It started with a simple request during a recent Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners meeting, when Chairman Jennifer Roberts asked her colleagues to approve a change to the minutes from the board’s June 15 meeting, which commissioners were preparing to adopt. As originally recorded, the minutes noted that the board had approved a five-year service […]
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The City of Charlotte managed to land about $57 million in its scramble for federal stimulus money, but one request from the utilities department got flushed down the toilet. Literally. Local officials had applied to the state, which administered distribution of the federal stimulus funds, for about $750,00 to pay for a toilet replacement program. […]
Interesting sidebar to the uptown EpiCentre foreclosure and how it could directly impact your wallet when the county comes knocking next year with its property revaluation, and by extension bode ominously for the county’s continuing financial implosion. Jeff Taylor lays out how Afshin Ghazi, delinquent last year on paying EpiCentre’s $600,000 property tax bill, was […]
Certainly not any evidence of willful misconduct by Gov. Beverly Perdue’s campaign, or at least none that the lead investigator for the State Board of Elections could find. The reason? Um, that would be because Elections Board Chairman Larry Leake, a Democrat and long-time political ally of Perdue, ordered the lead investigator not to interview […]
What does racial diversity have to do with financial reform? Plenty, according to this article from Real Clear Markets, which dissects a largely ignored, but major piece of the proposed federal financial regulation bill: In addition to this bill’s well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at […]
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.” The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value […]
Good thing no money to cover the cost of the General Assembly’s wild spending and bond binge on capital projects for the UNC system will be coming from tuition. Otherwise, tuition fees would be skyrocketing. Phew! Dodged a major bullet – um, nevermind. At least legislators have a long-term plan on how to pay the […]
UNC-TV has backed itself into a tenuous position that could have devastating impact for journalists across the state – at least the ones who work for a public broadcasting system and, by extension, are considered state employees. It started when the General Assembly’s Senate Judiciary 2 Committee issued subpoenas to UNC-TV and two of its […]
If a qualifier of good art is irony, Mecklenburg County received a wicked return on investment. Among myriad construction projects that have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for public art are two libraries currently operating on limited days and reduced hours because of budget cuts. Two bronze tree sculptures, with a price […]
