax cuts that have added hundreds of billions of […]
The Charlotte City Council on Monday night delivered the first installment of a pricey political payoff, when it voted to accept a $25-million federal grant to help build the city’s coveted streetcar project. The total price tag for the route’s first leg, which will stretch all of 1.5 miles, from Time Warner Cable Arena to […]
What federal officials are calling a “technical error” could potentially slam the brakes on the city’s plan to extend the Lynx Blue Line to UNC-Charlotte. Local officials had applied for $40 million in federal money to fund the final piece of an engineering/design study required for the $1-billion light-rail extension project. Last week a U.S. […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Revelers soak up some fun at Weddstock, the weekly concert series held every Friday night through Aug. 13 at Hunter Farm in Weddington. [nggallery id=58]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Beth Chorneau headlined a great concert Saturday night to support the MojoRiding Cycling Team’s fundraising effort for the 2010 24 Hours of Booty ride, to be held July 30-31 in Myers Park. [nggallery id=57]
I could not let this propaganda from the Uptown Crowd’s disinformation arm go unanswered. Instead of using quotes, the verbatim text directly from the Observer editorial is unbracketed; and is copyright by the Charlotte Observer! My responses and comments to this are in [blue brackets]. The title of the Observer editorial was “Streetcar is sound […]
One of the bigger questions left hanging from the termination letter that the N.C. Department of Correction issued to Councilmember Warren Turner, who was fired this week from his job as a state probation officer, isn’t whether the action was justified, but rather why it hadn’t been taken earlier, or whether it would have been […]
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