The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a four-year contract for superintendent-in-waiting Heath Morrison, who will rake in a total compensation package of more than $300,000 a year. In turn, Morrison blew into town for some grip-and-grins at a few schools (Byers Elementary, Robinson Middle and Providence High) and promised to begin rebuilding […]
Is WBT actively trying to drive away listeners, or trying to draw a different set of listeners? Don’t know; but the bottom line is that yet another talented, wickedly funny and, maybe most important, local talk show is leaving the airwaves after management decides to not renew his contract. This from WCNC: WBT-AM radio host […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has selected Heath Morrison of Reno, Nevada, to be its new superintendent, officials announced today. The decision came on the heels of news earlier in the morning that one of the three other finalists for the job – Memphis Superintendent Kriner Cash – had abruptly withdrawn from the running. Contract negotiations with Morrison […]
North Carolina Democrats find themselves awash in turmoil swirling around allegations that the party’s executive director sexually harassed a 26-year-old male staffer, an incident that officials originally hoped could have been swept under the rug with a financial payoff and a nondisclosure agreement to keep everybody quiet. As usual, progressive liberals being progressive liberals, Democrats […]
In advance of Mitt Romney’s visit to Charlotte today, the local Democrat party, via Mayor Anthony Foxx, pens an op-ed for the uptown paper that argues Obama “has put America, North Carolina and Charlotte back on track.” Fair enough, assuming the track is headed in the same direction as Foxx’s multi-million dollar Faux Streetcar To […]
UPDATE: Faced with a potentially deadlocked voted on his proposed resolution in opposition to Amendment One, Commissioners Chair Harold Cogdell this afternoon pulled the item from the board’s agenda to be discussed tonight. Cogdell informed his board colleagues that he would place the same resolution on the agenda of the board’s May 1 meeting. Tellingly, […]
News about the school board pondering trips to Reno, Nev., and Memphis, Tenn., to check out the hometown digs of two superintendent candidate finalists got me thinking about the mother of all GovCo junkets that has seemingly, pardon the pun, flown under the radar of late: It’s nearly time for city councilmembers, county commissioners and […]
As surely as you can count on the sun rising, you can bank that the perpetual money pit calling itself Charlotte Mecklenburg Utility Department will request and receive an annual fee hike for water and sewer bills. CMUD is at it again, with officials this week lamenting that an average rate increase of 6 percent is […]
If there was ever any question about whether the school board would pass the district’s proposed $1.2 billion-plus budget buster tonight, question no more. CMS’ platinum-plated PR department has sent word from on high that it’s already a done deal. This from a media release distributed yesterday: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education meeting (Government Center, Meeting […]
After skirting open meeting laws and lurking in seculsion at the airport to interview prospective candidates for the high-flying gig of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent, the Board of Education today announced three finalists to trot around town over the coming days in meetings and forums with the public and schools officials: Long-time CMS administrator Ann Clark, […]
