The city council gave final approval of the multi-million-dollar Chiquita peel deal last week; county commissioners are on tap tonight to follow suit. A truly proud and progressive moment for Char-Meck GovCo and the company they keep:
Crime, both violent and property, declined across the board and across the country for the first half of this year, with Charlotte’s numbers reflecting much of the same, according to the FBI’s just-released preliminary semi-annual uniform crime report, which covers January through June 2011. In Charlotte with the help of the law firm for drug […]
Former city councilmember and well-connected about-towner Lynn Wheeler is reporting on her Facebook page that Char-Meck’s moneyed and political elites will be jet-setting across the pond to London for the 2012 Chamber Inter City Visit. Haven’t been able to confirm it yet; if true, chalk it up as one of the truly tone-deaf, bone-headed moves […]
While the $50 million of federal funding that Charlotte recently nabbed to help pay for security when the Democratic National Convention rolls into town has captured banner headlines, another large sack of security loot that’s landed in the Queen City’s lap has barely registered a blip of publicity. Maybe that’s because unless you were watching […]
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Thanks for all the calls and e-mails of support for my sister and our family; the prayers and kind words have been greatly appreciated. Beth had surgery this week and her doctors are confident that they were able to remove the whole cancerous tumor from her liver, providing for a very positive prognosis moving forward. […]
So I’m watching a clip of Attorney General Eric Holder sweating it in front of a House Judiciary oversight committee investigating the wholesale and deadly failure of Operation Fast and Furious, parsing words in an attempt to prevent burying himself even deeper into a pit of illegalities, perjury and criminality, and I’m pretty sure I […]
The Charlotte City Council isn’t alone in doling out lucrative incentive deals and perk packages for select companies, rolling dice with taxpayer money by trying to pick winners and losers so politicians can claim they’ve created jobs. While our Democrat-led city council was busy throwing boatloads of taxpayer loot at big banana Chiquita, the Republican-majority […]
Less than three days into his tenure as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Harold Cogdell is already neck deep in serious allegations of pay-to-play politics for his role in landing copious amounts of tax dollars for a local non-profit agency that subsequently hired him as its attorney. Some of the more notorious […]
My byline at PunditHouse is going to be on hiatus for the immediate future, as I take time to deal with a family situation. We learned last week that my sister has a cancerous tumor on an otherwise healthy liver – one of those inexplicable roundhouse kicks that life can deliver without warning. When it […]
