As Occupy Wall Street protesters continue to linger in Charlotte and across the state, their ongoing encampments soaking up taxpayer dollars and oftentimes wreaking general havoc, support for the movement is losing ground as it compares to the popularity of the Tea Party, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey. Asked to choose between […]
They say everything is bigger in Texas; I guess self-implosions are no exception. The scariest part about watching Rick Perry’s brutal brain freeze on stage during last night’s debate – aside, you know, from him not being able to name the three Cabinet agencies his flat tax and streamlined government would eliminate – is that […]
With all the tumult and turmoil that has roiled Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the past year, voter turnout in the countywide at-large Board of Education race trickled in at a pitiful pace, with nearly 90 percent of registered voters opting to sit on the couch and eat Cheetos. The unofficial numbers from the elections board showed that […]
When a neighbor asked me Tuesday afternoon for tips on the best way to keep up with election results that would come rolling in later that evening, my advice was fairly simple: start drinking early and hope to pass out before things get too ugly. I should have taken my own advice. With 100 percent […]
Let’s start with the obvious, which in this case would be yet another possible security breach at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. This time around it involved a Nov. 1 incident of a US Airways employee “accessing airport premises by not using proper protocol,” in the vicinity of an allegedly secure baggage area. The employee has been […]
Not that it’s necessarily a slam-dunk portent of ballots yet to be cast (or boxes to be held and stuffed, for the cynics and conspiracy theorists among us), but totals from early voting in Charlotte indicate that Republicans will have their work cut our for them and ground to gain on Election Day. Of the […]
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Former Meck Deck chieftain and guerilla blogger Jeff Taylor dissects the gross hypocrisy inherent in Pat McCrory’s recent criticism of the Occupy Charlotte movement and the former mayor’s previous propensity to embrace the Teamsters occupation of Queen City transit ops. The fact is that one of the greatest bumps ever given to organized labor in […]
It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention, but this takes it to a new and truly twisted level. Facing up to 15 years in prison for charges of cocaine and heroin possession, a Salt Lake City man by the name of Jaime Alvarado essentially copped a get out of jail free card by […]
Seems some other local media have clued into the fact that Occupy Charlotte comes with a bill. One that’s growing bigger by the day. When we first reported last week on the cost, the tally stood at $92,224 for services related to policing the Occupy movement since it started on Oct. 1. The price tag […]
