Saturday Night House Party
Send us your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the mix. This is Bonnie Raitt. Enjoy.
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).
Fat CATS’ Cushions
Transit tax revenue is on the decline, but the good folks at Charlotte Area Transit System are still sitting pretty, even as they hike bus fares. Sitting better than pretty, actually, flush with nearly $1 million worth of new office furniture. The city council this week approved an $897,173 contract for the purchase and installation […]
Thompson Calls For Reprimand Of Democrat Commissioners
Corey Thompson, by his own admission, is a political novice. But that hasn’t stopped the young gun Republican from drawing down and taking dead aim at Democrat incumbent Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. Thompson, who is running for an at-large seat on the county board, this week called for Roberts to reprimand her Democrat cohorts for […]
The Living Dead
Or Darkness In The Land of the Midnight Sun: A newly released Rasmussen Reports poll shows Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign pulling her within one point of Joe Miller, the upstart, Tea Party-backed candidate who knocked off the entrenched incumbent in Alaska’s GOP primary: A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows […]
Tea Party Would Have Killed Trapped Miners
This is low-down disgraceful, even for an activist liberal hack like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who managed to turn the all-round joyous rescue of 33 Chilean miners into an opportunity to lob cheap political shots at the Tea Party and conservatives. NewsBusters snags the insultingly offensive claims from Matthews’ segment with guest Richard Trumka, president of […]
School Board Powder Keg
Hundreds of angry parents turned out for Tuesday night’s school board meeting, which devolved into a chaotic protest of the district’s plans to close nearly a dozen schools and ended with the arrest of the local NAACP president and a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher. The main source of frustration for many parents and community leaders from […]
Pricey Office Space Trumps School Classrooms
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials contend that their plans to close eight schools, consolidate three others and relocate three more is part and parcel of a desperate scramble to prepare for next year’s looming budget crisis, when the state is already directing local school districts to prepare for budget cuts of 5, 10 or 15 percent, an […]
CMS Double Deals Money Card
Despite all the gnashing of teeth and general angst earlier this year – not to mention teacher layoffs, pay-for-play athletic fees, and scuttled neighborhood bus stops – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools saw its total 2010-11 budget increase by about $10 million, up to $1.15 billion, thanks to myriad, last-minute funding boosts from state and federal sources. Not […]
Sheriff Raids County Computer For His Campaign
It’s all but self-evident that Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chipp Bailey, a Democrat up for reelection, broke state law, or at least purposefully skirted its intent, when he used a taxpayer-funded county database for campaign purposes. Bailey even admits to nabbing a list of employee names and addresses from his office’s computer, which he used to […]
Arbitrary Autocracy
Fresh out of the starting gate, Obamacare is already creating the wholly predictable disastrous results when confronted by the realities of the marketplace. Companies, large and small, are faced with having to yank healthcare coverage from employees because of the law’s mandates, standards, and exorbitant costs, while insurers are being forced to drop certain coverage […]
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