Everyone was all a-twitter last weekend when a lower level deputy Treasury secretary, not President Obama, announced in his blog, (not the President’s) that the onerous employer-mandate section of Obamacare (just that part, nothing else) was going to be suspended for a year. Until after next year’s mid-term elections. (see Wall Street Journal’s scathing on-line piece ‘Employer Mandate: […]
Looks like Charlotte will be seeing some new faces on the City Council by the end of the year…including replacements for each of the current sitting Republicans. District Six Republican Andy Dulin announced months ago that he would not be seeking a new term. That has set the stage for a wild primary battle currently […]
Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) are being touted by an increasing number of politicians, corporations and think tanks as the new way to support the U.S. infrastructure, such as roads, airports and water. What many people may not know is that the corporations participating as the “private” entity in public-private partnerships also donate millions of dollars to political campaigns through PACs, […]
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking The Republican Party’s senior operatives publicly are committing the cardinal sin of promising to spend tens of millions of dollars of its most […]
*Editors note: A heartfelt congratulations to Kayser! We appreciate him sharing this non-political, yet most exciting bit of personal news. We know a lot of readers enjoy his columns with us and we figured a little human interest story wouldn’t hurt anybody. 🙂 As many of my friends and colleagues know, following a miscarriage in […]
Kim Ratliff says she’s listening. Ever since the at-large county commissioner let loose a whopper of a Kinsley gaffe, opining that Mecklenburg County’s next manager should’t be a white man, she has apparently been deluged with emails from people asking her to resign her commission seat or, at the least, recuse herself from the process of […]
This Thursday, and probably the days leading up to it, you will surely hear a number of people wishing you a “Happy 4th of July”. The sentiment is well intended, but unfortunately less meaningful than it could be. You see, it isn’t a date we’re celebrating. We don’t wish people a “Merry December 25th!!”. No, […]
How does bigger government stifle the economy? One cannot count all the ways. The June 24th issue of Time Magazine tells us of several. The article “Caveat Sharer” is how innovations based on information sharing technology is under attack either by government or from competitors through government. Readers are told of new car rental service […]
