Wisconsin looks like Greece. The recipients of government largess, upon threat of losing it, take to the streets in protest. Their employers, the various schools systems, do not tell them to take off, their union bosses do, and so they lay out of work to protest. As the failure of major public pension funds looms […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Revelers celebrate for a great cause at the 53rd Annual Charlotte Heart Ball at the NASCAR Hall of Fame Ballroom. [nggallery id=127]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Mid-Atlantic Boat Show makes some waves at the Charlotte Convention Center. [nggallery id=128]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Talents are on display at the Charlotte Woodcarvers Club Showcase at the Marion Diehl Recreation Center. [nggallery id=126]
Leave it to Democrat Gov. Beverly Perdue to whip out the veto stamp and slam it smack down on teachers and taxpayers. That’s essentially what Perdue did this week in her first major tussle with the Republican-led legislature, when she vetoed the Balanced Budget Act. Perdue claims the bill, which included a Republican plan to […]
Billed as a nonpartisan effort to gather community input and consensus on what city and county services residents value most, and how far they’d go to support them as local governments look to cut budgets, the “Get Real 2011” initiative this week kicked off what organizers hope will be a series of public forums and […]
… in 3, 2, 1 – boom.
South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint was the guest of the NCGOP on Tuesday, February 22. He spoke to a crowded room of Republican and Tea Party activists who had gathered from the greater Charlotte area and as far away as New Hanover County. Preceding the speech by Senator DeMint, representatives from The John Locke Foundation, Heritage Action […]
First we have Democrat legislators fleeing Wisconsin, holing up in out-of-state mystery locations to avoid voting on a fiscal bill designed to save help save the state from bankruptcy by limiting collective-bargaining rights for most state union member workers; now we have more of the same in Indiana. All because left-wing Democrat politicians, bastions of […]
It’s a neat trick if you can pull it off, which is apparently what the North Carolina Department of the State Treasurer did, according to a recently released report by the state auditor’s office. This from Forbes: In the report, the auditor states that State Treasurer Janet Cowell’s office failed to report $771 million in […]
