Bracing for the looming budget season, library leaders have already begun rolling out dire scenarios that warn of multiple branch closings and layoffs if the county doesn’t come off the hip with at least flat funding. This from a library system that saw its budget reduced by $10 million this year, but still received $21 […]
Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat, managed to retain her seat Monday night as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, sidestepping a brewing coup that could have stripped her of the title she’s held for the last four years and led, instead, to a bipartisan leadership-sharing role with a former sheriff and Democrat-turned-Republican, Jim Pendergraph, […]
You have to absolutely appreciate the Machiavellian timing on the release of a task force report that finds the city’s public safety plan “financially unsustainable without large budget cuts or increased taxes,” coming as it does well after elected officials, city government and the uptown media and power structure successfully convinced voters that we could […]
Or so says Fed chief Ben Bernanke, declaring that another round of frenzied government spending might be necessary to keep the economy afloat because the most recent round of frenzied government spending – i.e. the Fed floating $600 billion in so-called “quantitative easing” a.k.a. QE2 – might not have done the trick. This from POLITICO: […]
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It’s come to this. Big Brother Government, with a nanny state fostered by Big Mamma Michelle, dictating what types of treats and goodies kids can and cannot sell at school fundraisers. Or eat at school breakfasts, lunches and, apparently coming soon, dinners. Because we, as parents, are obviously either too ignorant or uncaring to manage […]
Love him or hate him, you ignore him at your own peril. This time around, tea party favorite Rep. Ron Paul is righteously once again gunning for the Fed, only this time while defending WikiLeaks frontman Paul Assange. “In a free society, we’re supposed to know the truth,” Paul recently told FOX Business News. “In […]
Seems a palace coup is in the works on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, according to this report from WBTV’s Steve Crump that has Democrats squabbling over whether Jennifer Roberts, the top at-large vote getter in November’s election, should remain chairman of the board. Harold Cogdell, the board’s incumbent vice chair who placed third […]
Who gets hammered the worst: Charlie Rangel in the House today, or LeBron James in Cleveland tonight?
Appalling. Instead of a stiff fine or penalty – I’m thinking tarred, feathered and hauled down Tryon Street – former United Way leader Gloria Pace King is set to walk off with a $700K check. Just fills you with the holiday spirit, doesn’t it?
