Not content with pulling a $9.5-million rabbit out of the hat to bolster county revenue projections, county commissioners on Tuesday night worked some more money magic when they trimmed County Manager Harry Jones’ total pay package and simultaneously tossed him a nearly $27,000 pay hike. Commissioners nixed Jones’ performance bonus from future total compensation packages, […]
And it was friendly-fire, coming from ultra-leftist MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Real Clear Politics has the video here. Some pertinent shots taken at President Obama’s Oval Office Address on the oil spill: Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.” Matthews: […]
On the heels of city officials recently voting to fork over $1.4 million to bail out libraries and prevent the wholesale shuttering of branch locations, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night extended another dose of largess when it approved an agreement that will save a handful of county jobs. The council authorized City Manager […]
Faced with an $800-million shortfall in its operating budget and a state unemployment rate that tops 10 percent, the N.C. Senate on Monday night voted 46-0 to approve $542 million in construction bonds for a variety of projects scattered throughout the UNC system. Some of the big-ticket items up for grabs: a $45-million football complex […]
Former Mayor Pro Tem Susan Burgess was the consummate political animal, somebody who could work a vote count and know exactly what concessions needed to be made or demanded to achieve a desired result. I mean that as a compliment. Burgess, who is battling terminal cancer, resigned her seat on council last week with an […]
As attendance projections for the vaunted NASCAR Hall of Fame crash and burn from original estimates, falling some 35 percent off the mark, none other than the Wall Street Journal picks up on the massive debt Charlotte has absorbed from the racing venture, lumping it in with a load of other pricey boondoggles from around […]
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Leave it to big government to create a blue-ribbon commission that’s supposed to solve our crippling national debt crisis and, instead, ends up needing a financial bailout of its own. The Daily Caller has the details here.
Most folks these days know Pete Kaliner as the nine-to-midnight talker on WBT 1110-AM. People with a little longer memory know that Kaliner was also one of the best frontline news reporters to cover a beat in Char-Meck. Which is why it’s no surprise that he dug up this gem on city, county and school […]
Charlotte’s contentious rules on where to locate so-called affordable housing would see subtle but significant changes under a new policy that the city council’s Housing and Neighborhood Development (HAND) committee unanimously approved Tuesday afternoon. The proposed policy would scuttle existing criteria that define areas where the location of subsidized, multi-family housing developments is prohibited, permitted, […]
