Much ado has been made about the ‘attack on academic freedom’ with the recent closing of the Center on Poverty by the UNC Board of Governors (BOG). As far as we can tell, life goes on at every campus in the UNC System as it did before the announcement of the closing of the Poverty […]
Over one thousand people celebrated St. Patricks Day at Historic Latta Plantation. The visitors were entertained by Celtic dancers, drum and bagpipes, and many other Celtic music performers. If you missed this event keep in mind the many programs and activities at Latta. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina. [nggallery id=119]
Politicians love to plan things. Whenever we express our dismay over their plans, we often hear “We have a plan to bring progress and prosperity to this city. You naysayers have no plan.” But a city with millions of people actually has millions of individual plans to put the resources of each individual to work, […]
On March 18, 2015 a Mecklenburg Board of Health rule takes effect prohibiting smoking in all government-owned buildings in Mecklenburg County, the City of Charlotte, and surrounding Mecklenburg County towns, as well as any City, County or Town vehicle, grounds, park, greenway, or parkland. A separate County ordinance makes Mecklenburg County parks and buildings on […]
If you’ve been watching the news much lately, you are probably aware the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has been looking for more ways to control the internet from the Federal level. One of those moves came last week when the FCC granted a petition from Wilson, NC to preempt a North Carolina law that puts […]
This week thirteen NASCAR Sprint Cup Teams took part in testing at CMS. During the regular season the number of available test dates are very few and these teams wanted to take advantage and do as much preparation as possible for the races here in May. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina [nggallery […]
The Charlotte Checkers have a lot going on each night they play at Time Warner Cable Arena. This past Sunday the team used the game to increase the awareness of ovarian cancer, by highlighting patients, survivors, and the organizations put in place to assist. It was also Chubby’s birthday and the party had a Disney […]
The final home game of the regular season had the Marshall Thundering Herd invading Halton Arena to face the Charlotte 49ers. The two seniors, Henry and Williams, were honored in the pre-game and did not disappoint the home crowd. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina [nggallery id=116].
We’ve just passed the ninety day mark since the November elections and by now it should be clear what was sold to Republican voters during the campaign season is out of sync with what is getting delivered. Any casual observer can see a pattern of behavior that hardly deserves commendation. In 2010, we start with […]
One must enjoy the havoc the Federal Government creates in individual’s lives in the name of regulation, else one would get upset and, perhaps, become disillusioned with our government. Recently the company I work with had a Federal DOT inspection of their log records. Logs are time sheets, kept by truck drivers, ostensibly for safety, […]
