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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).
Taxpayers Foot Bill For MeckCo Manager Tattoos
Harry Jones has logged more than a decade of history as manager of Mecklenburg County, complete with a wide-ranging mix of achievements and blunders, public acclaim and high-profile controversies that are all but certain to leave a lasting mark on local government. Last fall, though, Jones left a mark of a different sort; or more […]
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Former Queen City Councilmember Launches Effort To Sack Panthers Money Grab
As the Charlotte City Council once again proves its unbridled and bipartisan enthusiasm for spending other people’s money, trying their best to throw even more loot at the Carolina Panthers, it’s left to former councilmember Don Reid to play pulling guard for taxpayers. Reid, a Republican, has launched a grassroots campaign that’s encouraging folks to […]
SOTU Bingo 2013
Back by popular demand! A little something to help pass the time during tonight’s message from the great leader: the official PunditHouse State of the Union BoINGO Card. Feel free to play along at home – on the honor system, natch – by checking off any phrases or words that President Obama uses in his […]
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Blue Line Chips For A Streetcar Poker Game
There’s a tried and true maxim in high stakes poker, which successful card sharks ignore at their own peril: don’t bluff unless you’re willing to lose the pot. With that as a guiding principle, consider Gov. Pat McCrory’s recent use of his newly won bully pulpit as leverage to dissuade Charlotte city councilmembers from moving […]
Saturday Night House Party: Harbowl Edition
Ray retires on top; Ravens by 6
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Reval Rumble Redux – UPDATE: County Officials Say Nothing To See Here – UPDATE: Open Your Eyes
Just when you thought Mecklenburg County’s flawed 2011 property tax revaluation Big Heist couldn’t possibly get any more criminally incompetent and professionally bungled, we learn that yet another shoe might be about to drop. It starts with an email that Commissioner Karen Bentley received from a constituent expressing concern over the county’s recently hired new […]
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