Maybe, or maybe Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, is talking out of both sides of her mouth. From one side, McCaskill is proclaiming bitter disappointment that Charlotte topped St. Louis in the bid to land the 2012 DNC. From the other side, McCaskill is reportedly not only breathing a sigh of relief, but was […]
It’s not clear from this report exactly what prompted Charlotte-Mecklenburg police to launch new “enhanced security measures” for local elected officials, other than some vague reference to recent shootings in Arizona and Florida. How some crazed lunatic opening fire in Arizona and claiming the lives of six people and injuring 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle […]
No shocker here, and officials continue to insist it won’t cost taxpayers a boatload of cash or bring local merchants a ton of headache. We shall see, when any and all paperwork, memorandums of understanding, and agreements between the city and the DNC settle, bringing any possible side deals, subsidies or outright payments from the […]
The request to place a $10 million funding grant for Bright Beginnings on the agenda for next week’s board of commissioners’ meeting, submitted by Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts at the request of Commissioner Vilma Leake, two Democrats, set off an e-mail exchange between several commissioners, in addition to an earlier reply from Republican Commissioner Bill […]
School Board member Rhonda Lennon drew some strange looks at last week’s meeting when she started shooting from the hip with gun metaphors during a budget debate. “We cannot continue to have bullets in our arsenal and not put them in the gun,” Lennon said, supporting a proposal to study the outsourcing of some CMS […]
The Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners is prepping for a push to fork over $10 million to save the Bright Beginnings pre-kindergarten program, via a special grant in addition to any normal operating funding the county provides CMS. It’s slated for discussion at the board’s meeting next week. Below is the […]
Mecklenburg commissioners learned this week that county projections are pointing toward revenues exceeding budget by about $5.4 million for the current fiscal year, a dramatic swing from last February when the county was facing a shortfall of nearly $34 million, leading to steep mid-year budget cuts. “We’re not now looking at any mid-year budget reductions,” […]
There is absolutely no reason for Center City Partners chief Michael Smith to be pocketing $346K-plus a year, other than our city council is loaded with gullible toads lacking spine enough to buck the uptown mafia. That they’re apparently willing to sit there and swallow an arrogantly defensive rationale hustled by Smith, that his uptown […]
From busing, that is. Been a lot of folks wanting an explanation for how CMS would save $4 million in transportation costs by changing bell schedules at more than 100 of the district’s elementary schools. “It expands the window for us to optimize our bus routes,” Ed Shed COO Hugh Hattabaugh told county commissioners last […]
It’s like WikiLeaks, only better. Nobody has to steal any top-secret documents; it’s all out there in the open, at least every other week. What’s amazing is that Mecklenburg Commissioner Vilma Leake, a former school board member, continues to get away with it, year after year dating back several, spouting increasingly inane gibberish from the […]
