Charlotte Roller Girls All-Stars
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Charlotte Roller Girls All-Stars skate over Savannah in the season opener at the Grady Cole Center. [nggallery id=135]
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Resistance Is Futile!
In my last post, “This Abortion’s On You,” I reported the fact both Charlotte and Mecklenburg County offer taxpayer funded abortion “benefits” in their respective group health plans to city and county employees, and have done so for at least the past 25 years. I mentioned that I had asked all three GOP Councilman – […]
Ride ‘Em Cowboy
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Some real cowboy poetry takes center stage at the Circle K Rodeo. The next round of fun rides into town on April 2. [nggallery id=134]
Hoops At Halton
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Charlotte drops its regular season finale with a one-point heartbreaker, 71-70, to St. Joseph’s. [nggallery id=133]
Back Marker Budget
If a racing museum crumbles in a center city and nobody’s around to hear it fail, does it really make a sound? Apparently not, as the uptown lunch bunch continues to make excuses for the fiscal wreck that the France Family Museum has become and paint a happy face on its future. This from TCO: […]
Train Trouble Down The Tracks
No real surprises here: operating costs for the vaunted light-rail Lynx Blue Line are expected to soar, with projections pointing toward a whopping 55 percent increase over four years. Charlotte Area Transit System officials blame required maintenance for the spike. “Hopefully the costs will begin to stabilize,” CATS administration manager Dee Pereira tells the uptown […]
NPR, The Muslim Brotherhood And A Reidstone Cowboy
With the country $14 trillion in debt, the hard-hitting hombre from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is fighting tooth and nail to save cowboy poetry, or something. Meanwhile, back in reality, Senator Jim DeMint is continuing his push to cut funding for public broadcasting: If NPR and PBS want to continue their programming, they […]
CMS Paying The Piper With Pink Slips For Teachers
The bill for years of misprioritized spending at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools came due Tuesday night, paid in part with the prepping of pink slips for nearly 400 teachers and 164 instructional support staff. The Board of Education with a 6-3 vote approved a set of guidelines that will be used as CMS implements a reduction in […]
Paul Ryan’s Road Map to Serfdom
I must confess that before a Tea Party group in Massachusetts asked me to speak to them about Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America,” I had never read it. Sure, I had a general idea from news media accounts that Rep Ryan had charted a Republican alternative to the insanity of our current fiscal policy. But […]
Perdue’s Veto On The Chopping Block
NC GOP House leaders are set for their first big legislative tussle with a vote slated for Wednesday to override Gov. Beverly Perdue’s veto of the Protect Healthcare Freedom Act, a bill that would block the provision of Obamacare requiring people to buy health insurance or face a penalty. Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory has […]
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