It’s more common seeing pigs flying over the Queen City’s world-class skyline than it is to catch the Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg endorsing a Republican candidate for office; so color me shocked to see Christopher Hailey’s name lumped in with Patrick Cannon and David Howard, two incumbent Democrats, as the BPC’s favored picks for […]
The City of Charlotte is plugged into a contract that requires paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for streetlights that don’t work, leaving taxpayers zapped with a high-voltage shock to the pocketbook. On any given week up to 10 percent of the city’s 80,000 streetlights are inoperable, usually the result of something as […]
At least according to Gallup, which found in a recent poll that “two-thirds of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in their local governments to handle local problems, and a solid majority the same way about their state government.” So how do those confidence and trust numbers hold up for Char-Meck […]
It’s only appropriate that a streetcar plan hatched with the explicit goal of buying votes to help defeat repeal of Charlotte’s half-cent sales tax for transit would, years later, still find itself being used as a handy campaign tool designed to push a purely political agenda. That was the case on Monday, when U.S. Transportation […]
It’s bad enough that less than 3 percent of eligible voters turned out for Charlotte’s primary elections last week; worse still that they managed to elect a lesbian community organizer who got a bulk of her campaign boost from left-wing rouge advocacy groups, apparently has never held a real job and has at least one […]
Incumbent Councilmember Warren Cooksey squares off against challenger Jay Privette in the GOP primary for District 7 on the Charlotte City Council. And it’s for all the marbles – there is no Democrat on the ballot for November’s general election, which means the winner of next Tuesday’s primary will represent the southeast Charlotte district on […]
When payday rolls around for local elected officials, not everyone pockets the same amount of loot. And in at least one case, the dollar disparity has sparked a squabble over what should be considered appropriate compensation for our governing class. It started, as many political dust-ups in Charlotte-Mecklenburg do, with an email from Commissioner Bill […]
Of course he is. With the Charlotte area’s unemployment rate still topping double digits, what else would Mayor Anthony Foxx do except fly to China to help spur local economic development by indulging in some authentic Szechuan chicken, or something. And guess who gets to pay for the trip. Of course you do. Taxpayers are […]
President Obama is taking a lot of flack over jet-setting off for posh Martha’s Vineyards, as the country’s economy crumbles and families and businesses struggle to make ends meet. Personally, I wish a long and leisurely vacation for The One. The busier he stays duffing around the links, the less time he has to tee […]
As the federal government sinks into a growing abyss of debt that has drawn rebuke from Standard & Poor’s rating agency with a national credit downgrade and calls for reduced spending, the Charlotte Area Transit System is seeking upwards of $63 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. If the grant applications […]
