In their latest effort to secure a minor league baseball stadium for uptown, city staff has tossed out a major league curveball with enough taxing twists to apparently sucker a majority of city councilmembers into taking a swing at a bad pitch. City staff claims its latest proposal strips any property tax loot from an […]
Incoming CMS Superintendent Heath “Pete Repeat” Morrison says his first priority is to reach out and engage the public; so naturally, Morrison rolled out his vaunted 100-Days Entry Plan last week with a Friday afternoon document dump when most people had already checked out for the Memorial Day weekend. This guy should fit right in […]
This week’s public hearing for the county manager’s recommended budget unfolded as predicted, with scores of teachers and education advocates packing the government center to pressure commissioners into providing additional funding to cover proposed pay raises for teachers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teachers, who have seen their salaries frozen since 2008, had the right message but the […]
US Airways unwittingly foiled an annual taxpayer-funded boondoggle from unfolding this weekend, when one of its jets developed mechanical problems and forced the cancellation of the Charlotte Chambers’ planned Inter-City Visit to London. The chamber’s annual trip, in which business leaders pick up their own tab for the junket and taxpayers foot the freight for […]
Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones might want to steer clear of Las Vegas, where people who make wild wagers are gobbled up faster than a cheap buffet. As part of the $1.4 billion county budget recommendation Jones rolled out this week, he included a $9.1 million funding increase for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. A hefty chunk of […]
In what is fast becoming a depressing trend, the dismal state that Democrats have made of our state’s political scene is once again attracting national attention. This time around it’s Tar Heel voter fraud, exposed in devastating fashion by video journalist James O’Keefe and crew at Project Veritas. This from Breitbart’s Big Government: In the […]
Elections are supposed to produce definitive, by-the-numbers winners and losers, but the end game in several local races from Tuesday night’s primary likely have a ways to go before crossing the finish line. The most confusing, not surprisingly, involves the 12-candidate mishmash Democrats fielded for the at-large county board primary. That’s where Kim Ratliff and […]
Last night’s vote on North Carolina’s so-called Marriage Amendment didn’t do any favors for President Obama. Not only was The One, who still claims an “evolving” position on gay marriage, last seen ducking a planned visit to the Tar Heel state on Election Day; the passage of Amendment One is also causing a backlash for […]
Bill James held off an aggressive challenge from Ed Driggs to win the GOP primary for the District 6 seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, with the eight-term incumbent commissioner capturing nearly 52 percent of the vote. But less than eight hours after taking the win in the heavily Republican district, James’ attention […]
So after making a scouting loop of some precincts this morning – fairly moderate to decent turnout at the ones I hit – I returned to the homestead around noonish to find my answering machine lit up with 14 recordings from various campaigns delivering last-minute pitches, everything from candidates having their – pick one – […]
