It could be coming down the pike. Commissioners on Tuesday night agreed to discuss at their next meeting placing a quarter-cent sales tax referendum on November’s ballot. The idea was pitched by Commissioner George Dunlap, who said he wants any revenue raised through the new tax to be used to fund public libraries. The board […]
Faced with a budget crunch that is cutting into operations across the board, the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services is scuttling its years-long practice of using taxicabs to provide transportation for senior citizens and Medicaid-eligible clients. Beginning next month, a majority of those DSS clients will be required to use Charlotte Area Transit System […]
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit that seeks to sink the State of Arizona’s new illegal immigration law, which is slated to take effect later this month. The Feds claim the state law “is preempted by federal law and therefore violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.” Ironic but wholly fitting […]
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says his agency is on course to change it mission, taking one giant leap to prop up the Obama Administration’s goal of extending olive branches to the Muslim world, supplanting space exploration as NASA’s driving goal. In a recent interview with al-Jazeera, Bolden declared that President Obama tagged the foremost objective […]
Charlotte’s Solid Waste Services Division enters a brave, new world this week, with the advent of its vaunted Recycle It! program that features a veritable army of very large and very green 96-gallon rollout recycling bins, part and parcel of a new single-stream collection system that proponents claim will make recycling easier and more efficient […]
Jokes about the abilities, or lack thereof, of some Charlotte motorists notwithstanding, blind drivers might soon be headed down a road near you. The National Federation of the Blind, in partnership with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is developing a vehicle that would use “non-visual interface” technologies, which transmit information to a driver […]
Photos by: Mark Pellin The annual Town of Matthews People’s Parade and Concert in the Park celebrated July Fourth with fun and smiles. [nggallery id=50]
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In the wake of a police-involved shooting at Timber Ridge apartments, the uptown paper of record ran a story that highlighted some residents’ complaints that a heavy police presence in the troubled apartment complex, aimed at reducing crime, “can sometimes feel like harassment and increase tensions.” The criticisms come after police there Thursday pursued and […]
In a move that could have dire ramifications for Charlotte-Mecklenburg and municipalities across the state, union bosses and their henchmen in the federal government are getting ready to ram through the Police and Firefiighters Monopoly Bargaining bill by attaching it to the War Supplemental, slated to be voted on tonight. We brought this abomination to […]
