After nearly eight hours of deliberations over two days, the jury in the Demeatrius Montgomery trial today returned a unanimous verdict: guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, life in prison, no parole, for the 2007 brutal slayings of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. We’ll have updates as they become available.
UPDATE: The Board of Education voted Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, to scuttle plans for shuttering Chantilly and Highland. ———————– From Sept. 30: I’m not saying Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ latest plans of upheaval for continuous improvement have anything to do with social engineering. Here’s what I’m saying: Chantilly Elementary and Highland Mill Elementary are two Montessori schools […]
Like, I don’t know, congenital lying; how else to explain the complete disconnect between statements being made by Superintendent Peter Gorman and top CMS brass, in the wake of the hand grenade recommendations lobbed in the public’s lap to close a dozen schools and ensure wholesale upheaval at scores more. First we have Gorman on […]
Senator Kay Hagan has sent a letter to President Barack Hussein Obama demanding that the payment of Pigford Settlements start again. What is the Pigford Settlement? It was a plan to pay approximately 1,000 to 4,000 black farmers who had been discriminated against by the Department of Agriculture. At the time of the settlement there […]
As election day gets closer, politicians seem to closely guard the words they utter in speeches and debates so as not to give their opponents fodder for newspaper headlines that could swing tight races in their favor. The Associated Press’ Mike Baker recently reported on the current Social Security policy position of Senate candidates Richard […]
Another shiny new thing for uptown! And judging by the packed-house attendance at a community forum to update progress on Charlotte’s streetcar project, the excitement and anticipation is palpable. Check out the video from News 14. And it’s evident that our city’s braintrust not only remains completely clueless about where to find $1.5 million to […]
I was initially researching the subject of gerrymandering, a subject that crosses my mind periodically when I ponder how career politicians keep getting elected in spite of voters’ dissatisfaction with them. Despite what we were all taught in school on the subject of gerrymandering, it is alive and well and has been manipulating our electoral […]
In North Carolina you have to pass a gun safety class before you can get a concealed weapons permit. I took my gun safety class from Rick, a retired Charlotte, North Carolina, policeman. Rick gave me a card with his rules imprinted on it to keep in my billfold to refer to in case I ever […]
I would like some confirmation that Barbara Jackson is really a conservative. When I googled her, I found that she was not only listed as a democrat, but as a republican and at best a very warm progressive. Will you please confirm to me that she is not a progressive. We cannot assume because someone […]
Thanks to excellent coverage from PunditHouse on the pressing need for county commission debates, along with this scolding editorial from the Observer, Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts and her Democrat colleagues changed their minds and agreed to debate Republican county commission candidates during a forum hosted by Speak Out Charlotte. You can hardly blame Jennifer and […]
