With a divisive 5-4 vote the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a $1.17-billion budget plan that hopes to suck $352 million from county coffers, a $50 million increase from the school system’s current take. And that was the easy vote. The battle royal came when a different five-member majority fended off an […]
Nearly half of Mecklenburg homeowners, about 158,000 households, would be in line for a tax hike under the county’s proposed revenue-neutral budget plan, according to the latest numbers from the county’s budget department. Rolling with a revenue-neutral plan would dip the county property tax rate from 83.87-cents to 78.83-cents per $100 assessed value, and still […]
I’m sure it’s wholly coincidental that Mayor Anthony Foxx gets his Democrat-controlled city council to approve a renewed push for an amped-up jobs program for youths during the same week GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone officially rolls out his campaign with a signature platform of job creation and hammering Foxx for failing to adequately address […]
Timing is everything in comedy and politics (some would argue the two are one in the same), and it couldn’t get much worse for Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor and current wannabe presidential candidate is scheduled this week to deliver a healthcare speech to deflect criticism of his signature Romneycare legislation that requires nearly […]
Three guns confiscated in two days at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the school board preps for tonight’s ask of an additional $55 million in county funding. Yesterday it was a student attempting to hijack a school bus, an event that yielded eight counts of kidnapping and two counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds. […]
Leave it to a pretentious prince with four mansions to lecture American commoners about how our insatiable appetite for beef, of all things, is on course to reap ruin on the environment and destroy the world. This from The Telegraph UK: America’s appetite for beef is jeopardising the world’s water supply, the Prince of Wales […]
A government-managed agency in partnership with a boatload of other government directed and subsidized agencies has produced a so-called community consensus that shows most folks wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes if it means – wait for it – more money for more government services. What a shocker. As forewarned earlier this year, the astroturf […]
Pete Kaliner takes his new website out for a test drive with a review of City Manager Curt Walton’s freshly released recommended budget. The highlights: a $1.67-billion total spending plan that sweeps up about $16 million through a revenue neutral pitch, after revaluation, dipping the existing city property tax hit of 45.86-cents by 2-cents per […]
All rise! The Court of Historical Accuracy is now in session, the Honorable First Amendment presiding. The Court will entertain arguments in the case of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) vs. Free Speech. At issue is the protected status and free application of speech during wartime. Sen. Graham, hereafter the Prosecution, alleges free speech is invalid […]
The Department of Homeland Security apparently wants everybody to feel at home in America, including those who are here illegally. Case in point: last year the DHS halted the deportation of more than 34,000 illegal aliens. This from Judicial Watch: In a perplexing development ignored by the mainstream media, the Obama Administration suspended tens of […]
