The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s board of directors has handpicked PricewaterhouseCoopers to serve as an “independent advisor in support of the Board’s own internal audit, review and assessment of the CRVA’s operating policies and procedures and organizational structure,” according to a memo sent to Mayor Anthony Foxx and Charlotte City Council. Say what? How does […]
Or in the wallet, to be more precise, as Mecklenburg County commissioners unanimously approve a massive rate hike for fees to rent athletic fields. How massive? Try nearly 90 percent in some cases. This from WBTV: The cost of renting athletic fields under the lights at county parks will jump from $22.50 an hour to […]
Some quick takes from the local front on news of Osama bin Laden’s death. First up, Mecklenburg Commissioner Bill James, opining on the burial at sea: I am glad they got the scumbag. News reports say that Obama allowed Osama to get an ‘Islamic burial’. If true that is a big mistake. Osama should not have […]
You know your school board is coming off the rails when its most vocally fiscal conservative member is also its biggest budget buster – at least, in this case, when it comes to jet-setting around the country. Kaye McGarry flew over her travel expense allotment last year, and appears on track for a repeat performance […]
Maybe County Manager Harry Jones will land that Alabama gig before he releases his budget recommendation next month. Otherwise, it sounds like MeckCo taxpayers are in for a big hit. This from WBTV: Wednesday night Mecklenburg’s county manager told WBTV he’s likely to recommend a budget in three weeks that increases the tax burden on […]
A little bit of perspective on the uptown paper’s gushing headline: Six-figure salaries thinning at CMS While the number of educrats pocketing $100,000 or more has shrunk from last year’s total of 104 to this year’s number of 85, let’s take a collective breath of reality and recall that last year’s number represents years of […]
Well, at least parts of it. The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners last night relinquished its right of first refusal to either purchase or lease nearly a dozen institutes of lower learning recently shuttered by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, clearing the way to put the properties up for lease on the open market. Tell me it would […]
Let me get this straight: a heavily redacted report issued by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department identifies a dearth of security staffing at CLT-Douglas airport as a contributing cause in the stow-away death of Delvonte Tisdale, but federal and state funding of nearly a half-million dollars is being used to buy Segways, Harleys, BMWs, and dirt bikes […]
After meeting Monday to discuss how to best handle the latest scandal to rock the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, the tourism group’s board of directors announced it would hire a consultant to review its policies and procedures, or something. They also said they’d hold off renewing the contract of embattled CRVA chieftain Tim Newman, last […]
Wholesale earnings whiff, slashing jobs, and scrambling to stay whole: Jeff Taylor runs down the horror show that has become Bank of America here, here and here. Required reading if you’re at all interested in Charlotte’s future as anything more than a hollow uptown shell adorned with a few glittery baubles as a crown.
