In traffic and criminal citations, that is, which were issued over the holiday’s “Booze It and Lost It” campaign. That’s no real surprise, what with greater Char-Meck being the state’s most populous area and all; stands to reason we’d have the largest number of citations. Another convenient explanation, though, might come down to straight economics, […]
This is definitely not the kind of news that Mayor Anthony Foxx and the uptown crowd clawing desperately to land the DNC in Charlotte want floating around the country. It was strange and disturbing enough when reports first surfaced that Delvonte Tisdale had fallen to his death from an airplane over Boston, after breaching security […]
What happens when city and county governments shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in lucrative salaries and bonuses to justify luring the supposedly “best and brightest” away from the private sector? Bad things happen. Take three high-profile cases from Charlotte’s entertainment circus as prime examples: the NASCAR Hall of Fame, Bojangles’ Coliseum, and Ovens […]
UPDATE: Gee, imagine that Pete Gorman & Co. must be hitting the crack pipe extra hard these days if they think there won’t be a huge backlash for using Jan. 17 as a snow make-up day, as the district’s website currently indicates is the intent. Gotta wonder what genius in CMS’ platinum-plated PR Department gave this […]
You might recall last year when Commissioner Vilma Leake proclaimed that Mecklenburg County had its own fire department (it doesn’t) and expressed confusion over why volunteer firefighters are being paid for their volunteer service (they aren’t). Or when Leake let slip that she considered business incentive grants the equivalent of a personal slush fund to help […]
And right on cue, Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts floats warnings about how it might be impossible to avoid a tax increase as part of the reval process, given the dramatic cuts looming for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. And now along comes Mayor Anthony Foxx, with a crafty piece of politicking that pitches a plan having the city […]
Leftist politicians know they’re successful when they can get people to not only accept, but also rejoice having their rights stripped away, accompanied by the expansion of government control. Such is the case this month for Mecklenburg County, where the public policy police were in town to help the masses celebrate the one-year anniversary of […]
Mr. Anthony Foxx is the mayor of Charlotte. He tells the voters it is important to consolidate Charlotte and Mecklenburg County government. He is a lawyer. What is wrong with this picture? Over the years Charlotte and Mecklenburg have consolidated a number of functions. Not all of them have been a great success, but for […]
Less than a month after surviving a coup to unseat her as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat, is back to playing party politics and stirring up partisan ploys. Roberts earlier this month hatched an idea to send a letter of support and thanks to Congressional members of Mecklenburg’s […]
What could possibly go wrong? I mean aside from having two dysfunctional government entities merged into one with more consolidated power and authority, more and greater reach and scope, and more sprawling bureaucracy with less transparency and efficiency? City/County consolidation, despite professions to the contrary, isn’t about saving taxpayer dollars by shrinking government, at least […]
