Or maybe that should be a soiled Red State, because this doesn’t deal specifically in the traditional, color-coded political sense that you’re probably thinking. This red has to do with ratings, as in from the American Petroleum Institute, which maps out the states with the highest combined local, state and federal gasoline taxes. Guess who […]
The Charlotte Knights, last seen hitting the city council up for a cool $11 million to help build their vaunted uptown stadium, recently told county officials that the team had secured sponsorship deals, to include stadium naming rights, required by the economic grant agreement being pondered by Mecklenburg County, which has already pledged $8 million […]
Says here that three tickets won the record-setting $640 million Mega Millons lottery jackpot; a lot of loot, to be certain, which would take any near-normal, rational person years to burn through. Know what’s not normal or rational? The Indy Star’s Gary Varvel does and puts the insanity that is our federal government in stark […]
That would be End of Month, for the acronym challenged; a new twist we’ve added to help keep the House up and running, in which we entreat readers for some financial support. A tip drive, if you will. Think of it this way: when you go out for dinner, most folks leave a tip for […]
The question started churning in my brain when Tea Party favorite, Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee, tossed his weight behind Mitt Romney. The churning turned into a rumbling with a formal Romney endorsement from George H.W. Bush, along with one from Florida’s Sen. Marc Rubio. And now this: That’s a mighty load of churning and rumbling […]
Alternate headline – McCrory: “I Am Not a Sheep” – shamelessly stolen from guerilla blogger Jeff Taylor, who runs down our former mayor’s strange assemblage of a Gov2012 campaign team: Pat McCrory — long regarded as an easy mark by GOP consultants looking to take his money — has hired Fred Davis to helm his TV […]
The Charlotte City Council approved spending $541,000 this week to install decorative streetlights in two urban neighborhoods, but not before lighting up accusations of class warfare and reopening a contentious debate on the tens of thousands of dollars the city continues to pay every month for streetlights that don’t work. The city has an annual […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James blasted out an email this week that pretty much speaks for itself and is sure to ruffle some feathers as 1) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools enters its budget season with a request of $27.5 million in additional funding from the county and 2) a group of residents, largely from Mecklenburg’s southern and northern […]
They probably don’t know it, but the Occupy Charlotte movement is gearing up to protest the exorbitant cost of light rail. Their specific target is bus/rail fare increases being proposed by the Charlotte Area Transit System, which Queen City occupiers – last seen being rousted from their uptown encampment – are encouraging folks to speak up […]
CNN’s Howard Kurtz seems perplexed over why MSNBC would allow Al Sharpton to be both an active and leading participant in rallies that have erupted around the Trayvon Martin shooting case and also a news anchor covering the same. This from NewsBusters: “How can MSNBC allow that?” Kurtz wondered about Sharpton whom he sees as […]
