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Queen City Stimulus Flush
The City of Charlotte managed to land about $57 million in its scramble for federal stimulus money, but one request from the utilities department got flushed down the toilet. Literally. Local officials had applied to the state, which administered distribution of the federal stimulus funds, for about $750,00 to pay for a toilet replacement program. […]
The Ghazi Reval Discount
Interesting sidebar to the uptown EpiCentre foreclosure and how it could directly impact your wallet when the county comes knocking next year with its property revaluation, and by extension bode ominously for the county’s continuing financial implosion. Jeff Taylor lays out how Afshin Ghazi, delinquent last year on paying EpiCentre’s $600,000 property tax bill, was […]
Yearning For The Brink
Based on America’s economy today versus where it was 18 months ago, before Obama “brought it back from the brink” – I prefer the “brink.” Now that we can actually measure the results of Obama’s economic policies, it seems perfectly clear that America has been on the wrong track and is far worse off today. […]
Move Along, Nothing To See Here
Certainly not any evidence of willful misconduct by Gov. Beverly Perdue’s campaign, or at least none that the lead investigator for the State Board of Elections could find. The reason? Um, that would be because Elections Board Chairman Larry Leake, a Democrat and long-time political ally of Perdue, ordered the lead investigator not to interview […]
Racial Quotas and Financial Reform
What does racial diversity have to do with financial reform? Plenty, according to this article from Real Clear Markets, which dissects a largely ignored, but major piece of the proposed federal financial regulation bill: In addition to this bill’s well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at […]
The Jacobsen Money Pit
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.” The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value […]
The Hidden Price Tag Of Taxes
Little is said about why a larger government decreases economic growth, although symptoms of this are regularly reported. In July 12 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson report on the Swedish experiment in socialism and its effect on that economy. For comparative purposes the gentlemen went back to 1960 when […]
Price Of NC Sheepskin Set To Explode
Good thing no money to cover the cost of the General Assembly’s wild spending and bond binge on capital projects for the UNC system will be coming from tuition. Otherwise, tuition fees would be skyrocketing. Phew! Dodged a major bullet – um, nevermind. At least legislators have a long-term plan on how to pay the […]
Full Court Press
UNC-TV has backed itself into a tenuous position that could have devastating impact for journalists across the state – at least the ones who work for a public broadcasting system and, by extension, are considered state employees. It started when the General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary 2 Committee issued subpoenas to UNC-TV and two of its […]
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