Mayor Anthony Foxx has assured that city finances and taxpayers won’t be pinched by bringing the Democratic National Convention to Charlotte next year. Mecklenburg County, though, might be a different story. “There’s likely to be some additional cost associated with our planning for the DNC,” County Manager Harry Jones related as part of a budget […]
After Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones acknowledged misleading the public and his county commission bosses, and wrongfully outing protected personnel information of the county’s former sheriff and current board vice chairman, Jones apologized for his transgressions and walked away without so much as a formal reprimand from commissioners. Jones was on the hot seat Tuesday […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department could save everyone a whole lot of time and just concede that rates will increase every year for the foreseeable future, just like they have every year in the past. Drought? Doesn’t matter, rates will go up. Floods and typhoons? Rates will go up. Picture perfect weather? Guess what, your rates are […]
Let me tell you a story. Way back in November of 1996 Bill James was first elected to the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners. During the election, unbelievalbe as it may seem, he had run as an unabashed social/fiscal conservative. He was the first Tea Partier ever elected to anything in Mecklenburg County. At the time he was a project […]
There’s one more chance to let people know how you feel about the Streetcar, and it’s going on right now. The City of Charlotte is asking for MUMPO (Mecklenburg Union Metropolitan Planning Organization) to amend its long-term transportation plan agreement and codify the streetcar’s jumping ahead of other plans in order to secure the federal […]
Debt On Arrival, that is, and it’s what House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) tagged President Obama’s budget proposal, released yesterday to nearly unanimous derision. “Debt on arrival. D-E-B-T on arrival,” Ryan said at a press conference. “Look, he raises spending everywhere. He raises taxes everywhere, increases borrowing. The trajectory of this budget is […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Young artists with the Charlotte Folk Society showcase their talents. [nggallery id=124]
People in Dearborn, MI can breathe a little easier; a mad bomber is off the streets. Roger Stockholm is safely locked in the jug, charged with issuing terrorist threats and possessing explosives. Stockholm, a 63-year-old Californian, was arrested outside the Islamic Center of America. In his car was a veritable arsenal. Well, it was an […]
By any conventional legislative calculus, it was a stomping. On Monday night, the House Republican leadership successfully passed provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act with a comfortable margin of support. The bill’s three PATRIOT Act surveillance powers, which were set to expire at the end of this month, were extended until December 8th by a […]
Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds and lost them all after he took his big fat cut out of it first, of course? Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds […]
