New York City this week outlawed smoking in parks. New York City is World Class. With 1 being not a chance and 10 a sure thing: over/under on whether our World Class uptown lunch bunch pushes for something similar here before the DNC rolls into town. Built-in waiver clause, natch, for Obama and delegates. I […]
About halfway through President Obama’s national kumbaya address last month, I found myself wondering who could be gullible and dim enough to actually believe The One was moving to the center-right in all but pure sophistry and disingenuous rhetoric. I should have known: The president has become more centrist, which makes him easier to work […]
Politicians like to call it “creating jobs” by “recruiting business” or “awarding investment grants,” which sounds a lot more wholesome and clean that what it really is, which of course is bribery. And not just any bribery, but the very best kind, sanctioned by the state, which enables the same politicians who take your money […]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Johnson & Wales University tops off the debut of the Dream Machine recycling initiative on campus with the school’s annual One-Ton Sundae event. [nggallery id=121]
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina Davidson Wildcats top College of Charleston with a 75-64 win. [nggallery id=120]
This is why the Tea Party will have legs. Despite the alleged Republican resurgence in Congress, there’s already emerging evidence backing the old cliché that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Here we have so-called conservatives throwing their weight and support not only behind insanely expensive and ultimately ineffective high-speed rail […]
Maybe, or maybe Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is talking out of both sides of her mouth. From one side, McCaskill is proclaiming bitter disappointment that Charlotte topped St. Louis in the bid to land the 2012 DNC. From the other side, McCaskill is reportedly not only breathing a sigh of relief, but was […]
After a week’s worth of squabbling about whether to vote on earmarking a $10 million special grant to help save the Bright Beginnings pre-kindergarten program, Mecklenburg commissioners on Tuesday night stepped up to the plate and resolutely deferred a decision until April. The move leaves the fate of Bright Beginnings in tenuous limbo, with the […]
It’s not clear from this report exactly what prompted Charlotte-Mecklenburg police to launch new “enhanced security measures” for local elected officials, other than some vague reference to recent shootings in Arizona and Florida. How some crazed lunatic opening fire in Arizona and claiming the lives of six people and injuring 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle […]
No shocker here, and officials continue to insist it won’t cost taxpayers a boatload of cash or bring local merchants a ton of headache. We shall see, when any and all paperwork, memorandums of understanding, and agreements between the city and the DNC settle, bringing any possible side deals, subsidies or outright payments from the […]
