UPDATE: The Board of Education voted Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, to scuttle plans for shuttering Chantilly and Highland. ———————– From Sept. 30: I’m not saying Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ latest plans of upheaval for continuous improvement have anything to do with social engineering. Here’s what I’m saying: Chantilly Elementary and Highland Mill Elementary are two Montessori schools […]
Like, I don’t know, congenital lying; how else to explain the complete disconnect between statements being made by Superintendent Peter Gorman and top CMS brass, in the wake of the hand grenade recommendations lobbed in the public’s lap to close a dozen schools and ensure wholesale upheaval at scores more. First we have Gorman on […]
Another shiny new thing for uptown! And judging by the packed-house attendance at a community forum to update progress on Charlotte’s streetcar project, the excitement and anticipation is palpable. Check out the video from News 14. And it’s evident that our city’s braintrust not only remains completely clueless about where to find $1.5 million to […]
After weeks of testimony and evidence, prosecutors today rested their case against accused cop-killer Demetrius Montgomery; and moments later the defense did the same. Without even putting on a case. Closing arguments from both sides are expected to start tomorrow. This from WBTV: Judge Bridges decided Tuesday afternoon that the jury will be able to […]
I just showed at the Speak Out Charlotte studios and walked in the door with… Harold Cogdell? Looks like the democrats have had a change of heart. More to come… Indeed, for a debate scheduled to begin at 7:00pm, at 6:10pm Speak Out Charlotte was made aware that the Democrat incumbents had had a change […]
Democrat commissioners have pulled out of participating in a debate that was scheduled for tonight at the Access 21 studio of Speak Out Charlotte. We’ll have more as details become available. Here’s the presser issued by the three debate-dodging Democrats: Democratic Mecklenburg County Commissioners Dan Murrey, Jennifer Roberts and Harold Cogdell, Jr. have declined to participate […]
Speak Out Charlotte is still soliciting questions to ask at-large county commission candidates in their debate, slated for 7:00 tonight. Submit questions via Facebook – search “Speak Out Charlotte – 2010 County Debate Questions”. UPDATE: Never mind. Be quiet, citizen. Pay your taxes and move along.
Mecklenburg County’s jobless numbers budged slightly in August, dropping the unemployment rate to 10.5 percent from July’s 10.8 percent, with the county totaling 413,945 jobs compared to the previous month’s 411,416. The incremental good news is tempered, though, when compared to earlier in the year, when Mecklenburg totaled just shy of 415,000 jobs with an […]
Prosecutors in the Demetrius Montgomery case are slowly laying the bricks to create a path around the reasonable doubt standard and, they hope, straight to a life sentence for the 2007 slayings of police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. The latest: testimony that gunshot residue was present on Montgomery’s palms; an empty holster and […]
The Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday night voted to reaffirm the county’s existing “Buy American” policy, which was originally adopted in 1985 and gives preference in purchasing American-made supplies except when they would cost more than the lowest qualified bidder or when the quality of material doesn’t meet desired […]
