Remember a few years back when the Board of Education approved a new anti-bullying policy for CMS, when Larry Gauvreau and Kaye McGarry voted against it because they said it was being used as a way to gain a foothold for promoting and advancing a pro-homosexual agenda in classrooms. Gauvreau and McGarry were lambasted as […]
I opened my local newspaper recently to discover articles describing how our area is on the take. Grants and subsidies are being requested and doled out to the tune of thousands of dollars. One article stated, “the city and 29 businesses and nonprofit groups across the state learned Tuesday they would receive the coveted aid.” […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina History comes alive at Latta Plantation with a Revolutionary War reenactment. [nggallery id=75]
For years, I’ve been suspicious that they must be putting tranquilizers in our drinking water. How else can you explain the voters of Charlotte nodding off, election after election, while those entrusted to do the people’s business have been thumbing their noses at the public, lining their own pockets and pockets of their cronies, all […]
Again. This time in Delaware and New York, where upset wins by insurgent candidates in Republican primaries have the GOP ruling class with its collective panties in a wad. The MSM is also approaching meltdown mode, jumping on the bandwagon to echo party pronouncement’s that Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware spells certain doom for a […]
As if the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department hasn’t already found itself mired in myriad controversies and concerns during the tumultuous tenure of Chief Rodney Monroe, there’s more potential trouble brewing on the horizon. Investigative blogger and professional agitator Cedar Posts roots out the latest swirl surrounding CMPD, this one involving Monroe cohort Vicki Foster, who has […]
When the United States was formed one of the goals was to enhance the ability of men to operate private businesses to their own advantage. Many of the rules in the Constitution are set down to enhance that ability. In seeming contradiction to that idealism, today we find laws written that are designed to help […]
In case there was any doubt about who is actually in charge down at City Hall, this should clear things up nicely. Hint: it ain’t the potted plants sitting behind the council dais. No, that would be city staff chieftains Curt “We’ll get back to you on that, councilman” Walton and Mac “Give me my […]
[From the Editor] I had the opportunity yesterday to sit down with Loren Spivack, the Free Market Warrior, for a discussion on his recently released book “The New Democrat: The Parody for the Tea Party Movement”; a hilarious look at the first two years of the Obama Presidency told through the guise of a famed […]
Get a load of Mayor Anthony Foxx smacking down a group of boosters who showed up at city council’s Monday night dinner meeting to do a little cheerleading for the north Meck commuter rail line. “I’m growing increasingly irritated with conversation I’m hearing about whether Charlotte considers the north corridor a priority,” Foxx scolded before […]
