How’s this for a twist: Food police cheerleader and alleged Republican Sen. Richard Burr votes for a so-called compromise tax deal, which will pile $858 billion onto the national debt, while Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat, votes against it. This from the Raleigh N&O: “It is time for Congress to tighten its belt, like American […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education weaved through myriad twists and turns Tuesday night navigating its way through possible busing changes that might be lurking around the bend next year, as officials grapple with budget cuts projected to top $100 million. A preliminary roadmap that district officials rolled out included proposals that could cut nearly $19 […]
With the NASCAR Hall of Fame racing into the red and the chiefs of uptown booster groups making headlines for their exorbitant salaries, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night unanimously voted to review the city’s dealings with four of its so-called financial partners. The council’s budget committee is being tasked with the chore, but […]
In other news, CMS boosters say CMS is awesome. Really, what did we expect a study of Mecklenburg County parks, commissioned by the county parks and recreation department and conducted by a conservation group that supports parks, to say? The only outcome more certain and preordained than the results of the Trust for Public Land’s […]
A 16-year-old Air Force JROTC student apparently eludes airport security at Charlotte-Douglas International, climbs into the wheel well of a US Airways jet bound for Boston, and plummets to his death from the sky over that city. A Massachusetts prosecutor investigating the case calls it a “major breach of security,” while Charlotte airport director Jerry […]
A federal judge in Virginia delivered a blow today to the Obama Administration’s new healthcare law, ruling that one of its major components – a requirement for people to purchase healthcare – is unconstitutional. This from FOX News: Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday for the state’s claim that the requirement for people to purchase […]
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And not just from Dems outraged over the president’s so-called compromise on a tax deal. No, the real feat apparently has been The One’s superhuman powers to resist the temptation of lighting up. This from CBS News: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acknowledged President Obama’s smoking habit Thursday — but said the president has […]
WBTV is reporting that former CMPD Detective Arvin Fant – he of the plagiarized, lost and destroyed notes that deep-sixed the death penalty in the trial of convicted cop-killer Demeatrius Montgomery – has been suspended without pay, pending a termination hearing before the Civil Service Board. Meanwhile, former rouge cop Marcus Jackson is due in […]
More bombings, violence and mayhem, that is; according to radical Islamoterrorist Anjem Choudary. This from MSNBC, where Choudary is at one point described as “mild-mannered”: LONDON — It is a Sunday night in London’s East End and the self-styled “most hated man in Britain” is holding court, reveling in his vision of a Taliban victory over […]
