Denial, that is, which seems to be running deep and wide these days, as evidenced by the giddy and delusional optimism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisting that Democrats are better positioned than Republicans with voters coming down the home stretch. Her response to Charlie Rose’s reality-based observation that “95 House races are in play, […]
So says the grassroots, good-government advocacy group StrengthenCharlotte, offering a plethora of compelling reasons for why voters should reject the city’s $204-million bond ask at the polls. The real surprise: an across-the-board thumbs-down on all three bond fronts, which appear on ballots as individual issues: $157 million for transportation; $32 million for neighborhood improvement; and […]
For the first time in recent memory the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), in concert with county staff, is looking at how to be reasonable about the money they spend on capital projects. This is historic. Never before has the majority of the BOCC or county staff concerned themselves with how much they spent […]
The U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights under the law to each citizen. Period. As history would confirm, people in power skew the laws to enhance their own power, gain votes, assuage their own egos, and, in our last 250 years, try to circumvent the U.S. Constitution. In my lifetime I’ve seen the powerful in government […]
Superintendent Peter Gorman could have used part or all of a $250,000 grant he received earlier this year, from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, to help plug a funding gap for school athletics, or to buy some new books for kids, or training for teachers, or – heck, just about anything. The grant money, which was […]
In what has become a veritable county government tradition, a task force that was created to find ways to save money needs more money. This time around, it’s The Future of the Library Task Force, which was formed, ostensibly, to find ways that a system rocked by budget cuts this year could operate more efficiently […]
Got this handy-dandy new vote tracker in an email yesterday from the good folks at the Civitas Institute. It’s a nifty way to keep pace with running totals on a daily basis, for anybody without anything better to do like, I don’t know, watching the Rangers clobber the Yankees. According to the Civitas tracker, we […]
I just heard today that there are some ‘old time, good ol’ boy Republicans’ in Washington (who aren’t up for re-election yet) who are already calling for the Republicans to ‘reach across the aisle and compromise with the democrats’ to get things done in Washington after November 2nd. These ‘elites’ are riding the coattails of […]
This just in from the Fact is Stranger than Fiction Department: President Barack Obama will appear on an episode of the popular “Mythbusters” television show, scheduled to be aired Dec. 8 on the Discovery Channel. The episode, which has already been taped, has The Chosen One challenging the validity of the tale of Greek scientist […]
Just for the record, and because I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, Turning Point Academy, the home of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ exploding pen, is the friendlier, PR-manufactured moniker for what used to be called Derita Alternative, a facility for students that have run into serious discipline problems at other schools. That said, Turning Point Academy […]
