If a tree fell on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, would it hit a majority of city councilmembers that have at least half of a brain? The answer wasn’t easy to come by Monday night, as the council with an 8-3 vote approved changes to the city’s tree ordinance without knowing for certain what adverse impacts […]
Democrat commissioners have pulled out of participating in a debate that was scheduled for tonight at the Access 21 studio of Speak Out Charlotte. We’ll have more as details become available. Here’s the presser issued by the three debate-dodging Democrats: Democratic Mecklenburg County Commissioners Dan Murrey, Jennifer Roberts and Harold Cogdell, Jr. have declined to participate […]
The United Nations can’t even get it right half of the time on Planet Earth, so naturally we’d want them in charge of greeting any extraterrestrials that happen our way. From the New York Post: Mazlan Othman, an obscure Malaysian scientist, will be named as the Earth’s official alien-spacecraft greeter. She’s expected to announce her […]
Speak Out Charlotte is still soliciting questions to ask at-large county commission candidates in their debate, slated for 7:00 tonight. Submit questions via Facebook – search “Speak Out Charlotte – 2010 County Debate Questions”. UPDATE: Never mind. Be quiet, citizen. Pay your taxes and move along.
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Shameless. This from NewsBusters: On Thursday’s World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ran as a “news” item a White House-produced video — complete with schmaltzy background music — of President Obama taking a phone call from a cancer patient who, Sawyer informed viewers “is now able to get health insurance” thanks to ObamaCare. …. The […]
Ten, maybe five years ago, I wouldn’t have thought this possible in Charlotte: a smoking ban in outdoor public places. Today? Oh, yeah, sooner or later some bright bulb on city council, likely at the “encouragement” of Center City Partners, will bring this front and center. For the common good, of course. From NPR, on […]
Mecklenburg County’s jobless numbers budged slightly in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from July’s 10.8 percent, with the county totaling 413,945 jobs compared to the previous month’s 411,416. The incremental good news is tempered, though, when compared to earlier in the year, when Mecklenburg totaled just shy of 415,000 jobs with an […]
What could possibly go wrong with this, big government tied into big business with a direct link to citizens’ primary source of energy? That’s essentially the concept lurking behind the new “Envision: Charlotte” initiative, designed to implement a so-called smart grid uptown, with a target to cut energy use by 20 percent in about 60 […]
Prosecutors in the Demetrius Montgomery case are slowly laying the bricks to create a path around the reasonable doubt standard and, they hope, straight to a life sentence for the 2007 slayings of police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. The latest: testimony that gunshot residue was present on Montgomery’s palms; an empty holster and […]
