Board of Education member Kaye McGarry is accusing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials and her own board colleagues of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about mounting security threats and violence in schools that is putting students at risk. McGarry last month had requested a report on how significant shifts in student populations have impacted nearly […]
With all the tumult and turmoil that has roiled Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools the past year, voter turnout in the countywide at-large Board of Education race trickled in at a pitiful pace, with nearly 90 percent of registered voters opting to sit on the couch and eat Cheetos. The unofficial numbers from the elections board showed that […]
When a neighbor asked me Tuesday afternoon for tips on the best way to keep up with election results that would come rolling in later that evening, my advice was fairly simple: start drinking early and hope to pass out before things get too ugly. I should have taken my own advice. With 100 percent […]
Let’s start with the obvious, which in this case would be yet another possible security breach at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. This time around it involved a Nov. 1 incident of a US Airways employee “accessing airport premises by not using proper protocol,” in the vicinity of an allegedly secure baggage area. The employee has been […]
Former Meck Deck chieftain and guerilla blogger Jeff Taylor dissects the gross hypocrisy inherent in Pat McCrory’s recent criticism of the Occupy Charlotte movement and the former mayor’s previous propensity to embrace the Teamsters occupation of Queen City transit ops. The fact is that one of the greatest bumps ever given to organized labor in […]
Seems some other local media have clued into the fact that Occupy Charlotte comes with a bill. One that’s growing bigger by the day. When we first reported last week on the cost, the tally stood at $92,224 for services related to policing the Occupy movement since it started on Oct. 1. The price tag […]
Now here’s a fine use of political capital and taxpayer resources, all in one swoop: having the CMPD round up campaign sign thieves at the behest of Mayor Pro Tem Patrick Cannon, a Democrat councilmember running for at-large reelection. “Justine Tobin a local activist and ‘Occupy Charlotte’ protester who has hosted at least one fund […]
Recall the super-sized set of pompoms Peter Gorman routinely waved for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools when he was the district’s golden boy? Seems his tune has changed since stepping down from the helm. WBT’s Jeff Sonier digs up audio of Gorman speaking at a recent education forum, where he blasted his former bosses (that’d be the school […]
For a city government that insists it’s trying to help bolster the region’s business climate and spur economic development, Queen City bureaucrats sure have a funny way of showing it. And not ha-ha funny. Charlotte’s latest attempt at subverting private property rights and killing the relative prosperity of small businesses is no laughing matter. Not […]
To the tune of nearly $100K, which is how much the Occupy Charlotte movement has cost local taxpayers just for policing Occupy events and ongoing encampment, as of this afternoon. “The total cost for police services in relation to Occupy Charlotte since its inception is approximately $92,224.38,” informs Capt. Jeff Estes, commander of CMPD’s Central […]
