Facing a bleak financial future and the near certain death of its programming this summer, public broadcast station WTVI got a million-dollar, midnight-hour reprieve when county commissioners late Tuesday night approved merging the station with Central Piedmont Community College. As part of the deal CPCC, which will take over administrative management, operation and programming of […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials this week unveiled a budget plan for the 2012-13 school year that tops out at $1.2 billion, an overall increase of 2.3 percent, and includes an ask of an additional $27.5 million from the county, after CMS endured wholesale financial calamity in the current year budget that saw the district receive an […]
Wasting money is currently a government function. That, of course, is an opinion. There are too many who, being on the receiving end of the wasteful spending, do not consider it waste at all. They like getting money for nothing. For generations now, the list of recipients has grown each year until we are at […]
A plan to save struggling public broadcast station WTVI is drawing lousy ratings from County Manager Harry Jones, who calls the proposal “a government-funded bailout of a failed business model.” The station, which last year ran a deficit of about $300,000 and has seen fundraising tumble, has been pushing a proposal that would have it […]
Local talk radio station WBT has landed smack in the middle of a national controversy swirling around Rush Limbaugh, the polemical midday talker who has come under fire for calling Georgetown law student and free contraception-on demand advocate Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” But despite receiving hundreds of emails and calls from people […]
Not sure how much weight it’ll have with fiscal conservatives, given Sue Myrick’s voting record of late, but it probably can’t hurt in the highly crowded and competitive GOP primary for the 9th Congressional District. Here’s the email Myrick sent out to her “dear friends”: Dear Friends, Thanks for the support that you have given […]
A decision by the Obama Administration to eliminate funding for programs that train and authorize local law enforcement officers to act as immigration agents could jeopardize the status of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) program. Under the program, which Mecklenburg has had in place since 2006, the federal Immigration Customs Enforcement agency provides local […]
Wayne Powers took Leap Year to heart on the last day of filing for elected office, jumping into the Republican primary race for an at-large seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. Powers enters a wide-open and already crowded contest where all three at-large seats on the board are up for grabs. And with […]
Let’s start with agreement that Tim Newman was grossly overpaid during his tenure at the helm of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. Just gross, no other word for it, to the tune of more than $300,000 a year combined salary and benefits. But there are boatloads of chieftains who oversee taxpayer-supported money pits and rake […]
The death of two children, ages 1 and 5, who were hit by a truck this week along West Tyvola Road has neighbors and family rightfully asking if the tragedy could have been averted. The area has a dire need of sidewalks, they say, for which they’ve long petitioned the city. City officials acknowledge the […]
