Just a friendly reminder that these are the folks who will be making your healthcare decisions and keeping track of the costs. This from The Hill: Despite a ban on funding for sexual or erectile-dysfunction treatments, Medicare improperly paid $3.1 million for the treatments over a two-year period, according to a new internal report. Medicare’s […]
Or more accurately, the district’s continued privatization tap dance, which has been ongoing for nearly a decade with few demonstrable gains. Recall that way back in 2005 the vaunted CMS Citizens Task Force unveiled what was at the time hailed as bold and sweeping recommendations for improving CMS operations and management. Chief among them was […]
UPDATE: Um, nevermind As rail-transit enthusiasts and cheerleaders for big government spending celebrate clearing a hurdle that would land North Carolina upwards of $461 million in federal grants for high-speed rail from Charlotte to Raleigh, a growing number of Republicans in the General Assembly are hopping on board legislation that would require the state to […]
Legislation that would outlaw the use of all but hands-free cell phones while driving is apparently drawing bipartisan support in the General Assembly, with the House slated to discuss the proposal this week. The penalty for driving and gabbing sans a hands-free device would be a $100 fine. Drivers could still use a hand-hand cell […]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
The Mecklenburg Union Metropolitan Planning Organization paved the way this week for Charlotte’s streetcar project to roll down the tracks, voting to amend its long-term 2035 transportation plan to allow the streetcar to leapfrog other projects in order to secure federal funding. The MUMPO’s decision was the last hurdle that needed to be cleared for […]
Billions, that is, and it still had some alleged fiscal conservatives on their heels bemoaning what amounted to a drop in the bucket of much needed spending cuts. This from CNSNews: The national debt jumped by $72 billion on Tuesday even as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the […]
Stealing a page from the county manager’s playbook, the city manager and police chief have apparently taken to treating the city council and the public like mushrooms: keep them in the dark and feed them crap. In this case, it takes the form of City Manager Curt Walton coming before council last month and explicitly […]
A contingent of Charlotte councilmembers and city staff is living large in the nation’s capital this week, soaking up lessons on how to grow government and spin the public at the annual National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. Charlotte taxpayers will likely shell out in excess of $15,000 for the five-day event, to include […]
