And they don’t come any better or bigger than ultra-leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Case in point: spewing his liberal rhetoric across the screen with a movie that bashes corporate tax handouts, while pocketing a huge corporate tax handout for the movie. Moore received an estimated $650,000 to $1 million in state film tax credits from […]
Scrambling to find a way to pay the annual $1.5-million operating cost for the city’s streetcar, Councilmember Patrick “At the End of the Day, Per Se” Cannon reached back for an oldie but a goodie, suggesting a surcharge on uptown parking spaces. The tax was previously pitched as one of the scuttled funding options for […]
Just one of the myriad interesting items the federal government is spending your hard-earned money to study: $181,406 to be exact. That’s how much the National Institutes of Health shelled out for a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail. Seriously. And that’s the least […]
The Charlotte City Council on Monday night delivered the first installment of a pricey political payoff, when it voted to accept a $25-million federal grant to help build the city’s coveted streetcar project. The total price tag for the route’s first leg, which will stretch all of 1.5 miles, from Time Warner Cable Arena to […]
What federal officials are calling a “technical error” could potentially slam the brakes on the city’s plan to extend the Lynx Blue Line to UNC-Charlotte. Local officials had applied for $40 million in federal money to fund the final piece of an engineering/design study required for the $1-billion light-rail extension project. Last week a U.S. […]
One of the bigger questions left hanging from the termination letter that the N.C. Department of Correction issued to Councilmember Warren Turner, who was fired this week from his job as a state probation officer, isn’t whether the action was justified, but rather why it hadn’t been taken earlier, or whether it would have been […]
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Or make it a fine Bordeaux, if that’s more your bent. It’s for your health, after all, according to the latest from the folks tasked with updating the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans for 2010. One of those guidelines focuses on alcohol and is stirring up quite the debate. Which shouldn’t come as a huge […]
Put it at three. Assuming, of course, the N.C. Department of Correction doesn’t backtrack on its decision to fire Councilmember Warren Turner from his job as a state probation officer, which Turner’s lawyers say he will appeal. DOC officials cited no specific reason for their decision to fire Turner, at least not for public consumption, […]
Local city and county leaders love flying around the country for their annual Inter-City Visits and touting all the wonderful ideas they reap during their adventures, which in turn can be emulated and implemented in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. We are doomed if they ever Inter-City visit Bell, California, a small town in Los Angeles County with some […]
