County commissioners last week approved the officially adopted budget for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, but not without some unexpected squabbling that started and ended with Commissioner Vilma Leake. Leake, a Democrat, was irked that CMS officials and her own board colleagues have never attended a meeting of an ad hoc committee, chaired by Leake, designed to facilitate […]
Reports of irregularities with straight party voting are coming in from across the country. Claims have been made that voters attempting to select a straight party Republican ballot have seen the names of the Democrats running checked instead. This isn’t isolated to Florida and Chicago. It could be happening right here in Mecklenburg County. PunditHouse received this […]
Alternate Headline: Making Stuff Up As They Go Along. Seriously, how else to explain the eleventh-hour, complete about-face Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is pulling with the latest revision to its ongoing Case for Continuous Upheaval? Schools Chief Peter Gorman and top CMS staff now say they plan to close Harding High School, instead of Waddell. The details […]
So says the grassroots, good-government advocacy group StrengthenCharlotte, offering a plethora of compelling reasons for why voters should reject the city’s $204-million bond ask at the polls. The real surprise: an across-the-board thumbs-down on all three bond fronts, which appear on ballots as individual issues: $157 million for transportation; $32 million for neighborhood improvement; and […]
Superintendent Peter Gorman could have used part or all of a $250,000 grant he received earlier this year, from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, to help plug a funding gap for school athletics, or to buy some new books for kids, or training for teachers, or – heck, just about anything. The grant money, which was […]
Got this handy-dandy new vote tracker in an email yesterday from the good folks at the Civitas Institute. It’s a nifty way to keep pace with running totals on a daily basis, for anybody without anything better to do like, I don’t know, watching the Rangers clobber the Yankees. According to the Civitas tracker, we […]
Just for the record, and because I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, Turning Point Academy, the home of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ exploding pen, is the friendlier, PR-manufactured moniker for what used to be called Derita Alternative, a facility for students that have run into serious discipline problems at other schools. That said, Turning Point Academy […]
This most certainly isn’t designed to add insult to injury, but sometimes politicians are so over the top that by not pointing it out we would be doing a disservice to you, our readers. This Facebook event was created just a few days ago. It is a call for voters to turn out on Election […]
Transit tax revenue is on the decline, but the good folks at Charlotte Area Transit System are still sitting pretty, even as they hike bus fares. Sitting better than pretty, actually, flush with nearly $1 million worth of new office furniture. The city council this week approved an $897,173 contract for the purchase and installation […]
Corey Thompson, by his own admission, is a political novice. But that hasn’t stopped the young gun Republican from drawing down and taking dead aim at Democrat incumbent Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts. Thompson, who is running for an at-large seat on the county board, this week called for Roberts to reprimand her Democrat cohorts for […]
