Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James has asked the county’s internal auditor to investigate possible improprieties or illegalities concerning salary and benefit payments made to the school board’s newly elected vice chairman, Mary McCray, when she was employed as a teacher by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and also served as president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE), […]
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) this week released his annual report on what he considers wasteful government spending. Whether you’re a hardcore fiscal conservative or a big government-loving progressive, common ground should be found in the conclusion that most of the examples Coburn cites can appropriately be considered squandered loot. From the cover letter of his […]
When the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners wasn’t preoccupied at its meeting this week launching investigations into the possibly nefarious doings of one or more of their own, commissioners stayed busy tackling some of the top priorities of local governance. The meeting’s opening prayer and pledge were no sooner over and done when Commissioner Vilma […]
For all of you who are concerned about how the police are used in support of the Ruling Class – see Codevillas defining essay – the following is a description with links to an international story of which you should be aware. What is described as Climategate2, another batch of emails showing the fraudelent thoughts […]
I hope that reading this will give you some insight on what is about to happen to North Carolina: I began to blog in an effort to bring to light the crookedness and deception involved in the distribution of work for the DNC 2012 in Charlotte, NC. Our “Obama-lite” mayor, Anthony Foxx, had publicly told the City […]
Another winter in Wisconsin, and another round of primal scream therapy for our unionists hell bent on putting the entire state through another round of failed recalls. The leftist diehards are helping us to celebrate Christmas by shoving annoying recall petitions at us while we shop. When given the opportunity to tell me their single […]
The city council gave final approval of the multi-million-dollar Chiquita peel deal last week; county commissioners are on tap tonight to follow suit. A truly proud and progressive moment for Char-Meck GovCo and the company they keep:
Crime, both violent and property, declined across the board and across the country for the first half of this year, with Charlotte’s numbers reflecting much of the same, according to the FBI’s just-released preliminary semi-annual uniform crime report, which covers January through June 2011. In Charlotte with the help of the law firm for drug […]
Former city councilmember and well-connected about-towner Lynn Wheeler is reporting on her Facebook page that Char-Meck’s moneyed and political elites will be jet-setting across the pond to London for the 2012 Chamber Inter City Visit. Haven’t been able to confirm it yet; if true, chalk it up as one of the truly tone-deaf, bone-headed moves […]
You wouldn’t know it to listen to Michael Smith of Center City Partners or to Governor Beverly Perdue, while they were basking in the floodlights of just having bought, not brought, 400 jobs to Charlotte by spending millions of dollars, but the real reason we taxpayers are now on the hook for funding the job […]
