A new set of rules to determine where subsidized housing can be built in Charlotte got a cold shoulder Monday night from the city council, which fretted that a proposed locational policy doesn’t go far enough to help disperse affordable housing throughout the city and would still leave some of Charlotte’s most fragile neighborhoods vulnerable […]
As the dust settles from the 2010 Mid-Term elections, Tea Partiers are looking around and taking stock. For many, if not most, these elections were the first national-level contests they’ve been through as grassroots organizers. While the results were undeniably positive for the Republican Party, some wonder if those results bode just as well for […]
It’s hard to pick just one song by They Might Be Giants, so let’s just go back to their first Billboard hit. From the 1988 album “Lincoln”, this is “Ana Ng”.
City officials are again conceding, this time in writing, what all us ignorant cavemen knew way back during the half-cent sales tax repeal vote: Charlotte’s transit system is wholly unsustainable. So naturally, the braintrust behind the plan wants “new long term revenue sources for transit.” That’s government-speak for new taxes and/or fees and city officials […]
Jonathan Weil, with Bloomberg News, seems to think so, or at least that Bank of America is near slipping back into the financial graveyard after reaping accolades for repaying its its first round of TARP loot. Weil, in fact, isn’t ruling out another bailout ask looming on the horizon, given BAC’s shrinking stock price and […]
Of the questions posed throughout human history few are more pertinent to contemporary culture than one from Pontius Pilate. Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea who presided over Jesus Christ’s trial, uttered the far-ranging query: “What is truth?” Varied opinions are the norm concerning Jesus Christ. Some people see him as a good man, a […]
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.” Leon Trotsky, 1937, from “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Mecklenburg Young Republicans, MeckGOP and friends celebrate big gains at the polls Tuesday with a victory party at Dilworth Neighborhood Grille. [nggallery id=97]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Ghouls and goblins take center stage at last week’s Latta Plantation Ghost Walk. [nggallery id=96]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Davidson Wildcats come up short in a 37-13 loss to Dayton last Saturday. [nggallery id=95]
