It’s been almost two decades since Bill James took a seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, representing the heavily suburban, southern swath District 6 of the county, and nearly as long since the oft-outspoken and controversial Republican has faced a legitimate challenger at the ballot box. This year is looking to prove an […]
News of felon and former NC House Speaker Jim Black stiffing school children by dodging full financial restitution stemming from a string of criminal corruption convictions shouldn’t come as any surprise. Ethics have never been the Democrat’s strong suit. Screwing the public and abusing power? That’s a different story entirely. And folks should’ve seen this […]
That would be the new moniker and rallying/battle cry if the brainchild of Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, a Republican who represents, in part, the southern wilds of the county ever comes to fruition. From a mass email James launched today: Mecklenburg needs a new ‘Town of Ballantyne’ If consolidation talk won’t die; Southern residents need Town […]
Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James has asked the county’s internal auditor to investigate possible improprieties or illegalities concerning salary and benefit payments made to the school board’s newly elected vice chairman, Mary McCray, when she was employed as a teacher by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and also served as president of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE), […]
When the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners wasn’t preoccupied at its meeting this week launching investigations into the possibly nefarious doings of one or more of their own, commissioners stayed busy tackling some of the top priorities of local governance. The meeting’s opening prayer and pledge were no sooner over and done when Commissioner Vilma […]
The city council gave final approval of the multi-million-dollar Chiquita peel deal last week; county commissioners are on tap tonight to follow suit. A truly proud and progressive moment for Char-Meck GovCo and the company they keep:
Crime, both violent and property, declined across the board and across the country for the first half of this year, with Charlotte’s numbers reflecting much of the same, according to the FBI’s just-released preliminary semi-annual uniform crime report, which covers January through June 2011. In Charlotte with the help of the law firm for drug […]
Former city councilmember and well-connected about-towner Lynn Wheeler is reporting on her Facebook page that Char-Meck’s moneyed and political elites will be jet-setting across the pond to London for the 2012 Chamber Inter City Visit. Haven’t been able to confirm it yet; if true, chalk it up as one of the truly tone-deaf, bone-headed moves […]
You wouldn’t know it to listen to Michael Smith of Center City Partners or to Governor Beverly Perdue, while they were basking in the floodlights of just having bought, not brought, 400 jobs to Charlotte by spending millions of dollars, but the real reason we taxpayers are now on the hook for funding the job […]
According to a report in the Charlotte Observer, the poor now make up 16.3% of the population of the Charlotte metropolitan area. This is a curious number primarily because being poor means having an income of $43,000 or less. Next step up is ‘Low Income’ which means having an income between $43,000 and $51,500. But let […]
