New Year’s Eve House Party
From our House to yours, all the best for a healthy, prosperous and blessed New Year.
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).
Dim Bulb Despots
Despite a provision rolled into a year-end spending bill that blocked funding for enforcement of new light bulb efficiency standards, the twisty tyranny of bulbs will still start phasing in as scheduled on Jan. 1. The new energy law requires that incandescent light bulbs be 30 percent more efficient starting in 2012. Critics of the […]
Burr Saddles Up For Romney
Funny, I always thought Richard Burr was more politically aligned with Ron Paul. I mean, you know, when Burr wasn’t staying busy bolstering bank bailouts and deficit spending, supporting warrantless wiretapping, and playing Big Brother food cop. This from the Washington Post: Burr, a 17-year Capitol Hill veteran who served five terms in the House […]
Pedaling Push For DNC 2012
Charlotte is wheeling its way down a path to have a burgeoning bike-share program up and running in time for the Democratic National Convention, with an eye toward keeping the pedals churning long after the political circus leaves town. The city council’s Planning and Transportation Committee last month gave the green light to launch planning […]
BallantyneTown – “Let My People Go”
That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new ‘Town of Ballantyne’ If consolidation talk won’t die; Southern residents need Town […]
CALM Down: Nanny Government Rides To The Rescue
Just in time for the New Year, the federal government earlier this month stepped up to the plate and solved that most pressing of problems plaguing modern society. This from the always vigilant comrades at the FCC: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today took a major step toward eliminating one of the most persistent problems […]
Merry Christmas
Luke 2:1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up […]
Commissioner Calls For Investigation Of CMS School Board Vice Chairman
Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James has asked the county’s internal auditor to investigate possible improprieties or illegalities concerning salary and benefit payments made to the school board’s newly elected vice chairman, Mary McCray, when she was employed as a teacher by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and also served as president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE), […]
Wastebook 2011: Your Tax Dollars At Work
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) this week released his annual report on what he considers wasteful government spending. Whether you’re a hardcore fiscal conservative or a big government-loving progressive, common ground should be found in the conclusion that most of the examples Coburn cites can appropriately be considered squandered loot. From the cover letter of his […]
Musical Chairs Cacophony On County Board
When the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners wasn’t preoccupied at its meeting this week launching investigations into the possibly nefarious doings of one or more of their own, commissioners stayed busy tackling some of the top priorities of local governance. The meeting’s opening prayer and pledge were no sooner over and done when Commissioner Vilma […]
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