If a qualifier of good art is irony, Mecklenburg County received a wicked return on investment. Among myriad construction projects that have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for public art are two libraries currently operating on limited days and reduced hours because of budget cuts. Two bronze tree sculptures, with a price […]
And guess who’s paying for it. In case there wasn’t enough evidence that the federal government has completely gone off the rails of fiscal sanity, let’s toss spending nearly a half-million dollars to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts into the mix. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of […]
Here’s what happened the last time there was a Social Security ‘crisis’ in 1983, when incoming payroll tax receipts were just about to go below the amount of expected benefit payments going out: * Alan Greenspan was appointed to chair an august national commission to ‘Save Social Security!’. * Your payroll taxes went up. Way […]
Not content with throwing around copious amounts of cash in the form of so-called business investment grants to lure brick-and-mortar companies to North Carolina, legislators have upped the ante for Hollywood. The General Assembly approved a bill this year that turbo-charges tax breaks for the film industry, skyrocketing the amount of money available to be […]
Over the years, non-profits have become more and more dependent on government (taxpayer funds) to fund their budgets. Sure enough, the number of non-profits has escalated, staffs have grown and, of course, the need for more funds. We literally have dozens of non-profits in Mecklenburg, each with its own paid staff, many of them with […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons The Charlotte Folk Society and Storytellers Guild celebrate summer with their annual Ice Cream Social at Historic Rosedale Plantation on Sunday, July 11. [nggallery id=55]
Photos by: Glen Simmons Revelers celebrate at the Bastille Day Festival at Extravaganza Depot on Sunday, July 11. [nggallery id=54]
Could somebody explain to me again why we’re spending $37 million on a 1.5-mile leg of streetcar – $12 million of which is local money that could be spent on, I don’t know, little things like fixing the city’s decaying infrastructure.
Photos by: Glen Simmons The Charlotte Roller Girls All-Stars dropped a tough match to Cape Fear on Sunday, July 11, at The Grady Cole Center. [nggallery id=53]
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