The Charlotte-area unemployment rate shrank slightly in October, to 10.2 percent from 10.6 percent the previous month, while Mecklenburg County’s unemployment dipped to 9.8 percent from 9.9 percent, according to numbers released today by the NC Employment Security Commission. That sounds like good news until you dig into the numbers, at which point we turn […]
Sanity comes close, but ultimately falls short, in Johnston County, where school officials are now requiring notes from parents if they don’t want their children to use lip balm, hand sanitizer or sunscreen while at school. As opposed to school officials’ original plan to outlaw lip balm from campuses unless parents sent notes stating their […]
With accusations that racism and financial discrimination were driving forces behind the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education’s decision to close predominately high poverty and minority schools on the city’s West side still stinging the community, flying under the radar has been the likely prospect that schools along the same educational corridor stand to reap millions of […]
In the George Orwell classic Animal Farm, there lived a horse named Boxer. He was strong, willing and dependable. In fact, Boxer was so dedicated to his assignments and his leader that he often said, “Napoleon is always right,” followed by his personal pledge to “work harder” toward accomplishing the state’s goals. Boxer was a […]
One of the methods of the left is to question who funds which advocacy group. The assumption is that if it’s a business or someone of fiscally conservative politics, then they are automatically suspect and shouldn’t be allowed to speak or write. This is a broad assumption based on many anecdotes of stories where some […]
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Not even allowing the ink to fully dry on the parchment in front of him, the thirty-year-old corduroy worker stepped back and began to wonder about what he had just signed. Left arm bent upward and resting on the other, fist unconsciously touching his lips, the young man stared silently at the hastily prepared document […]
“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” – George William Curtis This month I have gone on two trips by car; one taking me south through Atlanta, across Alabama, and up to Memphis, and the other […]
Is the Queen City’s vaunted Lynx light-rail line the next stop for virtual stripsearch scanners and junk-groping patdowns? Could be, from the sounds of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano. This from The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists […]
Please, please, if you can find a way to make it, go visit the NASCAR Museum. It appears that estimated attendance is falling slightly below projections. Instead of 800,000 visitors per year, projections now may tumble below 300,000! But don’t worry; the uptown crowd assures us that no bailout with taxpayer money will be required. However, […]
