In the ever increasing creep of the government nanny state into your daily life, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (in the Queen City today, by the way, to talk transit) said this week that the Obama Administration is exploring its options on how to block cell phone use in cars. This from The Daily Caller: Transportation […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners this week approved acceptance of a $340,000 grant that will be used to help combat crime and juvenile delinquency by teaching gangbangers the fine art of professional culinary skills. In the process, a popular West side recreational facility that was closed this year because of budget cuts will receive a new lease […]
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Inveterate liar, thief, drug addict and alcoholic Jim Black is getting back into the eye doc biz. What could possibly go wrong.
That’s the message floating down from Canada, where the Albert Human Rights Commission (AHRC) recently unveiled its new taxpayer-funded “Racism Free Edmonton” campaign. According to the group’s logic, the best way to solve the problem of racism is for white people to accuse themselves of being racists, acknowledge their “white privilege,” and maybe start displaying […]
Let’s see. How, oh how, could we possibly trim the projected $1.3 million shortfall over at the uptown racing museum? Let’s ask the three cheerleading chieftains supposedly in charge of driving tourism in the greater CharMeck region for some answers. Surely, with their combined salaries that approach nearly, well, what do you know, nearly $1 […]
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Faced with a budget crisis in New Jersey that’s impacting services across the board, including education, Republican Gov. Chris Christie pushed through a bill that would cap the salaries of school administrators based on the number of students in a district. The bill would also cut the salaries of administrators who make more than the […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Board of Education meeting Tuesday night to consider closing nearly a dozen schools and bring wholesale upheaval to dozens more started and ended with heated protests, accusations of racism, and often exasperated board members struggling with weighty decisions that all agreed provided no pleasant options. When the dust had settled, after a meeting that […]
A new set of rules to determine where subsidized housing can be built in Charlotte got a cold shoulder Monday night from the city council, which fretted that a proposed locational policy doesn’t go far enough to help disperse affordable housing throughout the city and would still leave some of Charlotte’s most fragile neighborhoods vulnerable […]
