Pictures by Glen Simmons of Event Images Carolina. View his website for additional shots. Charlotte saw a different kind of traffic in uptown on Wednesday around lunchtime as NASCAR stock cars rumbled east on 3rd Street, then north on College Street, then ending at the Epicentre as NASCAR’s Parade of Power took over the city. [nggallery […]
One thing we do know about economics and the effects on the federal budget: ‘If people ain’t working, they ain’t paying taxes! Income, corporate, payroll, excise, capital gains…nothing, nada, zippo!’ Any convoluted scheme to raise taxes on this group or another is doomed to abysmal failure if people are not able to find a job […]
I can’t think of a more appropriate venue to read and comprehend a writing about Appalachia than while overlooking the rolling mountains near Summersville, West Virginia, with cool breezes blowing down
After 11 days of deliberations, the federal jury stuck deciding the fate of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial apparently hit a wall Wednesday, sending the judge a note indicating they can’t reach a verdict – at least not on all the counts Blago is facing. What that means is anybody’s guess; even the attorneys […]
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[Editor’s Note- See Adam Love’s comment below the story for information on how to meet Gov Johnson during his trip to Charlotte on August 18.] As the Governor of New Mexico, I spent eight years dealing with issues unique and specific to our state – addressing immigration, education, the privatization of our prison system, ways […]
Would be nice to know how the Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners is feeling about the turbo-charged revenue projections it concocted to beef up the county budget, what with an ongoing commercial sector real estate implosion; home foreclosures in Mecklenburg tops in the state; the Charlotte-area’s average per-capita personal income tumbling nearly […]
Former WBTV ace reporter Mike Cozza, who most recently fell victim to county budget cuts when he was axed as media relations go-to guy for Mecklenburg Parks and Rec, uses an Op-Ed in the uptown paper of record to effectively dismantle the silly notion that a global recession was the main culprit behind Mecklenburg’s budget […]
And smiling the whole way, with officials from the NASCAR Hall of Fame claiming no reasons for concern despite attendance numbers that have failed to keep pace with even lowered expectations. HOF officials had originally ballyhooed a projected 800,000 visitors for the hall’s first year, which was subsequently trimmed to 575K; yet trends show the […]
And, shocking, hitting Uncle Sammie up for a few more billion dollars, on top of the billions that have already been gobbled up with little chance of ever being repaid – a total approaching $148 billion. Continuing the grim news of the Obama Administration’s self-proclaimed Summer of Recovery, mortgage-finance mutant Freddie Mac is reporting a […]
