Despite repeated assurances from party leaders that fundraising for the Democratic National Convention would meet its budget, coupled with endless promises and pledges to steer clear of corporate cash and lobbyist loot, reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show the Queen City bash came up woefully short on both fronts. More to the point, […]
The Big One is still a few weeks away, but one-stop early voting kicks off today for folks so inclined. Think of it as fast food for democracy. On that note, is it just a coincidence that early voting starts on the same day that the City of Charlotte’s Solid Waste Services Department kicks off […]
I spent a large part of the last month recovering from a surgery post-op regime that left me floating through a hydrocodone haze, frequently unable to discern reality from drug-induced stupor. When the pain meds finally cleared my system, I thought I was good to go. So imagine my shock when I read the uptown paper’s […]
The Charlotte City Council this week threw another $1.25 million into the decaying Johnston and Mecklenburg mills in the north Davidson NoDa neighborhood, adding to the nearly $7 million of taxpayer loot that has already been sucked into the mills money pit as part of the city’s quest to salvage a piece of history and […]
According to the League of Women Voters, Charlotte owed $4.24 billion this past February. According to the Office of Dale Folwell, Speaker Pro Tempore of the NC House, Charlotte owed approximately $3.5 billion a year prior, and over 80% of that debt was never approved by the voters. In November, 2011 Jefferson County, Alabama declared […]
Some will tell you that what you don’t know can’t hurt you. Others say if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about. But what happens when you try to do the right thing and still get ensnared in government’s screwed up way of trying to keep you safe? From Wednesday’s Charlotte […]
That’s the former mayor’s take on the Queen City’s DNC experience and the heavy-duty, paramilitary security drop that’s landed on Charlotte. This from National Review: “You’ll not meet many people from Charlotte here this week,” (McCrory said). “The security is keeping everybody away. They wouldn’t even let me in this building — which is outside […]
Amidst the swirl of news, headlines and distractions surrounding the DNC (wholly coincidental, I’m sure), Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones announced today that Mary Wilson has been “terminated” as director of the Department of Social Services. Sources say Wilson was given the option to step down from her post, or be fired. Apparently, she preferred […]
First it was supposed to be four days with a huge shindig at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which got trimmed to three days with a parade uptown. Now the DNC confirms that it’s moving Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from Bank of America Stadium to Time Warner Cable Arena. Because of weather concerns. As in an 80% […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx’s highly touted and ballyhooed speech at the DNC, that is, which lasted all of nearly four minutes. In all fairness, Foxx has probably been too busy lo these many months to spend much time prepping for the biggest political stage of his career: passing a city budget that tackles priorities without hiking […]
