How’s that hope and change thing working? This from ZeroHedge, on GDP vs. Debt and what portends to be a very scary Halloween for the nation’s economic coffers coffins: We decided to dig into the actual numbers (cancelling out the per capital denominator as it is the same on both sides of the equation) and […]
A $340,000 grant from the federal government to help launch a culinary arts program to provide job training and employment opportunities for gang-involved juveniles has apparently been smoldering on the backburner for nearly a year, leaving county officials scrambling for answers about how the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Gang of One program has been administering the […]
In case you missed it the first time around, Vice President Joe Biden earlier this month was left grasping for hardcore scare tactics to push the administration’s sagging Jobs Act, arguing that its passage, in addition to helping the economy, would also, miraculously, prevent murder and rape from occurring on large scale: When the message […]
It’s more common seeing pigs flying over the Queen City’s world-class skyline than it is to catch the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg endorsing a Republican candidate for office; so color me shocked to see Christopher Hailey’s name lumped in with Patrick Cannon and David Howard, two incumbent Democrats, as the BPC’s favored picks for […]
Send us a link with your favorite tunes and vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. This one goes out to the Queen City’s dim bulbs, from hal hood who notes: “for all those enduring the darkness of the city council. i listened to this several times,thanks for the impetus.” To which we’ll add a […]
The City of Charlotte is plugged into a contract that requires paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for streetlights that don’t work, leaving taxpayers zapped with a high-voltage shock to the pocketbook. On any given week up to 10 percent of the city’s 80,000 streetlights are inoperable, usually the result of something as […]
Send us a link with your favorite tunes or vids (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. Kicking things off we have guest House DJs Jason Slone, with a classic from Rush, and proud new papa Adam Love with some old school Blues Brothers. I couldn’t resist a matching set:
For the acronym-challenged reader, that headline translates as Board of County Commissioners: We Love You Atlantic Coast Conference. To the tune of a quarter of a million dollars, no less, which is how much taxpayer loot commissioners doled out this week to help score some image-branding points and economic development jolt supposedly tied to the […]
The former Minnesota Vikings star quarterback scores with a persuasive argument in favor of performance pay for teachers. This from The WSJ: Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league. It’s about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for […]
In a newly released campaign video for his not-yet-a-campaign gubernatorial campaign, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory announced he wouldn’t be making an announcement until next year to announce his candidacy for governor. The non-announcement announcement has something to do with campaigns being too long and expensive, from what I could gather. This from a man […]
