In a repeat performance from last year, funding for Charlotte’s massively expensive expansion of light-rail lunacy is back on track after having been temporarily derailed by fiscal sanity in the N.C. Senate budget. Legislators are slated to vote today on a $20.17 billion budget that restores $25 million in state matching funds for the Lynx Blue […]
Even after a bipartisan effort from local politicians tweaked the rules to make booze readily available for Team BO’s big party, more Democrats are finding the DNC too toxic a pill to swallow and making plans to be anywhere but center stage in Bankster Town USA. This from The Daily: Vulnerable Democrats looking to distance […]
Residents of Charlotte’s southern suburbs could see fewer capital projects headed their way, and still end up paying a higher city tax rate, if discussions to reach consensus on a city budget stay one course set yesterday at an emergency meeting that was called after the full council earlier this week voted down the city […]
While the city council’s recent flash of fiscal responsibility and its predictable propensity for doling out taxpayer largess, coupled with the squabble between county commissioners and school board members over restricted CMS funding, have taken center stage in the latest budget sagas, nearly lost in the shuffle has been the ruse of what county leaders […]
That’s the takeaway from comments that Democrat city councilmember Claire Fallon dropped on WBT this morning, when she said the NC Senate’s move to eliminate funding for Charlotte’s Blue Line light-rail extension was one of the main reasons she and three other Democrats jumped ship to vote against the tax-hike budget championed by Mayor Anthony […]
With a pair of votes that Democrat Mayor Anthony Foxx decried as being everything from “incongruous” and “irresponsible” to “troublesome” and “disgusting,” the Charlotte City Council on Tuesday night shot down a proposed 8-percent property-tax hike budget while approving an $8 million taxpayer subsidy for the Charlotte Knights’ uptown baseball stadium. Let’s take a minute […]
Lewis, Katz, Kaliner, Servatius and now Coakley, who is being shown the door after a one-year stint over at WBT 1110-AM, which is apparently intent on doing its absolute best to drive off its core audience and replacing it with … I’m not sure what. WBT program manager Carl East says the decision to replace […]
Like a wayward kid who can’t be trusted with his allowance for fear it will all be blown on candy and trinkets, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education needs an adult to ensure it makes the right budget decisions, specifically honoring a commitment to provide pay raises for teachers and school employees. Enter the Mecklenburg Board […]
Picking up on Mark’s post regarding Voter ID hypocrisy, a compromise on a North Carolina Voter ID bill is likely to see a vote during the current short session of the General Assembly. Proposals include allowing a broader range of documents to be accepted as positive forms of identification rather than only a true photo […]
On Tuesday evening, residents upset over City Manager Curt Walton’s budget and capital investment plan flooded the Government Center to express their discontent over the 8.2% property tax increase called for by the plan. Despite overwhelming opposition by those in attendance at the public hearing, and foreshadowed by some rather disingenuous commentary by Mayor Foxx […]
