The Supreme Court is geared up for what will be one of the most significant legal showdowns in its history, when arguments will be heard over the next three days on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a. Obamacare. The nuances and legalities are many, the importance equally huge. To set the stage, Adam Freedman over […]
I mean aside from that Heels/Bobcats squeaker last night. Or that Wolfpack heartbreaker. No, I’m talking here more along the lines of government subsidies, to the tune of $2.7 billion. That’s how much the 13 venues hosting games during the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament have received in the form of government largess, a.k.a. local, state […]
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Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The Queen City goes green with uptown’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. [nggallery id=19]
What happens when police get the bright idea that it’s perfectly acceptable to detain and handcuff reporters, and ignore that pesky little First Amendment thing? This from Chicagoist: Chicago Police detained two reporters outside a hospital where a drive-by shooting victim was being treated Sunday. Apparently at the request of Mt. Sinai hospital security guards, […]
Former WBT talk show host and award-winning journalist Tara Servatius resigned yesterday from her freelance writing gig with the John Locke Foundation’s Meck Deck blog, in the wake of criticism for posting a crude image of President Obama that accompanied an article she wrote. The image – a photoshopped picture of Obama in garish drag, […]
How’s this for synergy in action: this week the city rolls out a tax-hike budget; next week the city rolls out a new fleet of electric cars and charging stations. Shocking, right – but not to worry. The electric cars venture is being funded with support from a grant through the Department of Energy; so […]
City Manager Curt Walton this week pitched a $1 billion budget plan that calls for a 4-cent property tax hike, a 9-percent increase that would surely help Charlotte remain a contender in its apparent bid to have its citizens continue shouldering the highest total tax burden in the state. Walton and city staff said the […]
It seems the NYC brigade is pulling out all the stops, with the Bloomberg administration “blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.” Because the mayor is worried about their intake of salt, or something. This from the New York Post: In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health […]
Facing a bleak financial future and the near certain death of its programming this summer, public broadcast station WTVI got a million-dollar, midnight-hour reprieve when county commissioners late Tuesday night approved merging the station with Central Piedmont Community College. As part of the deal CPCC, which will take over administrative management, operation and programming of […]
