The double-digit lead Republican Pat McCrory held over Democrat Walton Dalton has evaporated like so much pixie dust in the wind, to the point where the state’s gubernatorial race is nearly a dead heat within the margin of error of the latest Rasmussen poll that finds McCrory leading Dalton by only 5 points (46% to […]
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Charlotte’s proposal to ban cell phones while driving likely hit a major hang-up this week with news that a similar ordinance in Chapel Hill has hit a legal brick wall. This from the Herald-Sun: Town leaders expressed surprise and frustration Thursday at the news that the town’s controversial towing ordinance and cellphone ban was shot […]
They say everything is bigger in Texas. I’m not sure about that, but this is huge: In a long-shot victory that could help define the conservative tilt of the Senate, tea-party-backed Ted Cruz defeated an establishment Republican on Tuesday in the hard-fought GOP primary runoff in Texas. The outcome is not expected to tip the […]
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has declared Aug. 1 to be national “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” encouraging folks to show support for the company in response to the withering criticism and boycott threats it has received after its owner noted his company supported the Biblical definition of traditional marriage. Naturally, Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James weighed in […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is getting ready to plunge into the deep end of the technology pool this year, having shelled out upward of $6 million for all schools to sport wireless Internet access, along with spending about $5 million to provide iPads and training for select teachers and administrators to help facilitate academic excellence. The Board […]
Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx appears to be the driving force behind a letter that has been quietly circulated to a select group of “thoughtful” community leaders, encouraging them to lobby Mecklenburg commissioners to support moving forward with a so-called Charter Study Commission to be charged with preparing a report on and plan for consolidating the […]
How real is the potential for brute ugliness and mayhem, accompanied by a full-scale police state descending uptown when the DNC rolls its party into Charlotte? Plenty real to judge from the DHS ramp-up to prepare not only for the Queen City bash, but also its RNC counterparty down in Tampa. The Department of Homeland […]
While they were busy in Happy Valley tearing down the statue of Joe Paterno, guess what the former president of Penn State University, the guy who was forced from office in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal that unfolded under his watch as he sat mute and dumb at the helm, […]
And I’m not talking about the opening ceremonies for the Olympics, although there were multiple moments during that marathon saga of leftist overindulgence that would have qualified. But they pale compared to the creepy reality of the armed fortress of occupation the city has become for the Games. Let’s start with surface-to-air missiles mounted on […]
