The burgeoning problem posed by coyotes running loose in Charlotte-Mecklenburg has received its share of headlines recently, while another public menace from the wild has lingered in relative obscurity. Until now. The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department is launching a program that focuses on the “reduction and removal of the beaver populations at Beatty […]
Local rail-transit cheerleaders have for years been shaking their pom-poms trying to gin up support for the half-billion dollar Red Line, a 25-mile commuter rail project slated to run from uptown Charlotte to Mooresville. They’ve cooked-up multiple studies to show the purported economic and social benefits the Red Line would produce; held public forums stacked […]
Mecklenburg commissioners get a second crack tonight to pass a new ordinance that would prohibit camping and unauthorized use of county-owned land, which failed two weeks ago to get the unanimous support from the board it needed to be approved. This time around, it will only require a majority vote to be adopted. What’s at […]
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It’s too often too easy to criticize Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a bureaucratic behemoth rife with inefficiencies and bumbling failures that a multi-million dollar PR machine spins as unmitigated successes. So it’s a rare pleasure to be able to offer legitimate and deserved praise. This week, school district officials and the Charlotte Fire Department honored bus driver […]
OK, probably not the most romantic headline to jumpstart Valentine’s Day, but it is what it is. In this case, it’s the ostensible GOP Not-Mitt of the Moment, Rick Santorum, holding forth that while it’s a rightful abomination for the Obama administration to force religious-affiliated groups to provide employees with insurance coverage for birth control, […]
It’s been 1,000-plus days since the Democrat-controlled Senate last passed a budget, which it’s legally mandated to do … every year. It’s been, um, nearly three – and still no budget. Don’t expect one anytime soon. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already publicly and proudly flipped off the notion of following the law and […]
How dysfunctional is the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners? Here’s a good barometer: this week they managed to simultaneously pass a new ordinance without adopting it, essentially hanging out a “Campers Welcome” sign and leaving a door open for the Occupy movement to take up quarters on county-owned property. An ordinance that would prohibit camping […]
Over/Under on how much local GovCo will end up spending in its pursuit to contain or eradicate coyote: I’ll put it at $365K and roll with the Over. In any event, county commissioners heard an update on the area’s burgeoning coyote trouble during their meeting this week. This from WCNC: Over the past few months, there’s […]
Yes, Sue Myrick did admirable work during her early term-limit pledge years to advance the conservative cause; but after nine terms, a borderline-irrational obsessive fixation on Muslims, and wrangling to land fed funds for Charlotte’s light-rail Lynx Blue Line boondoggle, her act had grown somewhat tiresome. Myrick announced yesterday that she wouldn’t be seeking re-election, […]
