Center City boosters and CharMeck police chieftains are heralding the success of Monday night’s July Fourth celebration, which managed to avoid a repeat of the melee that produced more than 70 arrests and one shooting death in the wake of last month’s Speed Street festival. Police reported only four arrests associated with the July Fourth […]
Nothing like wrapping up an Independence Day weekend with claims from a repeat criminal offender in Michigan that his Constitutional rights are being deprived because he is being denied access to porn in prison. Says it’s cruel and unusual punishment, or something. This from The Detroit News: Kyle Richards, 21, of Fraser filed the five-page […]
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Is there anyone even remotely associated with the Obama Administration who hasn’t gone off the deep end of true public embarrassment? It’s like some kind of twisted game of six degrees of separation. In this case, it comes via former Obama chief of staff and recently made Chicago mob boss mayor Rham Emanuel. One of […]
Like the mythical cat, the man just keeps on keeping on. Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones, who five months ago, embroiled in yet another scandal, was reduced to cutting a shameless video to proclaim he wasn’t leaving his $243K manager’s post any time soon, has been tapped as president of a statewide GovCo leadership group. […]
If you need a translation, ask Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin. I’m sure he could help. Earlier this week, during a Congressional hearing on the DREAM Act, Durbin asked hundreds of illegal aliens who had packed the room to stand and be recognized. One of them, Durbin said, could very well become the country’s next […]
A mixed bag of news on the local media front, with word that former WBT talker and PH contributor Pete Kaliner has landed a gig with News 14 covering the education beat, effective this Friday. That’s a huge win for Charlotte; Kaliner for years was one of the best and brightest reporters on the local […]
It wouldn’t seem to matter whether it comes up heads or tails, the taxpayers and commonsense lose either way. NPR, of all sources, has the details about the government’s latest adventures in fiscal folly: Unused dollar coins have been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a government program that […]
A divided city council on Monday night voted to withhold nearly $10 million in funding for the embattled Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, while simultaneously agreeing to provide the tourism booster group with $1.7 million for “business development purposes,” to be disbursed at the discretion of the city manager, and $800,000 in immediate funding to sustain […]
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note with a genuine degree of sadness the death of former Wolfpack hoops star Lorenzo Charles. This from ESPN: RALEIGH, N.C. — Lorenzo Charles, the muscular forward whose last-second dunk gave underdog North Carolina State a stunning win in the 1983 national college championship game, was killed Monday when […]
