Want to land a quick and easy $900,000 to teach cocaine-fueled monkeys how to boogie down with weird dances that can be featured on YouTube? Ask the federal government for a grant and you’d probably be in luck. It worked for UNC Charlotte and Wake Forest University, two institutions of higher learning that received hundreds […]
In this case the price tag sits at upwards of $9 million, part and parcel of Charlotte’s lunatic obsession to include an affordable housing component in the redevelopment of NoDa’s Mecklenburg Mills. It started back in the early 1990s, when the city approved a $1 million loan to a developer to purchase and rehabilitate the […]
Catching up with last month’s release of the federal government’s Mid-Session Budget Review, this devastating account from The Heritage Foundation concludes the numbers are nothing less than an admission from the Obama Administration that its economic policies and the massive $862-billion stimulus package have been an abject failure. From The Foundry: When President Obama sold […]
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As Congress heads out the door for its August recess, a growing number of Democrats are calling for Rep. Charles Rangel to head out for good. That would include President Barack Obama, apparently, who was zinging some none-too-subtle signals during a recent interview with CBS News that it was time for Rangel to go, according […]
The tensions and controversy embroiling a nation in debate over how to best deal with illegal immigration bubbled to the surface Friday afternoon during a press conference at GOP Headquarters in Charlotte. Republicans Jim Pendergraph, Dan Ramirez and Corey Thompson, all three running for at-large seats on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, called for […]
In a case of justice gone awry that’s all too familiar in Mecklenburg County, a violent felon out on parole was back on the streets causing more mayhem. This time it was Zavier Marquis Davis, who police shot during an armed robbery attempt early Friday morning at a Wendy’s restaurant on Park Road. The 25-year-old Davis, […]
In a political shell game of grand and devious proportions, state legislators this week hailed themselves as heroes for saving hundreds of schoolteacher jobs. Problem is, they did it using upwards of $64 million in lottery revenue that was plundered from counties across the state. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, for example, announced this week that the state […]
Birthday cake, that is. Recognizing that Mecklenburg County employees have gone two years without merit-pay raises, County Manager Harry Jones today delivered a surprise to help boost moral: an additional day of paid vacation for all county employees on their birthdays. The gesture won’t have any budgetary impact, said County Budget Director Hyong Yi, because […]
And not in a good way, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. North Carolina ranks with Texas, New York and California as states that are projecting budget deficits larger than $1 billion next year, as federal stimulus handouts dry-up. And that doesn’t include a potential double-whammy facing North Carolina, when […]
