NCDOT and Cintra, the private company selected to operate the proposed toll lanes on I-77, will be holding a series of closed-door meetings with elected officials from the Lake Norman towns. The meetings will be held Thursday, August 21, 2014. Times and locations are as follows: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at Mooresville Town Hall 1:00 p.m. […]
Countrywide deal is paying off big, BofA exec says — The Charlotte Observer, 2/19/09 The deal that cost Bank of America $50 billion – and counting — The Charlotte Observer, 8/16/14 Retroactive schadenfreude with perfect hindsight is not the goal here, especially when Bank of America’s dalliance with Countrywide raised red flags in real time as far back as those fateful […]
The Voter Integrity Project announced today that North Carolina’s statewide election rolls now contain 739,041 voter registrations from people the election officials can no longer find. “These missing voters are mostly people who moved away without telling the election office,” said Jay DeLancy, Director of VIP, “but the alarming recent growth in this voter category […]
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Who will protect us when government becomes the enemy of the sovereign man? As the federal government increasingly disregards the Constitution and the Natural Law Rights it protects and secures for We the People, who will stand in the breach? When the transition from public servant to tyrant is complete and the totalitarian police state […]
Davidson’s Town Board met with LNTC and NCDOT officials last week to discuss HOT Lanes in a special meeting. SeeDavidsonNews.net for the whole story. It’s commendable that this meeting occurred though it would have been much, much better if it had been allowed before the contract was signed for commercial close of the project. Davidson Mayor, John Woods, squashed that from […]
After avoiding Cabarrus County during the primary election, Thom Tillis finally came to town last Thursday to address the county Republican Party, and I was eager to ask him a question. Last week Cabarrus State Senator Fletcher Hartsell quickly ran an amendment that strips the Cabarrus County Republican executive board of its ability to appoint […]
Mecklenburg County has two candidates for sheriff. Both seem qualified according to their resumes but there are some critical differences. Irwin Carmichael is a well spoken lifetime bureaucrat with the sheriff’s office who aspires to the top paying, best retirement available position. I was lucky enough to hear him speak at Don Reid’s breakfast recently […]
I am not a constitutional scholar. But I have been around enough of them to know what they are and what they might say from time to time. I am not a big fan of President Obama. I thought there was a slight glimmer of hope the more I watched re-runs of his truly great […]
At our meeting last week (WidenI77 TownHall meeting in Cornelius on July 24. Click HERE for video.) we raised two issues regarding personal data. First was the breath of information that could be collected, including SSN’s and medical data. Second was that the private company- Cintra- could be collecting it. Last Friday the NCDOT disputed […]
