You might have missed this buried in all the talk about a call to returned civility in political discourse, but apparently the country’s going broke, has this little debt problem, and its Triple-A credit rating is in jeopardy – again – of being downgraded. This from The WSJ: Moody’s Investors Service said in a report […]
Hats off to the folks at the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, who were in court this week battling corporate bribes, er, tax incentives and trying to clean up the lingering stench left by disgraced former House Speaker Jim Black. The NCICL presented oral arguments before a three-judge panel of the NC Court of Appeals, […]
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with the left smearing Sarah Palin or trying to link the Tea Party to the tragedy in Tucson; this is actual, for-real trash talk – as in garbage. If yours is starting to stack up higher than Al Gore’s carbon footprint, hang in there, help is on the […]
This is definitely not the kind of news that Mayor Anthony Foxx and the uptown crowd clawing desperately to land the DNC in Charlotte want floating around the country. It was strange and disturbing enough when reports first surfaced that Delvonte Tisdale had fallen to his death from an airplane over Boston, after breaching security […]
With the new Republican-controlled House in power, media pundits and beltway aficionados have begun rumblings over the prospects of congressional hearings that may begin as early as next month. And fresh off of his mid-term reelection, Congressman Darryl Issa (R-CA) has forged ahead on plans to issue a string of investigations into the Wikileaks scandal, […]
What happens when city and county governments shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in lucrative salaries and bonuses to justify luring the supposedly “best and brightest” away from the private sector? Bad things happen. Take three high-profile cases from Charlotte’s entertainment circus as prime examples: the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bojangles’ Coliseum, and Ovens […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina WBT wrapped up another excellent season earlier this month of its always popular Holiday on Ice at the Green in uptown. [nggallery id=115]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Bad Boys of Arenacross and Hot Rod Mud Bog Races slide into Bojangles Coliseum. [nggallery id=116]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Wildcats put on a good show for fans, despite coming up on the short end of a 74-68 loss to Appalachian State. [nggallery id=117]
The last few days have provided an interesting look into the mindset of many Americans. Start with the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, which also resulted in the murder of six people. The charges and accusations over what caused the tragedy have flown hot and heavy, and what has been a rather conspicuous casualty […]
