Charlotte’s gang problem isn’t really a gang problem, more like a version of the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family living under one roof, according to Police Chief Rodney Monroe, who offered this stunning evaluation of the local crime scene in the wake of the mob riot that erupted uptown, leaving one dead, one wounded, 70 […]
As in torpedoed and blown out of the water: House Speaker Thom Tillis, an alleged fiscal conservative Republican from north Mecklenburg, has twisted enough arms and cut enough backroom deals to stuff upward of $28 million back into the Senate budget to help pay for an extension of the vaunted light-rail Lynx Blue Line. The […]
Alternate Headline: Crash-and-Burn Bill of the Week. Which doesn’t necessarily make it a bad one, but I suspect Rep. Dale Folwell, a Forsyth Republican, is doomed to epic failure with proposed legislation that would require principals to keep track of illegal immigrants in their schools, for the sole purpose of fiscal analysis. The blowback from […]
Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts is actively lobbying the public to support her self-proclaimed “education budget,” which would use a rate-neutral spending plan to funnel $50 million in additional county funding to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and dramatically increase the tax burden on a majority of homeowners. The county board chairman’s e-newsletter, paid for by the Committee to […]
