It was equal parts amazing and amusing watching Commissioner Vilma Leake in action Tuesday night, but mostly it was flat-out scary. At issue was a vote by the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners to approve a change in the structure of the Fire Commission and receive an update on the county’s fire service assessment. The […]
Big Haps tonight, when The House Report debuts on The Pete Kaliner Show, WBT 1110 AM. PunditHouse will have a weekly segment with Pete every Wednesday at 9 p.m., so tune in your dials, kick back (unless you’re driving, if you’re driving don’t kick back) and enjoy. Kaliner is one of the best in the […]
Why? Dunno. But he is, with the federal Bureau of Prisons website now identifying Black’s release date as March 2011, a full year ahead of his projected release date of March 2012. Maybe Parks Helms, last seen huddling under his own cloud of shame and corruption, could provide a reason, probably plenty of them. Black […]
While pressing for a full-frontal assault to ram through a government takeover of your healthcare, President Obama is still having trouble managing his own. Despite the official line that he had kicked cigarettes to the curb, the president remains a nicotine junkie. As part of his first medical check-up since taking office, White House physician […]
A controversial set of development guidelines on schedule to become law later this year, along with some equally controversial regulations and ordinances already being enforced, drew heat at Monday night’s city council meeting. And it wasn’t the stereotypical, much-maligned, money-grubbing, big, bad developer who was breathing fire. It was advocates for affordable housing, or more […]
Or at least that’s the take-away from a POLITICO analysis of RNC expenditures under Chairman Michael Steele, which showed spending on everything from chartered private planes and limos to flowers and fancy food shooting through the roof. Hire top-dollar, celeb chef Wolfgang Puck to cater the annual Christmas party? Why not. Move the committee’s annual […]
As usual, Jeff Taylor over at The Meck Deck is ahead of the curve, this time breaking the story about a cool, new local website. It usually takes the uptown paper of record at least a few days to catch up with MeckDeck. Clock’s ticking.
It’s not uncommon for school districts to reward teachers with monetary bonuses for producing positive results in the classroom. In Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, they might want to consider providing hazard pay. During the most recently completed school year CMS logged a record-setting 169 reported incidents of assault on school personnel, along with myriad other types of […]
As sidewalks go, the city’s retrofit of one that borders a small stretch of Park Road is causing more anguish than the step-on-a-crack, break-your-mother’s-back jingle. First there’s the price, which tops out at a whopping $665,000 for about two blocks of sidewalk along Park Road, between Sunset and Poindexter drives. “The City of Charlotte is […]
A new twist that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools implemented for the 2008-09 school year triggered a sharp decrease in long-term out-of-school suspensions, which tumbled to only 48 from 1,055 the previous year. Short-term out-of-school suspensions, by comparison, increased significantly, totaling 36,211 for the 2008-09 school year, a jump of 5,726. Officials with CMS’ Alternative Education/Safe Schools Department […]
