Mecklenburg Commissioner George Dunlap had the perfect opportunity at Tuesday night’s board meeting to clear up pressing questions about why and when he requested the county manager to release protected personnel information of former sheriff and current commissioners vice chairman Jim Pendergraph. Dunlap instead spent nearly a half-hour ranting and braying about what he called […]
Or engage in other unlawful conduct, gross negligence of duties or willful malfeasance, according to the sweet-deal contract inked for Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones. Under the terms of that so-called employment agreement, if Jones were fired, even with cause, before December 31, 2011, he would be “treated as if he had completed 20 years […]
When politicians tell you it’s not about the money, you can usually bank on one certainty: it’s about the money. Take, for example, speed cameras. When they were rammed through the Queen City in 2005, politicians swore up one side and down the other that it wasn’t about money. It was about safety, we were […]
Leave it to Democrat Gov. Beverly Perdue to whip out the veto stamp and slam it smack down on teachers and taxpayers. That’s essentially what Perdue did this week in her first major tussle with the Republican-led legislature, when she vetoed the Balanced Budget Act. Perdue claims the bill, which included a Republican plan to […]
Billed as a nonpartisan effort to gather community input and consensus on what city and county services residents value most, and how far they’d go to support them as local governments look to cut budgets, the “Get Real 2011” initiative this week kicked off what organizers hope will be a series of public forums and […]
… in 3, 2, 1 – boom.
First we have Democrat legislators fleeing Wisconsin, holing up in out-of-state mystery locations to avoid voting on a fiscal bill designed to save help save the state from bankruptcy by limiting collective-bargaining rights for most state union member workers; now we have more of the same in Indiana. All because left-wing Democrat politicians, bastions of […]
It’s a neat trick if you can pull it off, which is apparently what the North Carolina Department of the State Treasurer did, according to a recently released report by the state auditor’s office. This from Forbes: In the report, the auditor states that State Treasurer Janet Cowell’s office failed to report $771 million in […]
Always vigilant House Guest columnist Michael Love forwards us an enlightening and sobering chart that’s been floating around the ‘net. Take a look for yourself and share your thoughts: January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 […]
For the taxpayers, that is, which could be lurking right around the corner from the sounds of recent developments. Eastland Mall’s new owner, Boxer Property, originally threw down a Christmas 2011 marker for reopening the shuttered retail goliath as a Hispanic-themed marketplace, but is already backing off the date. Boxer bought the Eastland property for […]
