The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority’s two top chief executives will be performing their high-flying, tourism-attracting circus act without a safety net for the immediate future. “We wanted to let everyone know that the CRVA Board has decided that with the expiration of their contracts at the end of June, Tim Newman and Mike Crum will […]
Center City boosters and CharMeck police chieftains are heralding the success of Monday night’s July Fourth celebration, which managed to avoid a repeat of the melee that produced more than 70 arrests and one shooting death in the wake of last month’s Speed Street festival. Police reported only four arrests associated with the July Fourth […]
A headline in the editorial pages of the uptown paper says: EpiCentre officials are hurt by their own silence. The implication is direct: What has downtown Charlotte done now? One reads on and discovers the focus to be the recent arrest of Phillip Agnew at the EpiCentre. It turns out the editorial is a reprint […]
A divided city council on Monday night voted to withhold nearly $10 million in funding for the embattled Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, while simultaneously agreeing to provide the tourism booster group with $1.7 million for “business development purposes,” to be disbursed at the discretion of the city manager, and $800,000 in immediate funding to sustain […]
GOP mayoral candidate Scott Stone says Charlotte can add 35,000 private-sector jobs to its work force by cutting taxes by $72 million, reducing the cost and scope of government while improving its efficiency, and sidetracking a streetcar to nowhere – along with implementing an assortment of other key initiatives that he unveiled this week with […]
Maybe. Maybe not. But in the parlance of the intelligence world, let’s connect some dots: Charlotte lands the DNC in February; two months later, surveillance cameras catch a man in a restricted area along the Lynx Blue light-rail line, which runs into the heart of uptown and what will be DNC 2012 command central. The […]
Or is it the other way around? Hard to tell, not that it really matters; either way, the spin will be flying hot and heavy as Mayor Anthony Foxx steps up today to, once again, shill for the Obama Administration. This time around Foxx has been invited to a photo opp to speak with President […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx is stomping his feet and gnashing teeth that a $25,000 audit of the CRVA conducted by the CRVA with PricewaterhouseCoopers tagging along for the ride, has produced little but empty words. Literally. The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority today released a two-and-a-half page missive, penned by a CRVA board member, that is supposed […]
Mayor Anthony Foxx and Police Chief Rodney Monroe used the better part of an hour yesterday trying to explain why the riot that rocked uptown and resulted in 70 arrests, one shooting fatality and one shooting injury was not, in fact, a riot. Or a melee. Or any other moniker that might give the uptown […]
Charlotte’s gang problem isn’t really a gang problem, more like a version of the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family living under one roof, according to Police Chief Rodney Monroe, who offered this stunning evaluation of the local crime scene in the wake of the mob riot that erupted uptown, leaving one dead, one wounded, 70 […]
