City officials are again conceding, this time in writing, what all us ignorant cavemen knew way back during the half-cent sales tax repeal vote: Charlotte’s transit system is wholly unsustainable. So naturally, the braintrust behind the plan wants “new long term revenue sources for transit.” That’s government-speak for new taxes and/or fees and city officials […]
Jonathan Weil, with Bloomberg News, seems to think so, or at least that Bank of America is near slipping back into the financial graveyard after reaping accolades for repaying its its first round of TARP loot. Weil, in fact, isn’t ruling out another bailout ask looming on the horizon, given BAC’s shrinking stock price and […]
Pentagon dismisses India armada claim as “absolutely absurd” and “comical.” White House mouthpiece Robert Gibbs shoots down $200M per day price tag. Oh that whacky Indian media. This from ABC News: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell did not shy away from dismissing reports that appeared in Indian media outlets, such as the Press Trust of […]
Obama’s trip to India will cost $200 million a day: The story has been making the rounds, and even landed Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in hot water with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, but really – $200 million a day? So reports New Delhi TV: Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs.900 crore […]
Sweet:
From the Randslide in Kentucky to impressive wins in key battleground states across the electoral map, the GOP’s takeover of the US House was bolstered by the sway of an insurgent tea party movement and heralded a resounding repudiation of the policies and politics of President Barack Obama and soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. […]
This one is particularly sweet. It wasn’t so long ago that I had the pleasure of editing the random musings of Mick Mulvaney, back when he was a regular contributing columnist for The Rhino Times in Charlotte. He was an anti-big government, pro-free market renegade then and he still is today, only now he’s got […]
Republican Richard Burr rumbled to an easy victory last night, trouncing Democrat Elaine Marshall by a 56 to 43 percent margin to retain his US Senate seat. Although you’d never know if you had your eyes on Mecklenburg County, where Marshall took Burr to the woodshed, nearly flipping the statewide tally and capturing 52 percent […]
The GOP simultaneously bucked and repeated history Tuesday night in an election that saw Republicans capture both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, while again coming up painfully short in their attempt to wrest majority control of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. And in […]
Board of Education Chairman Eric Davis says CMS doesn’t have anything to hide and will fully cooperate with the local NAACP’s request for an outside financial audit of the district, but won’t come off the hip to foot the bill. That burden, Davis said, should fall on the rabble-rousers calling for a review of CMS’ […]
