Interesting sidebar to the uptown EpiCentre foreclosure and how it could directly impact your wallet when the county comes knocking next year with its property revaluation, and by extension bode ominously for the county’s continuing financial implosion. Jeff Taylor lays out how Afshin Ghazi, delinquent last year on paying EpiCentre’s $600,000 property tax bill, was […]
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.” The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value […]
Charlotte’s switch this week to a single-stream recycling system, replete with 310,000 giant, green rollout bins and new collection schedules, apparently threw quite a few residents for a loop. City officials report that the 311 call center was positively deluged by folks with questions and concerns. On the first day that trucks rolled with the […]
It could be coming down the pike. Commissioners on Tuesday night agreed to discuss at their next meeting placing a quarter-cent sales tax referendum on November’s ballot. The idea was pitched by Commissioner George Dunlap, who said he wants any revenue raised through the new tax to be used to fund public libraries. The board […]
In the wake of a police-involved shooting at Timber Ridge apartments, the uptown paper of record ran a story that highlighted some residents’ complaints that a heavy police presence in the troubled apartment complex, aimed at reducing crime, “can sometimes feel like harassment and increase tensions.” The criticisms come after police there Thursday pursued and […]
Maybe if Charlotte lands the Democratic National Convention, the Queen City can finally drop the pesky N.C. from its national moniker. And really, wouldn’t that alone be enough for the uptown lunch bunch to throw gobs of money at the effort – what Mayor Anthony Foxx predicts as upwards of $45 million to meet the […]
It now appears that Mecklenburg County will have to plug at least a $4.1-million gap in its recently approved budget, courtesy of the state withholding lottery revenue from counties. The latest from a memo County Manager Harry Jones sent today to commissioners: Obviously, one of the major questions is the impact of reduced State appropriation […]
What are the latest honey pots of political patronage worth these days in Mecklenburg County? No chump change, according to the most recent disclosure of compensation for members of various advisory boards, ranging from the high profile and controversial ABC Board to the more mundane zoning board of adjustments. Advocates of advisory boards contend they […]
In another round of begging for crumbs when they’ve historically grown accustomed to cake, the library system has landed an additional $730,000 to help restock a budget that was slashed nearly in half for the upcoming fiscal year. The newest loot comes from the small towns of Mecklenburg County, where officials agreed this week to […]
They’re not officially running as a slate, but they sure sounded on the same page. Republican candidates for the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners at a Thursday afternoon presser blasted the board’s current Democrat majority for fiscal irresponsibility that has left taxpayers tapped and derelict management that has led Mecklenburg into perilous straits. At-large candidates […]
