Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame plummeted 39 percent in June compared to the same month one year ago, attracting a scant 17,604 visitors according to numbers released yesterday by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which operates the $200-million, city-owned facility. The drop in attendance continued a downward spiral for the racing museum: in […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Charlotte Folk Society celebrates its Sixth Annual Old-Time Music Jam & Ice Cream Social at Historic Rosedale. [nggallery id=163]
States and local governments across the country have been stuffing their coffers with record takes of revenue, aside from a slight hiccup during the height of the recession, according to the advocacy group Watchdog.org: State and local governments collected a record high of $322 billion in taxes the first quarter of this year, and tied the […]
The initial redistricting proposals for the North Carolina House and Senate have been released. You can view the proposed districts HERE. On Monday, July 18, public hearings will be conducted across the state from 3pm until 9pm to solicit feedback on the proposed districts. In Mecklenburg, the hearing will take place in CPCC’s Central Campus […]
Mecklenburg commissioners on Tuesday night approved spending $156.4 million to launch 18 capital projects, from parks and greenways to school renovations and new-school construction. But not Stumptown Elementary, a planned $15 million school that parents and education advocates in north Mecklenburg say is long overdue and desperately needed to relieve severe overcrowding at Torrence Creek […]
“I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, and I endeavor every day to follow Him in all I do and in every position I advocate.” -Ron Paul My faith is a deeply private issue to me, and I don’t speak on it in great detail during my speeches because I want to avoid […]
As far as bodacious spin and stone-crazy rhetoric goes, this has to rank near the top of any list: the latest gruesome jobs report, which pushed the real unemployment rate past 16%, is solid evidence that the $830-billion economic stimulus package … wait for it … worked exactly according to plan. So opines The One: […]
I’m not sure how much evidence Americans need to realize the guy in the White House is a serious Communist, but the creation of Obama’s new Rural Council is about the most any hopey-changey person would want. The executive order that created the Council, signed in June and attracting scant attention, states that, “To enhance […]
Back when our grandparents and great grandparents were growing up there was a set formula for a good life: go to school, get good grades, get into a university, get a degree, turn a job into a career, start a family, and live a long time. This was considered the “American Dream” throughout most part of the 20th century. […]
Last year the Kentucky Coal Association filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lisa Jackson, in an effort to stop that agency’s War on Coal. Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bissett heavily criticized the administration in a press release by declaring that the EPA has been acting without consideration […]
