The GOP simultaneously bucked and repeated history Tuesday night in an election that saw Republicans capture both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, while again coming up painfully short in their attempt to wrest majority control of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. And in […]
Well, the votes are in and the people residing in North Carolina’s District 1, also known from the green highway signs as you enter from all points as the Northeast North Carolina Economic Development Region, has chosen to remain one of the poorest areas of North Carolina. They’ve re-elected G.K. Butterfingers (I mean, Butterfield) for […]
Board of Education Chairman Eric Davis says CMS doesn’t have anything to hide and will fully cooperate with the local NAACP’s request for an outside financial audit of the district, but won’t come off the hip to foot the bill. That burden, Davis said, should fall on the rabble-rousers calling for a review of CMS’ […]
If you’re looking for evidence of how incredibly screwed up and bass-ackward Mecklenburg County’s criminal justice system has become, search no further than today’s Meck Deck, where Jeff Taylor digs up the ugly disparity in bonds meted out by the same judge for the infamous pen-bomb mom ($50K) and an accused rapist ($5K). Wonderful.
Tea Partiers have waited nearly two years for this Election Day. We’ve dreamed about it, worked toward it and suffered unsubstantiated slanders for our efforts. Our opponents, who live for the Washington establishment, call us racists, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes and the sexually derisive “tea-baggers.” We’re Limbaugh’s, Beck’s and Hannity’s puppets, intellectually vapid and thoroughly Neanderthal. […]
