It’s a classic criminal defense attorney strategy, typically employed when the evidence of a case is stacked against your client and particularly potent if even a smattering of that evidence carries the slightest taint. Hence we have accused cop killer Demeatrius Montgomery playing the SODDI card: Some Other Dude Did It. In this case, one […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education this week backed a recommendation from Superintendent Peter Gorman to bank $25 million in new federal funding that’s headed the district’s way, instead of spending it immediately to rehire teachers that lost their jobs because of budget cuts earlier this year. CMS pink-slipped about 400 teachers, but a recent influx […]
Many fine officers, tainted by the inept and/or alleged illegal actions of a few? or is it something more pervasive that goes to a failure of leadership, a command either willing to turn a blind eye toward gross misconduct or incompetence within the department or unable to change a culture that has led to a […]
Would be nice to know how the Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners is feeling about the turbo-charged revenue projections it concocted to beef up the county budget, what with an ongoing commercial sector real estate implosion; home foreclosures in Mecklenburg tops in the state; the Charlotte-area’s average per-capita personal income tumbling nearly […]
Former WBTV ace reporter Mike Cozza, who most recently fell victim to county budget cuts when he was axed as media relations go-to guy for Mecklenburg Parks and Rec, uses an Op-Ed in the uptown paper of record to effectively dismantle the silly notion that a global recession was the main culprit behind Mecklenburg’s budget […]
And smiling the whole way, with officials from the NASCAR Hall of Fame claiming no reasons for concern despite attendance numbers that have failed to keep pace with even lowered expectations. HOF officials had originally ballyhooed a projected 800,000 visitors for the hall’s first year, which was subsequently trimmed to 575K; yet trends show the […]
N.C. Department of Transportation officials have announced that a widening of the south Charlotte parking lot known as I-485, from Johnston Road to South Boulevard, is slated to begin in 2014, a year ahead of the state’s current schedule. That should come as giddy news, except for the inconvenient fact that the widening project was […]
Not in November at the polls; not even Tuesday night by commissioners, when George Dunlap’s motion to put a quarter-cent sales tax up for referendum didn’t even draw a second, much less any debate. But that didn’t prevent Dunlap, a Democrat, from rambling for nearly 10 minutes explaining why he didn’t necessarily support a new […]
In this case the price tag sits at upwards of $9 million, part and parcel of Charlotte’s lunatic obsession to include an affordable housing component in the redevelopment of NoDa’s Mecklenburg Mills. It started back in the early 1990s, when the city approved a $1 million loan to a developer to purchase and rehabilitate the […]
In a case of justice gone awry that’s all too familiar in Mecklenburg County, a violent felon out on parole was back on the streets causing more mayhem. This time it was Zavier Marquis Davis, who police shot during an armed robbery attempt early Friday morning at a Wendy’s restaurant on Park Road. The 25-year-old Davis, […]
