And leaving a sleazy trail along the way, according to N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer. Perdue has in recent months disclosed that her gubernatorial campaign received 31 flights that did not comply with state campaign finance law. Last week her campaign forfeited $48,000 related to questionable contributions received from nine donors connected to a […]
Revisions that the city council approved Monday night to a program that provides loans to small businesses sparked debate about whether the initiative was more focused on social engineering and exerting government control over the private sector, than on creating new jobs for a community battered by high unemployment. With the approved program revisions in […]
Last weekend’s open house at Knights Castle was a big hit with fans. Photos by: Glen Simmons [nggallery id=18]
Charlotte skated by Trenton last Friday with a 4-3 win. Photos by: Glen Simmons [nggallery id=17]
Eliminating middle school athletics has become a nearly perennial threat used by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to help rally support for more local funding come budget season. Usually it works and somehow a last-minute, Hail Mary pass comes through to save sports, along with band, arts, and music programs. But this year, with CMS facing upwards of […]
Wet t-shirts are all that’s missing from the wanton binge-spending spree our Democrat-controlled board of commissioners has blazed under the leadership of Chairperson Jennifer Roberts. There’s simply no other way to put it, which is what made Roberts’s retort at this week’s commissioners’ meeting, that Democrats weren’t wholly responsible for the financial mess in which […]
Words have meaning, especially when you’re talking about libraries. So how about rewording an uptown paper of record poll, posted in response to news that the county is closing 12 libraries and cutting 148 jobs because of budget cuts. The poll predictably asks: Would you be willing to pay higher taxes to keep libraries open? […]
As we predicted, there’s movement afoot at CMS to tweak and/or consolidate at least some of the school system’s district offices that currently anchor so-called learning communities scattered across the county. Confirmation of such came about by pure happenstance: I recently found myself sitting beside a top-ranking member of CMS’ executive staff and overheard him […]
In an email sent over the weekend to all 11 members of the Charlotte City Council, Mayor Anthony Foxx warned his colleagues to not sexually harass city staff. The letter makes no reference to either who might be doing the alleged harassing, or who is being harassed. Even with a $70,000-a-year spokesperson, Foxx is declining […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners will have to wield a double-edge sword as they carve their way through the budget process. First they need to trim about $20 million in cuts from the current-year budget to bring it in line with tumbling revenues; then turn around and plan for hacking up to $95 million in targeted cuts […]
