Under the county manager’s proposed budget of largesse, commissioners stand ready to receive a nearly 70 percent increase for their so-called allowances. Overall, the board’s total allotment would increase to $418,715, a 12 percent jump from the current $372,629. Part and parcel of the perk pump, each commissioner would receive $7,200 for a nebulously titled […]
As cases of disconcerting irony go, this one’s a doozie. Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of California must release roughly 33,000 inmates to alleviate overcrowding in its prisons, comes a report that California prison officials have mistakenly let loose a horde of violent offenders. This from the L.A. Times: […]
GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone let loose a media release today calling on Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts and the county board to go back to the drawing board with the revaluation process: Stone called for this “Reval Redo” so that process can be performed more fairly and so that the values more closely reflect actual […]
It still has to be reconciled with the House budget and clear Gov Bev’s desk, two high hurdles to be certain, but for now it appears the latest leg of Charlotte’s vaunted light rail express has been derailed. Or not. The NC Senate budget unveiled yesterday clips $22.5 million that would help fund the state’s […]
Queen City NAACP chief Kojo Nantambu, last seen making a general nuisance by disrupting school board meetings with counter-productive, self-serving, headline-grabbing protests, was at it again this week, only this time taking his act to the bigger stage of the General Assembly. Nantambu was among six protestors arrested by legislative police on Tuesday, after shouting […]
More than 88,000 households can look forward to a tax increase in excess of 20 percent if the county board approves a rate-neutral budget being pushed by Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. That number would drop to just shy of 60,000 households facing a 20 percent or more tax hike under a revenue-neutral budget plan. The […]
As Big Ben winds down the second round of so-called quantitative easing, MarketWatch’s Brett Arends takes an objective look at what dumping $600 billion of phantom currency into the market has accomplished: Turns out the program has created maybe 700,000 full-time jobs — at a cost of around $850,000 each. House prices are lower than […]
What happens when a federal agency, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, throws it weight around in a blatant attempt to block a private business from doing business? Tyranny happens. That’s the take from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who doesn’t pull any punches with his assessment of the government hatchet job and general […]
Fresh off squashing the CIAA tickets kickback scheme with a revision to their ethics policy, Mecklenburg County commissioners were informed last week by the county’s legal department that they could not accept free tickets to attend the NASCAR Sprint Cup All Star Race, courtesy of an invitation extended by Charlotte Motor Speedway. The same prohibition […]
I thought I had the perfect lede lined up for an article that tied into yesterday’s Meck Dec anniversary. It was going to compare the original patriots who told a king to take a flying leap to the mass of concerned citizens who showed up at Thursday night’s public hearing to protest the county manager’s […]
