Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you. Or in this case maybe to Bright Beginnings, which received a reprieve from the budget ax this week when the school board voted to delay a decision to cut $10.4 million from the popular pre-kindergarten program. At the same time, the board moved forward with […]
The Ruling Class Elite is going to raise your property taxes in a big way folks. Jennifer Roberts is going to stick it to you once again for the sake of all our helpless children who will perish unless even more of your money is forcibly removed from your wallet and used for their ” education”. […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Rahm Emanuel is back on the ballot in Chicago, after the Illinois Supreme Court today issued a stay of yesterday’s appellate court decision the yanked Emanuel’s name from the mayoral race. This from Bloomberg: The high court ordered the city’s election officials to include Emanuel’s name on any ballots printed […]
On January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the Constitution and American jurisprudence from which we’ve yet to recover. That was the day when seven black-robed justices overstepped their authority and plucked a right to abortion from the 14th Amendment, where no such right had previously existed. Wading through judicial opinions […]
Did you get any good games for Christmas? Long after the fudge is eaten, the clothes are returned and the new football is scuffed, the game boards are still bright and shiny and waiting for cold weather and your undivided attention. The forecast is for snow; let the games begin! Here’s the new one, called […]
A little something to help pass the time during tonight’s national kumbaya address: the official PunditHouse State of the Union BoINGO Card. Feel free to play along at home – on the honor system, natch – by checking off any phrases or words that President Obama uses in his speech. Disclaimer: For entertainment purposes only; […]
It has taken less than two decades for former general Colin Powell to take himself down, and down with a great big thud. He has gone from Hero to Zero in less than 20 years. Once a hero to all who served in the United States Military, he turned coat in the 2008 election blasting […]
Or not. With only four weeks until Chicago’s mayoral election, and with former Team BO chief of staff Rahm Emanuel holding a big lead in most polls, an appellate court panel ruled today that Emanuel’s name should be yanked from the ballot because he did not meet the residency standard to run for mayor. The […]
From busing, that is. Been a lot of folks wanting an explanation for how CMS would save $4 million in transportation costs by changing bell schedules at more than 100 of the district’s elementary schools. “It expands the window for us to optimize our bus routes,” Ed Shed COO Hugh Hattabaugh told county commissioners last […]
Kojo Nantambu, the head of the Charlotte chapter of the NAACP, made local, regional, and national headlines recently with his claim that Charlotte is a bastion of racism. Mr. Nantambu moved to have Charlotte punished by losing lucrative basketball tournament income from the CIAA and the NCAA. Many Charlotte political leaders, while late to the […]
