At least according to Gallup, which found in a recent poll that “two-thirds of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in their local governments to handle local problems, and a solid majority the same way about their state government.” So how do those confidence and trust numbers hold up for Char-Meck […]
In a similar vein as the warped concept that all students deserve a passing grade, or that every young athlete deserves a trophy, comes news that a football player has been benched for scoring too many touchdowns. In this case, it’s 11-year-old Demias Jimerson from Malvern, AK, where officials have reinstated what’s known as the […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners are slated to meet in closed session today to discuss a personnel matter that is linked to a new harassment policy the board is being asked to adopt later tonight at its regularly scheduled meeting, according to a source familiar with the situation. The personnel matter to be discussed behind closed doors […]
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Come one, folks; it’s obvious that Gov. Beverly Perdue was joking when she let this one fly while speaking to a Rotary Club: “The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines.” I mean, really, working across party lines with a Democrat Kleptocracy that for years abused […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials are trying their best to convince the masses that a newly christened, so-called talent effectiveness project has nothing – positively, without a doubt, absolutely nothing – to do with teacher evaluation, assessments and performance pay. That sales pitch was going great at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, until those same officials were […]
Team BO has finally found a way to create new jobs; in this case, it’s a veritable army of new government bureaucrats. Unfortunately, and wholly unsurprising, it will come at the cost of increased regulation that is almost certain to kill business and, by extension, actual, private-sector job creation: The Environmental Protection Agency has said […]
This has to rank as one of the more jarring political couplings of the year: Ron Paul and …. Barry Manilow? This from the Daily Caller: Grammy award-winning musician Barry Manilow told The Daily Caller that he agrees with “just about everything” 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul says, calling him a “solid” contender […]
It’d be nice to think it’s just an innocent editorial oversight when the uptown paper runs a banner headline that reads Judge orders immigrants removed from church, when the more accurate and honest header would be Judge orders illegal immigrants removed from country. The subterfuge, however, doesn’t end with just a headline that makes it […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools learned this week that it finally won the coveted Board Prize, after years of yearning and hundreds of millions of dollars spent in pursuit of the elusive Holy Grail of urban education. Indeed, during his tenure at the helm, former Superintendent Peter Gorman at times seemed on an almost Ahabian quest to land […]
