The controversial so-called Food Safety Bill that Senate Democrats hustled through a lame-duck session this week, with help from none other than North Carolina’s own alleged Republican Richard Burr, looks to be headed back into the chamber freezer. In the Senate’s haste to keep us lowly, ignorant food consumers safe from ourselves, the powers that […]
Alternate Headline: Raleigh’s Washington Monument Syndrome There’s no way the state can be threatening to pinkslip up to 5,300 teachers (CMS impact, 400 to 500) and scores of other classroom personnel because of budget constraints. I know this because the state is spending $10 million (Gov. Bev originally wanted $39M) to buy a bunch of nifty […]
Announces it on Twitter, no less, from the looks of this morning’s tweet from Union County DA John Synder: Excited to announce Marsha Goodenow joining my team of prosecutors! Goodenow, Mecklenburg County’s former top homicide prosecutor, was fired less than a week ago by outgoing DA Peter Gilchrist, who has yet to offer a public […]
Upset with the Obama Administration and the Democrat Party dragging feet on so-called immigration reform, Latino political leaders are contemplating a move to go rouge and they’re taking a page, not to mention a tip-of-the-hat moniker, from the Tea Party’s playbook. This from the Daily Caller: The idea, born of frustration over the party’s inaction […]
The Charlotte-area unemployment rate shrank slightly in October, to 10.2 percent from 10.6 percent the previous month, while Mecklenburg County’s unemployment dipped to 9.8 percent from 9.9 percent, according to numbers released today by the NC Employment Security Commission. That sounds like good news until you dig into the numbers, at which point we turn […]
Sanity comes close, but ultimately falls short, in Johnston County, where school officials are now requiring notes from parents if they don’t want their children to use lip balm, hand sanitizer or sunscreen while at school. As opposed to school officials’ original plan to outlaw lip balm from campuses unless parents sent notes stating their […]
With accusations that racism and financial discrimination were driving forces behind the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education’s decision to close predominately high poverty and minority schools on the city’s West side still stinging the community, flying under the radar has been the likely prospect that schools along the same educational corridor stand to reap millions of […]
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Is the Queen City’s vaunted Lynx light-rail line the next stop for virtual stripsearch scanners and junk-groping patdowns? Could be, from the sounds of Homeland Security Czarina Janet Napolitano. This from The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists […]
In a wholly predictable response to her political mentor’s plea of ‘I’m guilty, but not guilty like that” today, Gov. Beverly Perdue is urging folks (like, I don’t know, the GOP majority that just won control of the General Assembly) to leave the past in the past and focus on moving North Carolina forward. She […]
