What could go wrong? Aside from bullying college students during his Congressional days in D.C., Bob Etheridge supported the trifecta of reckless spending and government overreach, voting for Obamacare, the stimulus and TARP. He’d later be tapped by Gov Perdue to oversee North Carolina’s office for management of those same federal stimulus dollars and to […]
Cornelius Mayor Jeffery Tarte, at the direction of and on behalf of the Cornelius Town Board, this week fired a shot across the bow of Mecklenburg County’s revaluation process, giving official voice to simmering frustrations from homeowners who think they’ve been dealt “the short end of the stick.” In a letter to Mecklenburg Commissioners Chairman […]
After briefly mulling the prospect of a run for governor, Mayor Anthony Foxx says he’s staying put in Charlotte. The announcement from his (choose one) spokesperson/office/secretary/mouthpiece/PRmachine: “Over the past few days I have given serious consideration to a run for Governor of North Carolina. Given the unusual circumstances and short time, such a run would […]
A ticket to hop on board Charlotte Area Transit System’s half-billion-dollar train will likely cost riders more this summer. Ditto for bus rides. CATS wants to hike transit fares and passes on all of its services starting July 1. Prices for one-way local routes for buses and trains would bump to $2, up from $1.75, […]
The clock for the Occupy movement to decamp its entrenched hovels on the lawn in front of old City Hall began ticking Monday night, when the Charlotte City Council approved new ordinances that prohibit camping on city property and give police more clout to stop and search people during the Democrat National Convention or any […]
Sworn in a little over a year ago as the first new District Attorney in 36 years, Mecklenburg County DA Andrew Murray said at a Mecklenburg Republican Party luncheon in Charlotte Wednesday that despite many challenges, “I love my job”. But just what does the DA and his office of 81 Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) […]
Or the 75 percent, or maybe the 53 percent – same difference, just a rounding error; could happen to anyone. The uptown paper’s Ann Doss Helms unravels the numbers behind Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ flawed graduation-track data, while having to painstakingly explain – apparently repeatedly – to CMS officials the error of their ways before they finally […]
Or, um, more accurately the mountains, according to reports that the former WBT talker and most recently News14 reporter is slated to slide back behind the talk radio microphone with WWNC out of Asheville, taking over the drive-time slot vacated when Matt Mittan and the station parted ways. Details as they become available. Hate that […]
It’s taken entirely way too long, but finally a responsible government body (I know, it’s very much the oxymoron, but stick with me here) has stood up to voice legitimate concerns and demand realistic projections for an astonishingly pricey rail-transit project. It happened this week when the Iredell Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to […]
A group of about 40 residents from south Mecklenburg, including County Commissioner Bill James and City Councilmember Warren Cooksey, huddled this week to discuss the possibility of Ballantyne and a swath of suburbia breaking from Charlotte to form its own city. And folks from Mecklenburg’s southern suburbs, it turns out, aren’t the only ones contemplating […]
