Speak Out Charlotte is still soliciting questions to ask at-large county commission candidates in their debate, slated for 7:00 tonight. Submit questions via Facebook – search “Speak Out Charlotte – 2010 County Debate Questions”. UPDATE: Never mind. Be quiet, citizen. Pay your taxes and move along.
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Shameless. This from NewsBusters: On Thursday’s World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ran as a “news” item a White House-produced video — complete with schmaltzy background music — of President Obama taking a phone call from a cancer patient who, Sawyer informed viewers “is now able to get health insurance” thanks to ObamaCare. …. The […]
Ten, maybe five years ago, I wouldn’t have thought this possible in Charlotte: a smoking ban in outdoor public places. Today? Oh, yeah, sooner or later some bright bulb on city council, likely at the “encouragement” of Center City Partners, will bring this front and center. For the common good, of course. From NPR, on […]
The Richter scale measures the magnitude of subterranean movements. But any recent seismic activity is more attributable to our Founding Fathers rolling in their graves than to tectonic shifts. Free speech has been sacrificed and it’s doubtful the Founders would be pleased. Molly Norris is a former cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly newspaper. I say […]
There seems to me a contradiction in the position of many social conservatives. While they push strongly against abortion laws and against homosexual marriage, prostitution or recreational drug use, they advocate for individual property rights. In a philosophically consistent moral system, it seems the two positions would be mutually exclusive. An examination of these positions […]
Mecklenburg County’s jobless numbers budged slightly in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from July’s 10.8 percent, with the county totaling 413,945 jobs compared to the previous month’s 411,416. The incremental good news is tempered, though, when compared to earlier in the year, when Mecklenburg totaled just shy of 415,000 jobs with an […]
What could possibly go wrong with this, big government tied into big business with a direct link to citizens’ primary source of energy? That’s essentially the concept lurking behind the new “Envision: Charlotte” initiative, designed to implement a so-called smart grid uptown, with a target to cut energy use by 20 percent in about 60 […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Events Images Carolina Revelers celebrate for a good cause at the Third Annual AdamFest, to benefit the Adam Faulk Tanksley Foundation. [nggallery id=78]
Prosecutors in the Demetrius Montgomery case are slowly laying the bricks to create a path around the reasonable doubt standard and, they hope, straight to a life sentence for the 2007 slayings of police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. The latest: testimony that gunshot residue was present on Montgomery’s palms; an empty holster and […]
