Apologies – that header should read Habitual Criminals Catch More Breaks. Because our revolving door of criminal justice isn’t spinning quit fast enough, new legislation will apparently add more grease to the hinges. It comes courtesy of HB 642, co-sponsored by Mecklenburg County’s very own Becky Carney, and is already drawing backlash from district attorneys. “I used […]
Forty-year-old business analyst Ken Nelson has filed to run for Mecklenburg County School Board. Married, with a three-year-old daughter, Nelson has been a Charlotte resident since 2006. This will be his second run for a School Board seat, being narrowly defeated in 1997 in his hometown of Clark, NJ. Nelson is known locally as a […]
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America’s first unofficial/official Afro-Am President Bill Clinton opines that GOP efforts to restore integrity and honesty into the electoral process is, of course, a blatant form of racism. This from Politico: “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the […]
The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s two top chief executives will be performing their high-flying, tourism-attracting circus act without a safety net for the immediate future. “We wanted to let everyone know that the CRVA Board has decided that with the expiration of their contracts at the end of June, Tim Newman and Mike Crum will […]
I’ll confess I haven’t done much research on Thaddeus McCotter, but he already gets some style points for this vid from a years back:
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools interim chief Hugh Hattabaugh used his inaugural presser this week to make clear his intention of staying the course when it comes to fully implementing a barrage of new, pricey, and unproven tests that come part and parcel with the district’s drive for teacher performance pay. The initiative, championed by former super Peter […]
Through all it’s twists and turns, the three year old trial of Casey Anthony finally came to an end yesterday with a verdict that many consider shocking. Anthony was found guilty on four counts of lying to investigators, but not of killing Caylee Anthony, her two year old daughter. While this case didn’t involve a high profile […]
Center City boosters and CharMeck police chieftains are heralding the success of Monday night’s July Fourth celebration, which managed to avoid a repeat of the melee that produced more than 70 arrests and one shooting death in the wake of last month’s Speed Street festival. Police reported only four arrests associated with the July Fourth […]
Nothing like wrapping up an Independence Day weekend with claims from a repeat criminal offender in Michigan that his Constitutional rights are being deprived because he is being denied access to porn in prison. Says it’s cruel and unusual punishment, or something. This from The Detroit News: Kyle Richards, 21, of Fraser filed the five-page […]
