Superintendent Heath Morrison this week marked his first 100 days at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools by unveiling his vision for moving the district forward, which includes a push for promoting “cultural competency” as a way to ensure that teachers, administrators, and overall district practices “reflect and embrace the diversity of CMS.” Part and parcel of the initiative […]
Mecklenburg commissioners this week started down what promises to be a long, painful and pricey, but wholly necessary road to fixing the fatally flawed 2011 property revaluation and its accompanying fleecing of taxpayers. And while a growing number of elected officials are calling for a complete redo of the revaluation, accompanied by refunds to any […]
I would’ve bet dollars to doughnuts that Democrat Linda Coleman was willing to take the long slog down recount row in her efforts to steal the state’s lieutenant governor’s race from Republican Dan Forest. Turns out winning once will be enough for Forest. Trailing by nearly 7,000 votes and facing the prospect of sticking taxpayers with […]
A newly released outside audit of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ communications department revealed comprehensive flaws in the division’s performance and effectiveness, tied largely to “inadequate strategic communications leadership.” So naturally, Superintendent Heath Morrison reacted to the $20,000 audit by firing the executive director in charge of the department shifting the chairs on the deck of a sinking […]
A few years back the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority put its handsomely paid brain trust to work and crafted the genius slogan “Charlotte’s got a lot” to market the Queen City as a tourist destination. Cute, no? A Lot in ChArLOTte? And the marketing wizards who gin up this stuff are pulling down insanely high […]
Less than 24 hours after voters with a conservative bent help the GOP not only retain but expand its sway in both houses of the N.C. General Assembly, and put a Republican in the governor’s mansion to boot, we’re treated to this for the effort: Republicans bent on lower taxes and smaller government might be […]
No shocker here, as former Queen City boy mayor Pat McCrory had amassed a huge campaign war chest and was running against an opponent tied at the hip to the most unpopular governor in the nation. Still, give McCrory credit for not fumbling what nearly every pundit predicted would be a cakewalk into the end […]
The Mecklenburg Republican Party found itself in an awkward position last month, when it had to revise its official 2012 Voter Guide that included a candidate who had posted upwards of 4,000 messages on a white supremacist website. Thousands of the MeckGOP Voter Guides that were printed and distributed originally listed Doug Hanks as the […]
Hello Neighbor, Over the past several months you’ve probably heard about plans to widen I-77 using toll lanes. Like you, I was thrilled with the idea that any lane- even a toll lane- would help reduce the awful traffic tie-ups we see on I-77 every weekday. But the more I look into this, the more […]
After having to scrap their trip earlier this year to London, a gaggle of elected officials and GovCo staffers from Mecklenburg County, the city of Charlotte, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are off this week taking a bite out of the Big Apple, and lifting a chunk of change from the taxpayers’ pocket in the process, as […]
