Saturday Night House Party
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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).
Hope and Change turns Doom and Gloom
As evidenced by the latest jobs report, which shows a complete cratering on nearly every front, with economists and analysts roundly predicting another major slump around the corner. Except not exactly wholly roundly; recall the wisdom of local shill artist John Connaughton, the guru with rose-colored glasses who cooked up a study to convince the […]
Edwards Dodges Guilty Verdict
After nine days of deliberation a jury found former golden boy Johnny Reid Edwards not guilty on one of six counts in a campaign-finance trail and deadlocked on the remaining charges, leading the judge to declare a mistrial on the outstanding counts. Edwards is guilty of myriad disgraces and serial sordid transgressions, but violating federal […]
McCrory vs. McCrory
Heading into a gubernatorial race against an opponent tied to the hip of an incredibly unpopular lame duck governor and a state Democrat Party that has become a local and national laughingstock for ridicule, you’d think it would be an easy ride to victory for Republican Pat McCrory. You’d be wrong. The latest polling from […]
How News Really Works
Discouragingly spot-on: h/t: Terry Mcintyre, whose Facebook thread always contains some golden nuggets.
Irresistible Headline Mash
This from ABC News: Which helps explain this from Politico: Not to be outdone, our uptown paper serves up this duo of headers that ran on the same day: Just sayin’
Knights Tap Underpants Gnomes Business Plan
In their latest effort to secure a minor league baseball stadium for uptown, city staff has tossed out a major league curveball with enough taxing twists to apparently sucker a majority of city councilmembers into taking a swing at a bad pitch. City staff claims its latest proposal strips any property tax loot from an […]
Super Gobbledygook and Bureaucratic Babble
Incoming CMS Superintendent Heath “Pete Repeat” Morrison says his first priority is to reach out and engage the public; so naturally, Morrison rolled out his vaunted 100-Days Entry Plan last week with a Friday afternoon document dump when most people had already checked out for the Memorial Day weekend. This guy should fit right in […]
Animal Farm Police State
Some food for thought about the direction our country is headed, if it hasn’t already reached a truly disturbing destination. This from BuzzFeed: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on […]
CMS Passes The Buck And The Blame
This week’s public hearing for the county manager’s recommended budget unfolded as predicted, with scores of teachers and education advocates packing the government center to pressure commissioners into providing additional funding to cover proposed pay raises for teachers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers, who have seen their salaries frozen since 2008, had the right message but the […]
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