Two quality and local talk show hosts gone in two months over at WBT, as Massachusetts-based Greater Media cuts loose Tara Servatius, a powerhouse behind the mic during the afternoon drive-time slot for the last two years. The station in March dropped Pete Kaliner and the regular doses of overnight wit and wisdom he brought […]
Under the county manager’s proposed budget of largesse, commissioners stand ready to receive a nearly 70 percent increase for their so-called allowances. Overall, the board’s total allotment would increase to $418,715, a 12 percent jump from the current $372,629. Part and parcel of the perk pump, each commissioner would receive $7,200 for a nebulously titled […]
Even as we watch other cities and various states (including North Carolina) reduce their budgets, paring the size of government, Mecklenburg County continues its course of taxing the people more in order to pay the county bureaucrats more. There are, of course, reasons for this, none good. The primary reason is that Jennifer Roberts associates […]
As cases of disconcerting irony go, this one’s a doozie. Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of California must release roughly 33,000 inmates to alleviate overcrowding in its prisons, comes a report that California prison officials have mistakenly let loose a horde of violent offenders. This from the L.A. Times: […]
GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone let loose a media release today calling on Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts and the county board to go back to the drawing board with the revaluation process: Stone called for this “Reval Redo” so that process can be performed more fairly and so that the values more closely reflect actual […]
It still has to be reconciled with the House budget and clear Gov Bev’s desk, two high hurdles to be certain, but for now it appears the latest leg of Charlotte’s vaunted light rail express has been derailed. Or not. The NC Senate budget unveiled yesterday clips $22.5 million that would help fund the state’s […]
I got to watch Chris Wallace on his FOX Sunday morning show and David Gregory on “Meet The Press.” I’ll be back in church next Sunday; I can guarantee you that. Those shows are scary. Here’s what I noticed more than anything else: People currently in the White House, namely President Obama, and in Congress, […]
Queen City NAACP chief Kojo Nantambu, last seen making a general nuisance by disrupting school board meetings with counter-productive, self-serving, headline-grabbing protests, was at it again this week, only this time taking his act to the bigger stage of the General Assembly. Nantambu was among six protestors arrested by legislative police on Tuesday, after shouting […]
Several times a year local political issues capture the public’s attention. Such a time was Thursday, May 19. The Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners held a public hearing to allow citizens to express their opinions on the proposed FY 2012 budget. As you may have heard, Chairperson Jennifer Roberts wants to keep the county […]
This is kind of a “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” question. Over the past couple of years I’ve been wondering just where is the origin of “government off the rails?” Is it a top-down problem or a bottom-up problem? Who is setting the policies that are spending the country into a $14 […]
