Curtis Watkins, Republican candidate for Charlotte City Council At-Large, met with the press on July 18 to give a primer on his campaign. He was joined by former Mayor Pat McCrory, who introduced him.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has struggled to collect nearly $1 million in unpaid lunch bills from the last two years, as district officials have scrambled for money to salvage popular pre-kindergarten programs, retain front-line educators, and keep classroom sizes manageable. Out of 27,233 cases where students have stacked up unpaid meal bills, CMS has managed to close […]
Mitt Romney’s candidacy boasts several strengths. He is a successful businessman, an accomplished politician, and an articulate speaker. Romney is also perceived as economically conservative. In addition to those qualities he is photogenic, which is more essential to contemporary office seekers than a coherent platform. But Romney has drawbacks as well. Some of Romney’s flaws […]
Crisis. Everything’s a crisis anymore. As political leaders in Washington seek a resolution to the restrictions posed by the Debt Limit, we are told it’s a crisis. Where is the crisis? Isn’t global warming a crisis? Isn’t HIV a crisis? We had (have) a subprime crisis. How many crises can we take? Maybe this really […]
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Winston Churchill had the most tempestuous relationship with a female “friend,” Lady Astor, that could be had without being officially married. She called him a “drunk” one night at a dinner party. He replied, ‘”Lady Astor, I may be drunk now but in the morning, I will be sober. You, on the other hand, will still […]
Social media has been abuzz with condemnations for Casey Anthony. Celebrities have been tweeting their outrage while media pundits from Joy Behar to Bill O’Reilly air their displeasure with the Anthony verdict. The court of public opinion had Anthony convicted and all but executed. Anger toward Casey Anthony united this country like nothing since Pearl Harbor. […]
In 1968 the Civil Rights movement was at an all time high with a dedicated leader, Martin Luther King Jr.. Standing on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4th of that year, he was assassinated. To honor him and the emergence of Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Day was designated a national holiday in 1986. In […]
As part of the board of commissioners’ discussion Tuesday night to approve spending $156.4 million on capital projects, Commissioner Vilma Leake, a Democrat, offered this nugget of wisdom about paying for school construction as it related to the board’s decision to delay funding for Stumptown Elementary, a move that drew fire from folks living in […]
At least in California, where the highest-paid state employee last year was a prison surgeon who was previously fired for alleged incompetence and “has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don’t trust his clinical skills.” He has, officials say, a history of mental illness. So now the prison […]
