From the MeckGOP and CAUTION: There will be a public hearing on May 19th. Register and make your voice heard over our property revaluation and a host of other fiscal issues that our county has handled so poorly. The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, May 19, […]
The joys of high-density zoning mixed with rail transit. And, oh, I see we’re getting that uptown faux farmers market. Wonderful. Should fix right into the mix. Sure, the vid below is a stretch, but just sayin’ – Central Ave. 2025?
Interesting, but not entirely surprising, how the uptown paper chose to parse snippets of an e-mail exchange between Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James and Board of Education member Trent Merchant. Even more interesting is the perspective pitched by former Mecklenburg Commissioner Dan Bishop, which wasn’t included in the uptown paper’s account. Bishop was copied on the […]
With a divisive 5-4 vote the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a $1.17-billion budget plan that hopes to suck $352 million from county coffers, a $50 million increase from the school system’s current take. And that was the easy vote. The battle royal came when a different five-member majority fended off an […]
Nearly half of Mecklenburg homeowners, about 158,000 households, would be in line for a tax hike under the county’s proposed revenue-neutral budget plan, according to the latest numbers from the county’s budget department. Rolling with a revenue-neutral plan would dip the county property tax rate from 83.87-cents to 78.83-cents per $100 assessed value, and still […]
I’m sure it’s wholly coincidental that Mayor Anthony Foxx gets his Democrat-controlled city council to approve a renewed push for an amped-up jobs program for youths during the same week GOP mayoral hopeful Scott Stone officially rolls out his campaign with a signature platform of job creation and hammering Foxx for failing to adequately address […]
Three guns confiscated in two days at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, as the school board preps for tonight’s ask of an additional $55 million in county funding. Yesterday it was a student attempting to hijack a school bus, an event that yielded eight counts of kidnapping and two counts of possession of a weapon on school grounds. […]
A government-managed agency in partnership with a boatload of other government directed and subsidized agencies has produced a so-called community consensus that shows most folks wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes if it means – wait for it – more money for more government services. What a shocker. As forewarned earlier this year, the astroturf […]
Pete Kaliner takes his new website out for a test drive with a review of City Manager Curt Walton’s freshly released recommended budget. The highlights: a $1.67-billion total spending plan that sweeps up about $16 million through a revenue neutral pitch, after revaluation, dipping the existing city property tax hit of 45.86-cents by 2-cents per […]
In this case, it consists of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority spreading around thousands of dollars in gifts and perks to Charlotte’s uptown lunch bunch crowd and their enablers and benefactors to further the agenda and interests of the same, at the expense of the rest of us mere mortals, the unwashed masses. This comes […]
