Charlotte International Auto Show
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The crowds are revved up at the Charlotte International Auto Show. [nggallery id=103]
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Blurred Vision
The braintrust behind the 2020 Center City Vision Plan wrapped its last community forum this week, prepping for a release next month of what promises to be a wish list of wild uptown spending. Still in play, apparently, the mind-numbingly expensive pipedream to cap I-277 with an open space promenade that will better connect uptown’s […]
Nanny Perdue and Uncle Barack
We need them, because we are obviously too dumb and irresponsible to make informed decisions for ourselves. Following up the federal government’s decree this week to essentially outlaw adult beverages that contain a mix of caffeine and booze, the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission, at Gov. Bev Perdue’s urging, has voted to allow retailers to return […]
NAACP Should Cut Ties with Incendiary Nantambu
For weeks now while the CMS controversy has boiled over in our local community we’ve heard every possible range of reasons as to why it has come down to the drastic measures proposed. Fiscally conservative minded people will tell you it surely points to a lack of proper planning by previous CMS leaders and boards […]
High Speeding Into Ruin
Faced with falling revenues and rising costs, the Metropolitan Transit Commission this week declared full steam ahead for its now self-professed, out-of-control rail transit building plan. Never mind that there’s no money to pay for it. The 11-mile, $1.2-billion Blue Line light-rail extension to UNCC is short some $200 million. The solution? Fast track the […]
CLT Should KO TSA
John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), this week defended recent moves by the agency to conduct more invasive security screenings at our nation’s airports. In particular he defended the controversial full-body scanners that can search for items under passengers’ clothing and the more-aggressive pat-downs that involve the touching of genitalia of passengers […]
School Brawls, Mailed Threats And More Racist Accusations
Just another page in the ongoing saga of CMS. Violence erupted yesterday at Garinger High School, where 10 students were arrested for disorderly conduct after a rolling brawl broke out on the school’s campus – again. It’s the fourth time this year that police have been called to the school in response to melees. Recall […]
State’s Retiree Health Fund In Sick Shape
North Carolina lawmakers have for years been violating the state’s constitutional balanced budget requirement by playing funny money tricks with employee salaries and promised benefits, leading to a $32 billion shortfall for the state’s retiree health fund and adding at least an extra $3 billion in real-time money to this year’s projected $3 billion budget […]
Tea Party For Kids
Maybe there’s hope yet for Mecklenburg County. For whatever it’s worth, and admittedly it’s not much, results from the “Kids Voting Mecklenburg” project show Republican Corey Thompson topping the at-large commissioners race. Thompson, a local tea party activist and first-time candidate, finished out of the running in actual election results, trailing top vote-getters Jennifer Roberts, Jim […]
The Federal Phone Police
In the ever increasing creep of the government nanny state into your daily life, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (in the Queen City today, by the way, to talk transit) said this week that the Obama Administration is exploring its options on how to block cell phone use in cars. This from The Daily Caller: Transportation […]
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