Great news: the next time you swerve across three lanes of traffic and fail to yield to oncoming cars and cause an accident and the cop’s getting ready to write you a ticket, tell him that CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe says it’s not necessary. Investigative blogger and professional agitator Cedar Posts broke this story and […]
On Wednesday February 22nd the Libertarian Party of Mecklenburg County (LPMeck) held its annual county convention at the Fox & Hound in uptown Charlotte. The event drew over 50 people, making it the most successful and popular convention in the local Party’s history. Lee Wrights, a presidential candidate for the LP noted that the attendance […]
The burgeoning problem posed by coyotes running loose in Charlotte-Mecklenburg has received its share of headlines recently, while another public menace from the wild has lingered in relative obscurity. Until now. The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department is launching a program that focuses on the “reduction and removal of the beaver populations at Beatty […]
Local rail-transit cheerleaders have for years been shaking their pom-poms trying to gin up support for the half-billion dollar Red Line, a 25-mile commuter rail project slated to run from uptown Charlotte to Mooresville. They’ve cooked-up multiple studies to show the purported economic and social benefits the Red Line would produce; held public forums stacked […]
Mecklenburg commissioners get a second crack tonight to pass a new ordinance that would prohibit camping and unauthorized use of county-owned land, which failed two weeks ago to get the unanimous support from the board it needed to be approved. This time around, it will only require a majority vote to be adopted. What’s at […]
It’s too often too easy to criticize Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, a bureaucratic behemoth rife with inefficiencies and bumbling failures that a multi-million dollar PR machine spins as unmitigated successes. So it’s a rare pleasure to be able to offer legitimate and deserved praise. This week, school district officials and the Charlotte Fire Department honored bus driver […]
How dysfunctional is the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners? Here’s a good barometer: this week they managed to simultaneously pass a new ordinance without adopting it, essentially hanging out a “Campers Welcome” sign and leaving a door open for the Occupy movement to take up quarters on county-owned property. An ordinance that would prohibit camping […]
Over/Under on how much local GovCo will end up spending in its pursuit to contain or eradicate coyote: I’ll put it at $365K and roll with the Over. In any event, county commissioners heard an update on the area’s burgeoning coyote trouble during their meeting this week. This from WCNC: Over the past few months, there’s […]
Yes, Sue Myrick did admirable work during her early term-limit pledge years to advance the conservative cause; but after nine terms, a borderline-irrational obsessive fixation on Muslims, and wrangling to land fed funds for Charlotte’s light-rail Lynx Blue Line boondoggle, her act had grown somewhat tiresome. Myrick announced yesterday that she wouldn’t be seeking re-election, […]
In case you missed it, the Charlotte City Council held its annual planning retreat last week and in a move of fiscal responsibility and general sanity, councilmembers elected to hold forth in the basement of the Government Center. Wait, what? That can’t be right. And of course, it isn’t. Councilmembers shacked up for the three-day […]
