Rand Paul recently sat with me to share some of his views. The insights on his worldview left me persuaded that he deserves to be considered the most important public intellectual serving in the United States Senate. Time Magazine calls him “the most interesting man in American politics.” The Senate’s public intellectual chair has been […]
The Charlotte Convention Center was witness to the early arrival of Spring thinking with the annual boat show. Boat and watercraft dealers and vendors of related water items gave us a preview of wha its in store for watersports in 2015. The star of the show for quite a few years was again Twiggy the […]
The Charlotte Convention Center was set up with twenty-eight full size volleyball courts to hold the Queen City Classic this past weekend. Volleyball clubs from all around the area showed off their teams of girls from age twelve to nineteen. A high quality of female atheletes put on a great show. Photos by Glen Simmons […]
The Grady Cole Center was the site of the 2015 Charlotte Mini-Con comic convention. Presented by Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find this is the longest-running event of its kind. Comic book authors, artists, and many costumed fans came together in the afternoon to compare notes and raise food for Second Harvest Food Bank. Photos by […]
For the first time yesterday, the state released letter grades for all the k-12 schools across North Carolina. Senator Phil Berger, who was instrumental in passing the legislation requiring the grades, said that they are an important tool for parents, administrators, policymakers, and taxpayers. I would tend to agree moreso if parents could then utilize […]
I was just having a conversation on Facebook with a friend of mine who posted a note thanking his state senator for opposing efforts by some in his county to move to non-partisan elections. He happens to be a sitting County Commissioner in one of those “foreign” eastern NC counties. 🙂 If you have at […]
Editor’s note: This is in response to Commission Chairman Trevor Fuller urging Mecklenburg to add Veteran’s Day as a County holiday. Read the story HERE. Below is the text of an email I just sent to my fellow Commissioners regarding the proposal to give Veterans’ Day as a holiday to all county employees. It […]
It just came to my attention that Timothy Johnson, former NC GOP Vice Chairman, passed away on January 30. From his Facebook page: Our father, Timothy F. Johnson, peacefully left this earth on Friday, January 30th, 2015 and embarked his new journey as our angel alongside his mother Carol Ann Wilson-Johnson (Nani) and his father […]
Such as infrastructure, for example. The United States has close to 63,000 bridgesthat need to be repaired or replaced. Some estimates place the cost of such repairs and replacements at over $1 trillion. Some experts think it far exceeds that amount. That number may sound excessively large when viewed in isolation. In truth, it ‘only’ […]
With an impending vote by the Virginia Legislature to adopt legislation (HJ497) to call for an Article V “Convention of States”, State Senator Dick Black has penned his opposition. North Carolinian’s would do well to heed the warnings presented by Senator Black and encourage their members of the North Carolina General Assembly to not seek any such […]
