Disgruntled with the ongoing Occupy Charlotte encampment in front of the old City Hall building, Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James is looking for ways to prevent the same type of occupation from occurring on county-owned property. “I would like to know if we have a regulation for County Parks that prohibits protests from going through the […]
It’s probably a safe bet this wasn’t what Mayor Anthony Foxx was expecting when he released his first TV campaign commercial that focused on job creation: a nearly total collapse in local confidence of economic conditions in Charlotte-Mecklenburg for the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s the take-away from the latest release of the Charlotte Business […]
It’s more common seeing pigs flying over the Queen City’s world-class skyline than it is to catch the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg endorsing a Republican candidate for office; so color me shocked to see Christopher Hailey’s name lumped in with Patrick Cannon and David Howard, two incumbent Democrats, as the BPC’s favored picks for […]
For the acronym-challenged reader, that headline translates as Board of County Commissioners: We Love You Atlantic Coast Conference. To the tune of a quarter of a million dollars, no less, which is how much taxpayer loot commissioners doled out this week to help score some image-branding points and economic development jolt supposedly tied to the […]
The former Minnesota Vikings star quarterback scores with a persuasive argument in favor of performance pay for teachers. This from The WSJ: Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player’s salary is based on how long he’s been in the league. It’s about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for […]
In a newly released campaign video for his not-yet-a-campaign gubernatorial campaign, former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory announced he wouldn’t be making an announcement until next year to announce his candidacy for governor. The non-announcement announcement has something to do with campaigns being too long and expensive, from what I could gather. This from a man […]
At least according to Gallup, which found in a recent poll that “two-thirds of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in their local governments to handle local problems, and a solid majority the same way about their state government.” So how do those confidence and trust numbers hold up for Char-Meck […]
Mecklenburg County commissioners are slated to meet in closed session today to discuss a personnel matter that is linked to a new harassment policy the board is being asked to adopt later tonight at its regularly scheduled meeting, according to a source familiar with the situation. The personnel matter to be discussed behind closed doors […]
Come one, folks; it’s obvious that Gov. Beverly Perdue was joking when she let this one fly while speaking to a Rotary Club: “The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines.” I mean, really, working across party lines with a Democrat Kleptocracy that for years abused […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools learned this week that it finally won the coveted Board Prize, after years of yearning and hundreds of millions of dollars spent in pursuit of the elusive Holy Grail of urban education. Indeed, during his tenure at the helm, former Superintendent Peter Gorman at times seemed on an almost Ahabian quest to land […]
