A divided city council on Monday night voted to withhold nearly $10 million in funding for the embattled Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, while simultaneously agreeing to provide the tourism booster group with $1.7 million for “business development purposes,” to be disbursed at the discretion of the city manager, and $800,000 in immediate funding to sustain […]
GOP mayoral candidate Scott Stone says Charlotte can add 35,000 private-sector jobs to its work force by cutting taxes by $72 million, reducing the cost and scope of government while improving its efficiency, and sidetracking a streetcar to nowhere – along with implementing an assortment of other key initiatives that he unveiled this week with […]
You could not ask for a more effective and perfectly executed scare-and-fear campaign than the one just completed by outgoing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Peter Gorman and his complicit cohorts on the board of education. Starting months ago, Gorman & Co. were busy rolling out dire budget projections that called for upwards of $100 million cuts, […]
I always liked the work Vince Coakley did from the anchor desk during his stint with WSOC-TV. How successfully he transitions his media skills to a straight, talk-radio format is open for question; but answers won’t be too long in coming. Coakley has been named the new afternoon-drive host at WBT, filling the gap left […]
Is none other than – get ready for it – Commissioner Vilma Leake, who was tapped at last night’s county board meeting to serve as Mecklenburg’s voting delegate at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference, slated to be held next month in Portland, Oregon. Leake made the motion to nominate Leake as the county’s […]
Maybe. Maybe not. But in the parlance of the intelligence world, let’s connect some dots: Charlotte lands the DNC in February; two months later, surveillance cameras catch a man in a restricted area along the Lynx Blue light-rail line, which runs into the heart of uptown and what will be DNC 2012 command central. The […]
Or is it the other way around? Hard to tell, not that it really matters; either way, the spin will be flying hot and heavy as Mayor Anthony Foxx steps up today to, once again, shill for the Obama Administration. This time around Foxx has been invited to a photo opp to speak with President […]
Less than a day after Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools snagged a $26-million budget bump from the board of commissioners’ Democrat majority, which fretted that providing less would leave to a massive layoffs of teachers – because, you know, Superintendent Peter Gorman and the school board said so – CMS announced that $30 million from the state had […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx is stomping his feet and gnashing teeth that a $25,000 audit of the CRVA conducted by the CRVA with PricewaterhouseCoopers tagging along for the ride, has produced little but empty words. Literally. The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority today released a two-and-a-half page missive, penned by a CRVA board member, that is supposed […]
After five years at the helm of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Peter Gorman today announced his resignation, effective Aug. 15, as he heads to greener pastures with the Education Division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation as its newly minted senior vice president, according to this press release. Gee, give a guy an extra $26M and you get […]
