A Friendly Reminder
One-stop early voting in Mecklenburg County continues tomorrow, Sunday, and next Saturday, Oct. 30. A list of polling locations and times is available here. Make it count: h/t: Frank Hill
An award-winning journalist and former editor of The Rhinoceros Times in Charlotte, Pellin has been called everything from a misguided troglodyte to a professional agitator. He prefers the label of a realist, the guy in the crowd telling everybody that not only doesn’t the emperor have any clothes; he’s trying to steal ours. Pellin has covered the Char-Meck scene for the better part of two decades, earning his fair share of fans and more than a few critics who wish he’d move to Nome, Alaska, and be eaten by wild bears. When he’s not writing, he stays busy enjoying time with his wife and two kids. When he can break away for some R&R, he likes to fly fish (even if he doesn’t catch anything) and camp (even if it rains).
Saving Their Own Skins
Massive federal spending by Democrats has helped save thousands of public-sector jobs and the GovCo bureaucrats who reaped the benefit don’t want the good times to end. The solution: Look for the union label, and use what is essentially taxpayer money to save their own skins. This from The WSJ: The American Federation of State, […]
It Ain’t Just A River
Denial, that is, which seems to be running deep and wide these days, as evidenced by the giddy and delusional optimism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisting that Democrats are better positioned than Republicans with voters coming down the home stretch. Her response to Charlie Rose’s reality-based observation that “95 House races are in play, […]
City Bonds: Vote No For A Stronger Charlotte
So says the grassroots, good-government advocacy group StrengthenCharlotte, offering a plethora of compelling reasons for why voters should reject the city’s $204-million bond ask at the polls. The real surprise: an across-the-board thumbs-down on all three bond fronts, which appear on ballots as individual issues: $157 million for transportation; $32 million for neighborhood improvement; and […]
Party On Pete
Superintendent Peter Gorman could have used part or all of a $250,000 grant he received earlier this year, from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, to help plug a funding gap for school athletics, or to buy some new books for kids, or training for teachers, or – heck, just about anything. The grant money, which was […]
Library Task Force Wants More Loot
In what has become a veritable county government tradition, a task force that was created to find ways to save money needs more money. This time around, it’s The Future of the Library Task Force, which was formed, ostensibly, to find ways that a system rocked by budget cuts this year could operate more efficiently […]
Tracking The Early Vote
Got this handy-dandy new vote tracker in an email yesterday from the good folks at the Civitas Institute. It’s a nifty way to keep pace with running totals on a daily basis, for anybody without anything better to do like, I don’t know, watching the Rangers clobber the Yankees. According to the Civitas tracker, we […]
Presidential Mythbusting and Exploding Debt
This just in from the Fact is Stranger than Fiction Department: President Barack Obama will appear on an episode of the popular “Mythbusters” television show, scheduled to be aired Dec. 8 on the Discovery Channel. The episode, which has already been taped, has The Chosen One challenging the validity of the tale of Greek scientist […]
CMS Outlaws Pens
Just for the record, and because I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, Turning Point Academy, the home of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ exploding pen, is the friendlier, PR-manufactured moniker for what used to be called Derita Alternative, a facility for students that have run into serious discipline problems at other schools. That said, Turning Point Academy […]
Race Week
Photos by: Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina The green flag drops on speed and fun at Charlotte Motor Speedway. [nggallery id=87]
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