Lighting Up The Holidays In Pineville
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Revelers kick off the holiday season last weekend with the annual Christmas tree lighting festival in Pineville. [nggallery id=104]
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High School Gridiron Playoff Action
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Mallard Creek tops Ardrey Kell with a 49-23 win last Friday to advance in playoff action. [nggallery id=105]
Gov. Bev: fuggedaboudit
In a wholly predictable response to her political mentor’s plea of ‘I’m guilty, but not guilty like that” today, Gov. Beverly Perdue is urging folks (like, I don’t know, the GOP majority that just won control of the General Assembly) to leave the past in the past and focus on moving North Carolina forward. She […]
Third World Banking Headed To Queen City
The Charlotte City Council is diving headfirst into the microcredit lending pool, unanimously voting this week to shell out up to $230,000 in taxpayer money to help establish a Grameen America Bank in the Queen City. Mecklenburg County officials are also being tapped to contribute a matching $230,000, but have not yet voted on the […]
Gov. Pleasley And Other Sourced Bombshells; UPDATE – $1,000 Wrist Slap
The former governor gets a bad joke of a fine; the citizens of North Carolina get a giant one up the – This from WRAL: Former Gov. Mike Easley pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single campaign finance violation as part of a deal to end long-running state and federal investigations into his dealings with friends […]
Finally! A Politician With Nothing To Hide
If there were a Spin Doctorate program at Political University the requisite course would be Obfuscation 101. No one survives in contemporary American politics without a thorough mastery of the subject. Obfuscation 101 instructs the neophyte politician on how to tell voters what they want to hear while having no intention of fulfilling the obligation […]
Sunshine And Socialists
“Old time” Democrats live by the idea that Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved the nation by creating social programs to save the poor from the Great Depression. Those Democrats are having a difficult time understanding why Roosevelt’s reputation isn’t glorified by all Americans. They are also watching their Democrat Party evolve into a blatant anti-American, global […]
Saturday Night House Party
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes and we’ll work them into the mix. First up tonight, getting ramped with some Flogging Molly, submitted by House Guest DJ Matthew Ridenhour: Followed by some clowning around with Dwight Yoakam, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love: And a little Jordan Page, submitted by guest […]
The Color Of Money And Public Education
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools: A government agency whose avowed purpose is to provide an education to all children, no matter their circumstance. It is with such lofty purposes every government venture begins. The results are in and have been for decades. They have been in since the 1950s and 1960s, long before the decline associated with the […]
MicroCredit Gone Bust
Not sure where our esteemed city leaders are in their contemplation of forking over $200K to help jump start a local microcredit Grameen America branch in the Queen City, but they might want to check out what’s happening in India before they start doling out taxpayer loot. This from The New York Times: MADOOR, India […]
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