Send us a youtube clip of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is Waka Flocka Flame. Shocking, shocking I say, that this banger would be involved in any type of violent gun work in the Queen City. And now, to cleanse the assaulted musical psyche, we take another ride […]
Locked behind closed doors Tuesday night with tensions and tempers mounting, Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones had just finished explaining why he had pulled and released Commissioners Vice Chairman Jim Pendergraph’s personnel records from when the former sheriff retired in 2007, offering that Commissioner George Dunlap had requested the information last Thursday. The explanation drew […]
Don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors. Beverly Perdue’s proposed budget isn’t saving any teacher jobs, opting instead to disingenuously pass the budget ax to local counties, including Mecklenburg. It’s the same stunt Democrat legislators pulled this year, when they raided lotto funds and used the stolen loot to “save” teacher jobs, but at […]
Maybe the U.S. Postal Service should change its unofficial motto to ‘neither snow, nor rain, nor pricey flights to Spain and loads of porn’ will prevent delivery of the mail. A recently released Postal Service Inspector General’s audit found that postal workers were using government-issued credit cards meant for travel and lodging expenses to buy […]
Mecklenburg County is on the hook for potentially having to shell out more than $25 million in so-called compensated absences – largely accrued vacation leave and sick time pay, stretching back to 2007 – due workers when they eventually leave county employment. Last year alone, 649 former county employees received a combined total of about […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx has assured that city finances and taxpayers won’t be pinched by bringing the Democratic National Convention to Charlotte next year. Mecklenburg County, though, might be a different story. “There’s likely to be some additional cost associated with our planning for the DNC,” County Manager Harry Jones related as part of a budget […]
After Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones acknowledged misleading the public and his county commission bosses, and wrongfully outing protected personnel information of the county’s former sheriff and current board vice chairman, Jones apologized for his transgressions and walked away without so much as a formal reprimand from commissioners. Jones was on the hot seat Tuesday […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department could save everyone a whole lot of time and just concede that rates will increase every year for the foreseeable future, just like they have every year in the past. Drought? Doesn’t matter, rates will go up. Floods and typhoons? Rates will go up. Picture perfect weather? Guess what, your rates are […]
Debt On Arrival, that is, and it’s what House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) tagged President Obama’s budget proposal, released yesterday to nearly unanimous derision. “Debt on arrival. D-E-B-T on arrival,” Ryan said at a press conference. “Look, he raises spending everywhere. He raises taxes everywhere, increases borrowing. The trajectory of this budget is […]
Send us a youtube link of your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. Riding down that dusty trail today with The Highwaymen, submitted by House Guest DJ Adam Love.
