Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is going to have to get every dime’s worth out of its multi-million-dollar PR budget to spin their way out of this one: firing teachers in front of their students. Nice touch. Next up, the school board clubs baby seals during CMS-TV’s penultimate episode of UpFront! with Superintendent Peter Gorman.
Could be $198.6 million. That’s the size of the bond city leaders are currently floating: $156.6 million for transportation (79 percent of total package); $32 million for neighborhood improvements (16 percent); and $10 million for affordable housing (5 percent). Call me crazy, but asking voters to approve spending nearly $200 million when unemployment continues to […]
… and Cardinals and Archbishops, too. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has taken to the pulpit, almost literally, her zealous pitch to legalize the status of millions of illegal voters, er, aliens. Earlier this month, Pelosi was staying busy encouraging Catholics of the cloth to start using their preaching powers to push immigration reform. “The cardinals, […]
State lawmakers opened their legislative short session in Raleigh yesterday with a wild card, floating a bid to bring back video poker that could potentially raise a pile of new cash – about $350 million for the first year and up to $576 million by the third year. Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, […]
In today’s top story, Matthews native, Butler Bulldog alum and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covergirl Brooklyn Decker has been crowned the second most beautiful woman in the world by Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 List. Additional verbiage not required.
Despite an encouraging report from the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association, which showed homes sales up 25 percent last month compared to April 2009, the Queen City still got get kicked to the curb by MainStreet. MainStreet.com, that is. The consumer website recently compiled a list of cities where the recession seems to be fading and […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones says he won’t be recommending raises this year for county employees, but is keeping the possibility of a fat bonus for himself on the table. And isn’t that exactly the kinds of inspiring news you want to be reading, if you’re a county employee burning the candle at both ends […]
A fractious Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to approve a schools budget that includes plans to slash upwards of 600 teacher and teacher assistant positions, implement a pay-to-play scheme for middle- and high school sports, increase class sizes while shrinking transportation options to popular magnet schools, and have students pay fees […]
Less than 12 hours before the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education is slated to approve a recommended budget that slashes teacher positions, guts teacher assistants positions, and further reduces funding for campus security associates, a .22-caliber handgun brought to school by a third-grader was discharged inside a classroom at University Meadows Elementary. No injuries were reported. […]
I can count on one hand – OK, maybe one or two fingers – the number of times I’ve agreed politically with Susan Burgess. She’s a raging liberal and hardcore leftist who pushes an agenda that embraces expansive and expensive government. That said, Burgess always finds time to return phone calls from reporters, is willing […]
