The Charlotte City Council has sent a proposal to jumpstart a controversial red-light camera program to its public safety committee for more review. The program, which Charlotte operated from 1998 to 2006, places cameras at targeted intersections, snaps photos of cars running red lights, and issues tickets to the owners. Charlotte abandoned the camera initiative […]
Inspired by a few compliments from some visiting corporate consultants who gushed over uptown Charlotte’s trinkets and toys, Gov. Bev Perdue has apparently gone bat-guano crazy and is in a complete lather to take as much of your hard-earned coin as possible and use it as de facto bribe money to recruit businesses to North […]
The first of what could be a slew of fee increases to come down the county’s pike received tacit approval from Mecklenburg commissioners last week, when they green lighted a proposal from the county’s code enforcement department to hike building inspection and permit fees 4.7 percent across the board, along with targeted increases of up […]
Charlotte iced the Toledo Walleye with a 5-4 OT win Sunday night to skate their way into the conference semi-finals for the first time since the ’06-’07 season. The Checkers face off against Cincinnati on Friday, 7 p.m., at TWC Arena. Photos by: Glen Simmons [nggallery id=24]
In a scheduling feat of what can at best be called cruel irony, Mecklenburg Commissioners Chairperson Jennifer Roberts is slated to deliver her State of the County address on Thursday, April 15. Tax Day. Insert knife, twist, pour on salt. Here’s a primer on some buzzwords you can expect to hear from our Democrat-in-Chief: “painful” – […]
If there’s a bigger waste of money than Charlotte’s spiffy, new Wayfinding system and accompanying signs, I’m hard pressed to find it. And that’s saying something, considering the city’s billion-dollar-plus budget that’s stuffed with more pork than a pig farmer’s breakfast platter. In fact, about the only positive thing to be said of the city’s […]
A new community survey lends demonstrable evidence supporting what has to-date been a fairly nebulous, yet pervasive public sentiment: There exists a large disconnect between Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police statistics that show a steady reduction in crime and what many citizens view as the reality of every-day life on the streets. Police Chief Rodney Monroe, almost from […]
NCGOP chief Tom Fetzer is asking Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to resign. In a letter sent Thursday to Steele, Fetzer cites what he describes as grassroots rumblings of concern over “allegations of fiscal irresponsibility, management and questionable activities” from the RNC under Steele’s leadership, or maybe that should be lack thereof. Meanwhile, Sarah […]
I’ll be dropping in around 5:30 today to join Tara Servatius – WBT 1110 AM – for a talk on the city’s push for inclusionary zoning.
The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners was slated Tuesday night to discuss the governance structure of the public library system and pay levels for its executive administrators. Instead, the meeting turned into an ambush of the Library Board of Trustees. Commissioners, at times in heated exchanges, berated the trustees for not doing enough to inform […]
