Southern Conference Hoops Tourney
The Wildcats made an early exit, but last week’s SoConn tourney was a big hit in the Queen City Photos by: Glen Simmons [nggallery id=12]
An award-winning journalist and former editor of The Rhinoceros Times in Charlotte, Pellin has been called everything from a misguided troglodyte to a professional agitator. He prefers the label of a realist, the guy in the crowd telling everybody that not only doesn’t the emperor have any clothes; he’s trying to steal ours. Pellin has covered the Char-Meck scene for the better part of two decades, earning his fair share of fans and more than a few critics who wish he’d move to Nome, Alaska, and be eaten by wild bears. When he’s not writing, he stays busy enjoying time with his wife and two kids. When he can break away for some R&R, he likes to fly fish (even if he doesn’t catch anything) and camp (even if it rains).
CMPD And Reality TV
Let me get this straight: Police Chief Rodney Monroe has steadfastly refused to release the personnel files of a rogue cop accused of committing numerous sexual assaults while on duty, but the chief is more than ready and willing to bare the inner workings of his department’s homicide division on national TV? That’s the story […]
N.C. Jobless Rate Highest In 34 Years
Despite cherry talk from Gov. Bev Perdue about government-driven, job creation plans and the deployment of new small business commissions, committees and sub-committees feverishly spinning bureaucratic wheels to put North Carolina back to work, the state’s unemployment rate took another hit in January, increasing from 10.9 to 11.1 percent with more than a half-million residents […]
Local Government Going To The Dogs
The city council earlier this week approved renewing a contract with PetData Company to handle animal registration and pet licensing for the city. That might not seem like a big deal, but there’s plenty of bite behind the contract’s bark. PetData is paid a fee for each license sold, receiving $3.50 of the $10 charged […]
Rebuilding A Busted Bond
Faced with a bruising debt crisis that is bringing new borrowing to fund capital projects to all but a screeching halt, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education this week started a process of prioritizing school construction plans. Or maybe that should be re-prioritizing. When voters approved a record-high $516-million school bond in 2007, the board of […]
Lynx Ridership Tumbling Off Track
With half-cent sales tax revenue to run shiny choo-choos all over town plunging like a wounded duck, and likely triggering cuts to bus service and/or higher bus fares, now comes news that ridership for the $521-million Lynx Blue Line is on a steady decline. Transportation and transit guru David Hartgen has the data and Jeff […]
House Report Hiatus
The House Report’s regularly scheduled feature on The Pete Kaliner Show is taking a brief hiatus tonight, March 10, because of prevailing wisdom. Teeth, that is. Kaliner’s having his wisdom teeth yanked and will be out of studio, although it’d probably attract pretty decent ratings if they broadcast the operation live. We wish Pete a […]
CMS No Place For Education
I’m pretty sure school board member Richard McElrath didn’t mean for it to come out that way, but a motion he made to amend an amendment to the district’s anti-bullying policy sure sounded that way. As originally proposed the revised language read: “All persons on CMS campuses or present at CMS-sponsored events are expected to […]
CMS Grows Anti-Bullying List
With little debate and virtually no fireworks, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved some technical amendments to its existing anti-bullying policy that sparked community uproar when it was originally adopted in 2008. CMS already had rules on the book that prohibited bullying when it codified its stand as formal policy two years […]
Obama’s Debt Bomb Set To Explode
If federal deficits are nightmares, Freddy Krueger is leading the parade for the one headed our way. According to the latest from the Congressional Budget Office, President Obama’s budget would add nearly $10 trillion – trillion, with a T – to the national debt over the next decade. Even more troubling, the CBO estimates that […]
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