The kind that makes you laugh until you cry: the vaunted Future of the Library Task Force reports that merging some of the library system’s departments could only save about $290,000 a year, which is just a pinch more than the $225,000 being spent on – wait for it – the task force’s budget. Yes, […]
The governor of New York gets slapped with a hefty fine for accepting free tickets to a World Series game; Mecklenburg County commissioners and Charlotte city councilmembers continue to receive “free” tickets to the annual CIAA basketball tourney, after greasing the skids by doling out $400K a year of your tax dollars to the CIAA. […]
Here’s a piece of good news: CMS students not making headlines for brawls. Quite the opposite in fact, where over at Olympic High you’ve got students up at the crack of dawn, braving wintry weather to drive to school and wrap gifts they collected for kids at Hidden Valley Elementary, as part of their Homelessness […]
This was supposed to be headed in exactly the opposite direction, right. I mean according to Gov. Bev, the state’s spending spree on business incentive bribes is supposed to be creating new jobs left and right. Not so much. The ESC numbers released today show just how brutal November was on the jobless front with […]
In other news, CMS boosters say CMS is awesome. Really, what did we expect a study of Mecklenburg County parks, commissioned by the county parks and recreation department and conducted by a conservation group that supports parks, to say? The only outcome more certain and preordained than the results of the Trust for Public Land’s […]
A 16-year-old Air Force JROTC student apparently eludes airport security at Charlotte-Douglas International, climbs into the wheel well of a US Airways jet bound for Boston, and plummets to his death from the sky over that city. A Massachusetts prosecutor investigating the case calls it a “major breach of security,” while Charlotte airport director Jerry […]
WBTV is reporting that former CMPD Detective Arvin Fant – he of the plagiarized, lost and destroyed notes that deep-sixed the death penalty in the trial of convicted cop-killer Demeatrius Montgomery – has been suspended without pay, pending a termination hearing before the Civil Service Board. Meanwhile, former rouge cop Marcus Jackson is due in […]
Bracing for the looming budget season, library leaders have already begun rolling out dire scenarios that warn of multiple branch closings and layoffs if the county doesn’t come off the hip with at least flat funding. This from a library system that saw its budget reduced by $10 million this year, but still received $21 […]
You have to absolutely appreciate the Machiavellian timing on the release of a task force report that finds the city’s public safety plan “financially unsustainable without large budget cuts or increased taxes,” coming as it does well after elected officials, city government and the uptown media and power structure successfully convinced voters that we could […]
Seems a palace coup is in the works on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, according to this report from WBTV’s Steve Crump that has Democrats squabbling over whether Jennifer Roberts, the top at-large vote getter in November’s election, should remain chairman of the board. Harold Cogdell, the board’s incumbent vice chair who placed third […]
